Our daughter is going to Greece in March, and doesn't want to take her
Nikon DSLR. She'd like to get a compact for the trip. She borrowed my
Fuji for a couple of days and decided she'd be better off with a cheap
P&S. No RAW, but she'd rather have an easy-to-use P&S without that,
so she's doing the right thing and checking out cameras in stores that
she can handle before buying.
Consider something like the Panasonic GX7, excellent quality and "last
year's" model, so lower cost. The compact models can have lens issues
if very wide-range zoom. A good phone camera can now take excellent
quality pictures, with limited zoom, of course.

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Cheers,
David
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