I found the Casio Exilim EX-V7 to be a very nice pocket travel camera. The full range of exposure controls, 7x optical zoom lens, and anti shake system made it possible to get almost any kind of photo I wanted. And it was no trouble to keep the camera with me all of the time.

This photo has had some fairly heavy adjustment using masked Photoshop adjustment layers. The important thing to note is that the shadow and highlight details were all in the file so that I could get what I wanted out of it.