What is the best pound for pound 1080 HD compatible compact photo camera on the market today?

In my experience the Panasonic TZ10 delivers excellent results at a very modest price.

Still use my old faithful Sony T-10 as a shirt pocket camera and it never let me down. The feel of quality and performance of the high end Sony range never fails to please. But having said that I have no experience of their 1080 HD compatible compacts.

The Fuji compacts and bridge cameras always impressed me with their low light and low noise capabilities, but again I have no first hand experience of their latest models. I find the specs of the Fuji 550 EXR very tempting though.

Strange you should be leaning towards a Sony, that is the only manufactured which I have had undesirable experience......enough said.

Value -wise Fuji would give you the most features and company wise they stand behind their product-based on personal experience.

Canon will probably be more costly feature wise but a great product never-the-less!

Nikon in their less than DSLR's ($500.00 and up) are not as desirable as their more robust DSLR's.