I've been thinking about buying a digital camera for a while now. I'm interested in a camera where I can manually set the exposure settings. I had a Samsung for many years where you could set A/S/M, and I loved that feature. But I don't need a high end camera.

I asked in a photostore and they recommended the OLYMPUS SP-560UZ. It looks like a good camera, and has the things I want, but is a bit big.

So, my question for all the photo-geeks is: Is it really a good camera, or might there be other similar cameras that are smaller?