Best AutoFocus on P&S Digi

A couple of years back, I switched from an old housed film SLR, (n90s in ikelite), to try a P&S digi. I got a canon G3 in an ike housing.

So many things to love about it. The picture quality is fine, the exposure is good, the immediate feedback of the image and histogram is great, the small size and weight is wonderful.

But the auto focus sucks. In fact, I haven't even wanted to use it, since missing one of the best shots of my life, in a quite bright, clear, high contrast situation, but moving subject, and waiting for 3 or 4 seconds, while the stupid camera refused to focus, and refused to focus, while my subject went slowly bye-bye.

Is there any P&S digi yet, that has dramatically better auto focus?

Anyone able to do any comparisons?

Thanks,

Don

Camera's that will let you select the focus point are generally better. The Nikon Coolpix series has had this for years. The Olympus series x0x0's have just added this with the 5050 I believe.

I was always pretty happy with the AF on my Coolpix 990

With that said, with the dramatic DOF on consumer digicams, you can also preset the focus in manual if you are shooting wideangle - perhaps set it to 1'

Cheers

James