Digital photography

I'm looking to buy a reasonably good little point-and-shoot, does anyone have any recommendations?

I'm doing my master's in industrial design so I have to take a lot of photos of card/clay models, some from reasonably close-up and also from extreme angles. I want something with around an f2.8, around 28mm minimum focal length, and small enough to fit easily in a pocket. Not bothered about full manual control. I want to spend about £250.

I've got a couple of SLRs but I have to take a lot of photos at short notice, and they're too big to carry around with me. My phone camera is pretty pants at anything but landscape photography.

Also I don't like this obsession with optical zoom that point-and-shoot cameras have, like that advert on TV that shows one with 18x optical zoom. Who's ever going to use that on a pocket camera? Does anyone manufacture a pocket digital with a prime lens?

Ahem. I was too lazy to put it on the 'bay so it's still around.