I prefer to travel with the smallest cameras in order to minimize hazzle, be able to bring them everywhere, without loosing them, getting bothered by them or getting targeted for thefts.
The photos up to August 2002 are taken with a tiny, simple Fujifilm Tiara 1000ix APS compact camera. Unfortunately it broke gradually down, ending with complete failure in August. When I send it to the repair, hoping to get it fixed on the warranty, they claimed that the camera had suffered "severe treatment" and by the way was full of sand. I wonder why! Anyway, no money back...
And then bought a small Olympus Mju II (no-APS) which I used for the rest of the photos (it it still alive at the time of writing!) I have to say that I preferred the pictures from the Fujifilm though.
The photos are scanned and brought to screen with no retouching and a very minimum of clipping. After all, I have better things to do than to fiddle with these details (like travelling! :)
...all the above until December 2003. Finally I went digital. Canon Digital Ixus 400. Wow. I will NEVER use a roll-based camera again........
Two years of jungle, dust, cold etc. meant the end of the Ixus 400. However, why change a winning formula. From start of 2006: Canon Digital Ixus 55. Keep it small. The ice took the Ixus 55. An Ixus 70 followed. After a wet kayak tour it was time for an Ixus 100, and so on.