Originally Posted by Astronomical
What's your budget? In my opinion, Panasonic makes the best bang-for-buck cameras. They're expensive but produce excellent images due to Leica glass and a decent CCD. I think there's a new slim Lumix 6.1MP that should be great because it's basically just a mini version of my camera, which I love. (I use it for B&W because I feel that it puts out better images than my AT-1 with Tri-X or even low grain film, which I now use mostly with color film.)
I also agree with this, the deciding factor being the Leica lens... basically the finest lens in the world in my opinion... at least in 35mm film stock, if the digital lens matches the film stock equivalent it is worth the expense.