My wife's film cam is dying.  It is honestly too old and worn to consider repair.  She wants a digital and I need advice! Sure, it is generally the newbie to photography wanting advice on a camera and I do use two Nikon DSLR's. 

So, I know those cameras quite well but **what I do not know is the non DSLR digital cameras on the market today.

If you use a good quality NON DSLR digital camera**, one with manual over rides and hopefully a choice of aperture and shutter priority...and with a decent zoom (but need not be excessive), please tell me about your camera.  I need to get the wife a new camera before our Thanksgiving holiday on the last Thursday of this month.  **When it comes to what is out there today in fine quality non-dslr cameras, I am wandering in a fog.

**Help!    Thanks a bunch.      Tom.