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Mark, my post on the 9th of August shows what can be done photographing the Milky Way with the right compact digital camera. I purchased it second hand for $150, so you don't have to spend much. You've just got to choose one with full manual control. This one also has a CCD sensor and not a CMOS sensor which most seem to have. It helps with sensitivity and colour. The shot was taken just on a tripod and so I had to shoot it at 1600 iso to reduce the time to 15 seconds to prevent star trailing but if you can mount it to a tracker of some kind you'd achieve much better results by decreasing the iso and increasing the time.
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