I llke the picture. I have several of these. I avoid compasses that don't have adjustable declination, since at times I am math-challenged and I don't like drawing true-north lines on my maps. I REALLY wish all USGS Topo maps had UTM lines pre-drawn. What a pain!!!

My favorite simple baseplate compass is the Suunto M-3 Leader, which I think is the clear compass in the upper right of your picture. For the last several years, we've given Suunto Leaders to our Webelos when then graduate to Boy Scouts. Fantastic compass for around $20 ($19.25 at forestry-suppliers.com).

I also have the fancy Brunton Eclipse 8099 compass in the upper left. It is pretty amazing - very accurate sighting, but when using without the rubber boot, the boot & cards are kind of obnoxious. It is my favorite when working with a GPS. I also have a Brunton 15TDCL, which is the former Silva Ranger compass, but find the Eclipse easier to do sight bearings with. Overall though the 15TDCL does seem much more rugged than the Eclipse 8099

FYI - the compass sold outside the U.S. as the Silva Ranger is sold in the U.S. as the Brunton 15TDCL. The Compass sold in the U.S. as the Silva Ranger is actually made by Suunto. The mirrored compass in the middle looks like a Ranger cousin.

I also have the Bruton Eclipse GPS compass, which is the competitor to the Suunto GPS compass that is in the lower right corner of your picture.

I'm a huge fan of using a combination of map, compass, and GPS. Here is my method, which I haven't read too much about. Only really in a book called GPS Land Navigation, by Michael Ferguson (nice book though the GPS guide is a bit dated).

To figure out where you are, get UTM coordinate from GPS, use Topo Map and UTM grid () to locate position on map.

To figure out how to go to point X, use map & UTM grid to identify coordinate of X, enter it into GPS (easiest to do that via PC at home, but not bad in the field), get bearing & distance to X from GPS, use compass to follow bearing and sometimes to determine proximity to X. I never leave the GPS on while hiking. It only gets turned on when I want to get a position.

If the batteries on the GPS dies, I can always flip back to the older map/compass methods.