If you are lucky, and patience, even with a simple point-and-click camera, you will be able to catch a lightning.

Here are the original Exif data for the picture: Camera: Canon, Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500), Aperture: f/2.2, Focal Length: 7.2 mm, Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV, Flash: Flash did not fire, Compressed Bits per Pixel: 5 bits, Exposure Mode: Manual.

It is frustrating, and almost futile, to try to capture lightnings with a point-and-shoot camera. But with some luck, you should be able to capture one or the tail end of one.

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What I do normally, is to set the camera either in manual more or in shutter-priority mode. Then I set it to continuous shooting, press the shutter halfway and pointed it towards the sky where lightnings normally occur.

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Then, as soon as the lightning strikes, I would press the shutter all the way, hoping that the camera had somehow captured the light. You need a lot of guesswork though. The pictures here are an example of my own guesswork.