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What's the best pocket camera?
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Adam-T
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They're a LOT better than the 1:2.5" Canons (which currently with the most interesting features in Canon's range) but High ISOs and Aperture Priority are all the F31 has - the camera itself is boring with a weak slow lens range, severe PF issues, NO in-camera adjustments for sharpness, saturation, contrast etc, awful metering (the F30 was the best for metering and that was flawed too), poorer build (mode dial, zoom lever design etc) and a battery system which charges in camera..
That excellent SCCD was always wasted on the Fxx series and when they finally stuck it in a bridge cam, the, superb S6500, they mercilessley crippled it
.. Fuji are even more stupid than Canon and Olympus sometimes - and that's saying something. The nicest camera in that range is the F11, it has a Plexiglass protected LCD, takes longer life batteries and has a solid mode dial - all they needed to do was stick the F30 imaging engine in that, use the lens from the E series (which had more range) and add the Exp Comp button & LCD which would be in the F30, put in adjustments (even the F11 should have had that) and throw in an external charger but they didn't ..--
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jimjim2111
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If the new 25mm panasonic isn't good enough for Mr Ralf, it isn't good enough for me either! Not in this "not caring about money" travel camera thread.
So I wish to change my choice and will now choose the smallest dSLR body I can find with a pancake lens. It won't be tiny but not so enormous either. It won't zoom but it'll crop fine, take great landscapes and street shots and it'll cope with unfamiliar foreign lighting conditions.
Money's no issue so if it's too bulky I'll chuck it away and use fun cameras.
RayUK
Veteran Member
and you may come to the same conclusion as me that this incredibly cheap camera gives everything you could want from a (largish) pocketable camera. Just hold the grip and see why it knocks the stuffing out of the ixus range.
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Adam-T
Veteran Member
You could say the same about the A720IS compared to the A570IS, it's only a little bigger - then the A650IS over the A720IS which is only a little bigger and when you've finished you're holding a 1DS Mk3 with a 28-300L on the end ;-) ..
It's a shame but the only way to combine Wide and Canon IQ in a Pocket camera is an Ixus (If you want wide that is) - and if you want an OVF as well, an out of date 7Mp Ixus (the 850) as the S80 developed into the 35mm startpoint G7 .. The only A series cam wider than 35mm is the poxy old 3Mp A300 with no zoom which was 32mm .. and there are no pocket Fujis with wide and their SCCD quality...
Shame that the most interesting cams have the worst IQ (Pan, Oly and Ricoh) and the best two for IQ by a mile (Canon and Fuji) have generally the most boring lens ranges and no waterproofers
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