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Travel + small kids, minimizing from 550d

Started Feb 14, 2014 | Polls thread
OpticsEngineer Veteran Member • Posts: 7,822
Re: Travel + small kids, minimizing from 550d

"I'm going on a fishing trip to Alaska this summer"

Well in the land of the midnight sun, I guess you don't need to worry much about low light performance.

I would look for water proof though.   You said small was important.    I think maybe an Olympus Stylus 1 (small, I think it is water resistant)     SX50 is reasonably small too though.  My SX40 fits in the pocket of my ski jacket.    Consider a Sony RX10 though too (water resistant.)   Much larger sensor and I expect better image quality than an SX50, but without the long zoom range of course.

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