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Travel + small kids, minimizing from 550d

Started Feb 14, 2014 | Polls thread
phazelag
phazelag Veteran Member • Posts: 3,376
Re: Travel + small kids, minimizing from 550d

OpticsEngineer wrote:

"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.

The Sony RX10 is water resistant, but the stylus is not.  But the Stylus 1 looks cool.

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