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Travel + small kids, minimizing from 550d

Started Feb 14, 2014 | Polls thread
OP dr567 New Member • Posts: 22
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.

That's for 1 week.  The rest of the time, it has to handle indoor kid candids.

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.

I should have mentioned budget is in the $500-800 range (depending on how much I can get for my dslr gear).  So a GX1mk2 would be the max and the RX-10 is out.

Since I posted this, I've also been going round and round between going to a small MFT system (panasonic gm1), to the rx100 (mk1), etc.  Analysis paralysis.

Thanks again.

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Canon EOS 550D Canon EF 35mm F2.0 Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
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