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An excellent AA battery P&S with full manual controls

Started Mar 10, 2017 | User reviews thread
0lf
0lf Senior Member • Posts: 1,284
Re: An excellent AA battery P&S with full manual controls

Humansvillian wrote:

We had a Nikon D3000 that we never used, before the PASM dial on the Canon SX150IS inspired me to learn what all that PASM business onnthe dial was about.

The Nikon DSLR would still be in a drawer, and we'd have not had 4 MFT cameras, if I hadn't taken up the photography habit.

And if a casual user wants to use his cheap point and shoot on Auto,,,that's good.

These are not for pros. They are for starter cameras.

Your personal experience does not make a generality. The reality of the market show that people don't want low end P&S anymore, even with PASM. The reality is that even when a camera has PASM, it is often use in auto, and the lower end it is, the more it is use in auto. The reality is that even mid range smartphones have similar photo ability than low end P&S, except for zoom, and today have gained raw support and sharing so are better tools for creativity and to draw interest. The reality is that with such low potential market share, the profitability threshold price is much higher than before.

There is a lot of good reason manufacturer stop making such cameras. They are not relevant anymore.

edit : if we call such cameras P&S and not PASM, it is because A mode and M mode serve no purpose on small sensor with narrow aperture cameras

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