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A further search suggests the Sony ZV-1 might be a pretty good fit, would take care of the microphone issue, and would leave a few £ left over for other bits of gear.

Interesting - thanks Phil! This COMPLETELY changes the situation :-) She might not need a new camera at all.  Your best bet for your granddaughter might be to get her some gear that will allow her ...

Can you say a bit more about the project that needs to be photographed? And maybe why she might want something better than simply using her mobile phone? (Is she already an avid maker and sharer ...

I echo what yardcoyote said about trying your zoom at some fixed FLs.  Also, browse through your favourite pictures and see what that tells you about FLs you like, or might not have tried yet. Here ...

I'm not sure whether you want a wider angle as well as, or instead of, the 35mm. If 'instead' then 27mm could be OK for you, but still not very much wider in practical terms .. the perspective will ...

Hello, I've been using C1 for a year or two (on a Mac, processing Fuji RAFs) and recently changed from Catalog from Session workflow, which I like a lot. Except .... I import some images into a ...

Film sim is a variable that you can set in a saved custom setup, but doesn’t carry the rest of the custom setup with it. If you select C1 and it has shadow -4 with Velvia, then if you choose Pro ...

Great images ... boats make really good foreground interest for WA shots like this!

I have a Carl Zeiss Jena 135 and I like it, but the purple fringes are an issue and it takes some effort to get sharp ling distance results (eg landscapes). A 135 f4 as sharp as the Leica Tele ...

Happy spouse = happy life! (Whichever gender is the one buying the lenses...) My wonderful wife tolerates lens purchases with equanimity (in fact she egged me on to get the Samyang 12mm f/2 last ...

Another vote for the 10-24 from me. And for zooms as a specific landscape tool Why 10-24? Because 16 is not wide enough! Why zooms?  Not for ‘getting it all in’ but for changing the composition. ...

I came to Fuji from Canon, and I loved my zooms, but I succumbed to the Fuji 'cult of primes' and I hardly use my zooms any more. One of the benefits of primes is that they are light weight. ...

Yeah!  I paid about the same for my Zeiss - works pretty well for compressed landscapes, and although sharpness at very very long distances falls off a bit, lots of mid distance shots look great:

Congratulations! I moved from Canon to Fuji 18 months ago, for the same reasons as you, and I’m very happy with the outcome. When the X-S10 came out, I thought ‘darn that would have been my ideal ...

Well, the OP doesn't seem to be looking for more IQ (that word 'upgrade' spooked us there I think!) but something more compact / lighter weight. I switched from Canon (DSLR) for exactly that reason ...

I'm not convinced you need the 200mm end of the zoom, just to get better subject separation for portraits (unless you are OK taking pictures from the other side of the street!). I'm also not ...

Hmmm I'm not a birder, but I have enjoyed taking the occasional opportunistic bird shot. For me birding is almost as much of an 'attractor' as astrophotography, ie if you get deeply into it, it is ...

Lovely shots, and great colours, even with the help of the Velvia film sim :-).  In fact I'd say that the fact those images all have nicely balanced colours SOOC in all those different film sims ...

I will just say that I learned to use MF in a rather backwards way, and it's part of my photography repertoire that I now really enjoy. I bought into Fuji X as a former Canon EOS shooter, and at ...