LorneBMT

I'm thinking of making the jump from compacts to mirrorless, and am struck by the extent to which kits in Canada seem to have fairly sizeable zooms. Based on my (limited so far) experience with a ...

Gotta say, as I find myself thinking of leaving compacts behind (repeated sensor dust issues with my Canons, which I hear is fairly common with Ricoh as well) for  mirrorless instead, I still keep ...

Thanks again, Chris. Some really good food for thought, here.

Interesting response, Chris222.  Thanks.  I'd actually been looking at it. Mirrorless is a language I'm only now starting to speak, and what I say below may reveal that, but here I go... I'm ...

Thanks for all of this, Keith. You certainly make a strong case for mirrorless.  Someone's giving me his Sony A6000 to try for a while, so I can get a feeling for it.  Even though it's an APS-C, I ...

Thanks very much, Mina. If I continue with compacts, I'll definitely be looking at keeping them out of my pocket, so I appreciate the case and belt loop suggestions. Lorne

Hey there. For the second time in about ten years, I’ve had a Canon compact go down with dust on the sensor (first it was my S95, and now it’s the g9x II). Unless I can find someone to charge me ...

OP again... Tried to remove my post, as I realize I asked basically the same question a couple of years ago, when the problem first occurred with the g9x II, but was unable to.  Hadn't realized it ...

Hey there, That's two high-end compacts, two cameras with dust-on-the-sensor issues. First it was my Canon S95 (though I found a guy who was able to fix it for not too much money), and just ...