Camera recommendation

muleymaddness · Dec 15, 2012

Can someone recommend a camera for me? Historically, I just use the camera for a point and shoot camera. And that's what I'll use this next for the bulk of the time. But I'd like to be able to take it up a notch if I wanted to start playing with the settings, etc. So basically something between a point and shoot camera and an advanced camera. I like it to be small to fit in my pocket easily. Zoom isn't that big of a deal - I can set it to take pictures through my spotter or binoculars if need be. Thanks for your help!

c3 · Dec 17, 2012

Pocketable camera's that have good manual options with a decent size sensor is a tough catagory.

Take a look at the Sony RX100. It's a large sensor fixed lens cam with awesome video capability and should allow some pretty fancy manual work. Can't use it through your spotter though as the lens is too big and see's the whole eye piece rather than through it like the smaller sensor cams traditionally used in something like the tines up scopecam set up.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/869238-REG/Sony_DSC_RX100_Digital_Camera.html

Cheers,
Pete

legacy · Dec 23, 2012

Have you looked at the Panasonic Lumix cameras? They have Leika lenses and are great little cameras imo.

Feleno · Dec 23, 2012

Does the new FZ200 have digital zoom on top of the optical zoom?

legacy · Dec 23, 2012

>Does the new FZ200 have digital
>zoom on top of the
>optical zoom?

I have never seen any spec that says it has any digital zoom. I think the 24X is all optical, but i could be wrong. That's a question that I'd like to know for sure.

Feleno · Dec 24, 2012

Digital zoom is almost a must for long range photos. They won't be of great quality but it'd still be nice to get 'bad' pictures at several hundred yards, something you can't do with 24X optical only.