which bridge camera

P

Paul_W

Messages
151
Edit My Images
No
a friend of mine managed to lose his canon G11 whilst on holiday, and has a budget upto £450 to replace it.

A G12 is on thought at the moment, but would also like it to have a longer magnification zoom on it

any suggestions please
 
he doesn't want a slr,i did suggest that but would like something the size of the canon G series
 
How about those Fuji bridge camera? HS series. They have crazy optical zooms, about 750mm at the top end.

Riz :)
 
Paul_W said:
a friend of mine managed to lose his canon G11 whilst on holiday, and has a budget upto £450 to replace it.

A G12 is on thought at the moment, but would also like it to have a longer magnification zoom on it

any suggestions please
Click to expand...

The new models of the G series are the G15 & the G1 X, for more zoom the Canon PowerShot SX50 HS is hard to beat, all come under your budget.
 
I had a Nikon coolpix L120 and that was a fantastic camera infact that is what made me realize I was intresred in photography. You can pic them up for about £150 as well
 
I use a Fuji HS30. In 35mm terms, it gives me the EFL of 24-720mm. WAY lighter than a DSLR with a mid range zoom and with care with exposures gives bloody good results. My main consideration was weight when travelling - the DSLR kit bag weighs over the hand baggage allowance resulting in lenses being pocketed during the weigh-in!

I also use compacts when needs must - they also give great results SOOC.

The DSLR gives more flexibility but at a cost of convenience.
 
There's a new fuji coming out with a 50x zoom!! Think it is going to be around £300. It also has a 1cm macro feature.

If they could sort out the noise on small sensors and find a way of doing the background blurring from wide apertures larger sensors gave then I'd have little need of a dslr.
 
It can be done but it's a bit easier with a dslr. That fly is impressive though :thumbs:
 
That was taken over 3 years ago using an old fuji s1000fd [think you can find those now for about £50] - the newer models are much better. They don't do 1:1 macro or anything just more close up really, but they do it well, at least in good lighting.

Bridge cams are not the best quality you'll ever use, they have their issues and short comings [my one was limited to 8 second exposure, f2.8 - f/8 max, and didn't shoot RAW] but they offer a little of everything, for cheap.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top