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Point and shoot (1 Viewer)

Iron Crow

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Anyone have any recommendations for a point and shoot camera? My wife wants one and I bought her a used SX50 HS that she doesn't like because it doesn't just slip in her pocket. I guess I'll just have to keep the SX50 for myself then.... Anyway, I don't have a lot of experience with point and shoots so I'm not sure what's a good model. Thanks for any suggestions!
 
She's looking to snap pictures of birds and landscapes. I have a Nikon D5200 and an Olympus E-500 and I don't mind carrying gear around. I think a point and shoot might be asking a little much for birds. By the way, your 500px page is very nice indeed!
 
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Both Canon and Panasonic offer pretty decent pocketable cameras with big zoom, as does Sony.
The Canon SX720 and the Panasonic DMC-TZ80 have 30x zoom. equivalent to a 720mm lens. Obviously the image quality is not National Geographic worthy, but they take excellent bird shots and are super convenient for every day carry. Stick in a 32 gig memory card and they allow painless creation of a trip archive. Just remember to bring a charger and extra batteries, the juice runs low after a couple of hundred shots.
The Panasonic has a small view finder, the Canon does not, but it has better color imho. Neither is super expensive, about $400 currently on Amazon.

Correction: The Canon SX720 actually offers a 40x zoom, to 960mm equivalent
 
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Thanks etudiant! I think the Canon SX720 will fit the bill for what she wants; it looks like a great little point and shoot.
 
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