Cameras
Dear Olympus and Nikon,
...Seriously? You're going to make high end bridge cameras, with ultra zoom features, and not put a filter screw thread on the lens? SERIOUSLY?
Astonished and disturbed,
Me
I was leaning toward either the Olympus SP800 or the Nikon Coolpix P100, but the lack of threading threw that right out. A life without my graduated neutral density filter is not a life worth living. I think I could count on two hands the number of landscape photos I've taken without it that I actually like.
(As for why I'm looking at cameras...well, I don't need a new one; my four-year-old Olympus C-765UZ still works very nicely. However, 10+ megapixels and 30x optical zoom? YES PLEASE VERY MUCH.)
The other options in that general super zoom category all have other drawbacks (high price and a weird two-handed zoom toggle on the Fuji HS10, focusing issues on the Canon Powershot SX20 IS), so I don't think I'll be buying anything in the near future, but if cameraphiles have recommendations, lay 'em on me.
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...Seriously? You're going to make high end bridge cameras, with ultra zoom features, and not put a filter screw thread on the lens? SERIOUSLY?
Astonished and disturbed,
Me
I was leaning toward either the Olympus SP800 or the Nikon Coolpix P100, but the lack of threading threw that right out. A life without my graduated neutral density filter is not a life worth living. I think I could count on two hands the number of landscape photos I've taken without it that I actually like.
(As for why I'm looking at cameras...well, I don't need a new one; my four-year-old Olympus C-765UZ still works very nicely. However, 10+ megapixels and 30x optical zoom? YES PLEASE VERY MUCH.)
The other options in that general super zoom category all have other drawbacks (high price and a weird two-handed zoom toggle on the Fuji HS10, focusing issues on the Canon Powershot SX20 IS), so I don't think I'll be buying anything in the near future, but if cameraphiles have recommendations, lay 'em on me.
This entry was originally posted at http://icepixie.dreamwidth.org/691743.html. It has
