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In 2019 these types of compact cameras have been made nearly obsolete by smartphone cameras. With their brighter & larger viewing screens, touch screen controls, panaroma function and fancy processing tricks to "instagram" your pictures the game has been won by the phone camera. Camera sales have halved in recent years and many manufacturers have abandoned the compact camera market. BUT......there is a reason still to carry a camera if you really want to compose photographically. Those phone cameras just don't do zooms well. Many of them have electronic zooms - cropping away at the photo and dropping its quality. So photograph at "wideangle" with a phone - and the pictures will be great. For the "telephoto effect, requiring a traditional 35mm camera equivalent of 100mm lens or greater and you still need a "real" camera. For the "compression" effect seen in telephoto compositions, you need 200mm lens equivalent. This sets that bar at a needing a typical zoom of 8-10x range (25/28mm to 200mm) if you want to have a traditional photographic experience of varying lens perspective by changing focal length. Without a tripod you will need in-camera stabilisation. These cameras were small and fragile. Many were put in dusty pockets and dropped on the floor. They won’t last with this treatment and once dust is in the lens and on the sensor they are no use. No amount of price reduction makes these worthwhile (in contrast, professional SLRs were designed to cope with this, and “tatty” cosmetic examples may be great second-hand buys). However – some were put in drawers for all but holidays; were cushioned in camera cases, and treated well. Get one of these for a good price – and you may be surprised at what your smartphone still cannot do !Read full review
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A very versatile camera which I feel has as many features as anyone would need to produce professional-quality photos and video, on a camera which can literally fit into my pocket. Had thought about getting the more advanced ones with GPS, touch-screen, etc, but decided that this has all that is required. The quality is superb with a great zoom. An improvement on my previous Lumix is that even during videoing, the zoom can be used.
Great little camera for my 9 year old grand-daughter
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Excellent camera ,very pleased with the quality and condition .
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Thank you very much it was a good product.
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