Excellent compact camera with a large sensor with full manual controls and a hot shoe
This compact camera has full manual control, a hot shoe, an adjustable flip-out LCD screen (not a 360˚ rotating screen) and importantly, a hot shoe and a large 1.5" sensor that you just don't find in most "compact class" cameras, and definitely not in the "point-and-shoot" small cameras. It is very versatile, takes excellent quality photographs. (The slightly newer G1-X Mark III is rather a different camera with different characteristics.) There are several adaptors you can buy for this camera, including an electronic viewfinder, and an adapter to allow use of filters. As a travel camera (such as on business trips or casual outings,) this is an excellent compromise between not being able to take a large DSLR and having to take a crappy little point-and-shoot (which is STILl better than an iPhone) and still be confident that the quality of your images will be pretty good (but not, of course, as good as a full-frame DLSR.) It also takes video, the quality of which is better than an iPhone. It takes external plug in devices via USB and sync cables. The battery life is excellent.
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