Bridge Cameras?

Good morning all as you know I am a staunch advocate of Bridge Cameras,and with Hsuh's kind permission I feel that these images are amongst the best that I have personally seen with a Bridge camera and I have seen a few ,I know by my statement that I leave myself open to all kinds of criticism from staunch DSLR advocates But hey I can take it

Here is Hsuh's Link

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/posts/749330/

 

Hi Woo, you've started to whet my appetite for a bridge camera

Plus I was really impressed by @Kristen's photos at East Ruston (better than mine taken at the same time standing alongside him with my DSLR).

My DSLR gets left at home because of it's size and weight and instead I tend to use my old pocket sized canon Ixus. Then Scrungee mentioned CSCs on the other thread which I've been googling (never heard of them before).

For me I'm not really after the long zoom capability of a bridge camera so the idea of a camera that fits in my pocket and is 'nearly' the same image quality of a DSLR is all I want.

Have you any experience of CSCs? In particular I fancy the look of the Canon EOS M and it seems to get good reviews: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/canon-eos-m/2

I don't want to derail your thread so maybe we could start another for Compact System Cameras if there is enough interest.

 

Hi JWK no we will keep it on here if that's alright my friend my sons just purchased the Nikon 1 J1 from Argos(half price) when he comes home from work I will get some answer's for you,in the meantime this link should help The problem with review sites they are sometimes biased towards certain manufactures ,and if you look through them all they can come to different conclusions

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CHEQFjAC&url=http://www.which.co.uk/technology/photography/guides/compact-system-cameras-explained/&ei=1eOhUqKLK4iJ7AbE3oH4CA&usg=AFQjCNEXjHAj5iLkMNFqjjr-0-xdJJBXFw&sig2=QE5riND6sEx_Gxpie9BR5g

 

Hi Bilbo thank you ,lovely camera my friend this is from a previous post by yours truly keep the recommendations coming I just love Bridge Camera's

 

Thanks Woo, I'll have a good read of that link.

Bilbo, looks like you made a good choice going by the excellent wildlife shots you have posted on here.

 

That was me dropping off the Tree Ferns

Seriously thanks kristen, it's all very useful advice.

With my DSLR I have three lenses I lug around but only ever seem to use one, the 18-55mm. Maybe I should swap them around more but I never find it a problem with the pocket camera, just walk a bit closer or stand a bit further back for most of the types of shot I'm trying to take.

My smartphone is brilliant for this, I take a couple of shots of things I see in a shop or Garden Centre - one shot of the item another of the price. Then later in the day when I'm home the photos are there on my PC on my skydrive - it's dead easy to then update my 'wanted' list or find the item cheaper on the net.

 

As I have already proven on here, I know less than zilch about cameras - the one thing I can say with certainty is how amazing it is that the technology has moved on so much in such a relatively short space of time.

I sold quite a few Sony Mavica, particularly the MVC-FD5, and I remember them being cutting edge - 1.44Mb floppy disc taking merely average pictures at best. And I can remember us all thinking that this was just about as good as it gets for taking photos and putting them onto your PC.

Then, a good few years ago, we got a bridge camera - Panasonic DMC-FZ50 (still have it, languishing in a cupboard), and the images from it were simply stunning.

Now, its a Lumix G2 that has pride of place, but no doubt it will be ousted eventually.

 

No I haven't used pinterest, maybe I should try it. I'm hooked on OneNote for organising my lists, jotting down notes and taking screen shots and web links:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/onenote/

 

Hi @fat controller - I have been reading your thread about the macro lens for your G2 and just wondered what your overall opinion is. I'm after a compact camera with HD video - also it needs to take good portrait shots with flash indoors - how does the G2 score on those points?

 

@JWK - Mrs C is the camera chief in our house - I don't really do that much photography at all; having said that, whenever I have picked it up it has always managed to make me look quite good

The HD video is spot on in my opinion (the sound might be a tad better from a dedicated video camera, but its certainly not bad), and it's built in flash is one of the best I have seen.

We were delighted with FZ50 when we got it (got to be 5 years or more ago now), however the G2 is far superior (even to my untrained eye).

The only real criticism I have is that some of the on screen menus are not as intuitive as they might be, but then if you know about photography you would almost certainly get on fine with it.

 

Thanks FC - that's very useful.