Hello all,
I just got back from a couple of great days skiing with my 8 and 11 year old girls and my wife. I noticed that many times it was near impossible to get some shots with my point and shoot LUMIX-tough pocket camera.
Focus acquisition was to slow, even for a skier against a white field of powder! Also the buttons were so recessed that using them with gloves was hit or miss.
I have a mirrorless camera and an IPhone 7, so what I want is a better skier’s pocket camera, basically something that I can whip out and get the shot:
What I don’t demand:
I just got back from a couple of great days skiing with my 8 and 11 year old girls and my wife. I noticed that many times it was near impossible to get some shots with my point and shoot LUMIX-tough pocket camera.
Focus acquisition was to slow, even for a skier against a white field of powder! Also the buttons were so recessed that using them with gloves was hit or miss.
I have a mirrorless camera and an IPhone 7, so what I want is a better skier’s pocket camera, basically something that I can whip out and get the shot:
- Small enough to fit in a large ski jacket pocket
- Touch screen not essential to operation
- Good sized spaced apart controls, in other words, operable in gloves
- ~28-100mm equivalent focal length
- Image stabilization
- Ideally, a (Accessory) viewfinder
- Fast focus acquisition
- Fast wake up
- Fast shutter speed (combination of high ISO and/or wide aperture)
- Ideally, good tracking autofocus
- Quick access to commonly needed operations
What I don’t demand:
- Superb image quality
- High pixel counts
- Shallow depth of field
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