My wife is starting to get in to photography more and more. She likes her point and shoot camera because it is small so it can go with her most ever where.
She is interested in some of the nicer cameras (with focus control and high zoom lenses). Is there any way to have the best of both worlds? Have a camera with the features of a higher end camera but in the size of a point and shoot camera?
Answer
As well as the "bridge" category, there is also the new category that has yet to settle on a name, but is variously known as
These have different lenses available, as do SLRs, but are smaller due to not having mirrors. Some examples are the Olympus PEN E-P2, Panasonic Lumix DMC GF1 and the Sony NEX-5.
These are all pretty compact, especially when used with a pancake lens. You can get big zooms for them, but the lens will be big, so the overall compactness will be lost.
One thing to note is that a large zoom built into a compact (often marketed as "Ultrazoom" or similar) tends to be combined with a very small sensor, which means that the image quality will suffer, as will low light performance. This article explains why.
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