Something I took with the little shirt pocket camera zoomed in as fare as the optical zoom would go. Click on the picture to see the video.

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azalea wrote on Jul 7^th, 2012 at 1:58am:



I'm always on the lookout for a All Weather point and shoot camera. There are some nice ones out there with GPS and all the HD features that outdoor people love.

In the reviews the lack of viewfinders is always a sore subject especially with wild life/action photographers.
I think they're might be a few out there, but to initially lock in on a subject, especially at a distance, a viewfinder is a nice thing to have.

I'm surprised some sharp company hasn't come up with a folding one that gives you an option.

It may be just that I am old-fashioned, but I hate that almost all point-and-shoots no longer have viewfinders.  The point and shoots can easily fit in a pocket and now have good zooms and resolution, but it is hard to find ones with more than just an LCD screen.  I would think there are enough of us who want a viewfinder that someone would make a decent point and shoot with one.

Magicpaddler wrote on Jul 6^th, 2012 at 4:50pm:

Doubtful that its related to the card used since I was using a Class 10 (minimum 20 mb/s tranfer rate) one.  BTW:  This "refresh" lag was actually listed in one of the reviews I read, but I bought the camera anyway. 

I was just a little quick on changing from continuous to single shot just before the eagle took flight.  Then because it takes just a little time for the camera to focus, my quick shutter release resulted in a blurry shot.

dd

I have 2 memory cards that fit my camera and I noticed a much longer delay between shots with one of them than the other.  Don’t know what you are using for a memory card but a fast one may affect how long between shots.

Magicpaddler wrote on Jul 6^th, 2012 at 12:39pm:

While I do like the camera a lot, there are a few things I find a bit "tweaky."  The oddest one is that when you turn the camera sound off (e.g., shutter clicks, selection beeps, etc.) you also turn the flash off.  My reaction to that one was "HUH?".  The second issue is that in EXR mode, the auto focus tends to work a bit too hard.  Lastly, the lag time between shots is a tad long, so if you expect that you want more than one, you probably need to set it to continuous shot mode.  This lag caused me to miss a beautiful eagle in flight shot ... I'd just pulled the trigger on a "perch" shot when he took flight ... and I sat there waiting for "refresh."  Drat!

dd

Wow I read a review of the HS20EXP. That is quite a camera also.  I wanted something that would fit in my pocket so the one I have is a good one for me.

My pics of this year's trip were taken with a FujiFilm HS20EXR (a discontinued model which I picked up relatively cheap).  It has a 30X manual zoom to which I added a Sony teleconverter to push the zoom out to 50X.  It shoots 16mp stills and movies at 1080p (at the same time if you want).  I was very happy with the panorama feature also.  Its classed as "bridge" camera -- between a pocket camera and a DSLR.  I'm still learning how to use it (wasn't happy with my waterfall shots even with an ND filter add-on, even though I was able to produce some nice shots pre-trip).

Definitely not something you stick in your pocket (which is the principle reason I didn't wind up with any fish pictures), but I did drop it into a dry bag which I attached to a thwart while paddling.

dd

I like the blue tooth idea.  Put the part with the GPS and battery in a water proof case in my pack and take my right eye out and replace it with the camera lens.  Wire the display directly up to the optic nerve.  That camera can see much better than my eyes can any way. Ya and add some nonvolatile memory too.

db wrote on Jul 5^th, 2012 at 6:33am:

That's the ticket !