I pretty well agree with your sentiments, Ray. After trying several P&Ss
ranging from full-featured zoomers to the XA2 and XA3 (sans flash), I'm
inclined to stick with a fixed focal length model with a good, reasonably
fast lens. If it has a flash, so much the better. The priority is, will it
fit in a pocket easily and not make me regret having toted it around if I
don't take a photo all day? The XAs cover that well enough.
If I decide to replace it with an AF P&S, for my tastes something like a
Stylus Epic, Yashica T4 or Ricoh GRsumpin' is about right. 'Course I'd like
a li'l Minolta TC2 (can I say that here?), but I could buy a good used truck
for that price...
My ideal P&S would either have a silent winder or a thumbwheel winder like
the XAs. Dunno why 35mm P&Ss can't make winders silent like the APS
versions. AF would be backed up by manual zone focus in case the battery
died. Likewise the autoexposure would be backed up by a single shutter
speed and a choice of three or so f/stops.
Sounds like I'm describing the TC2 again...
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Lex Jenkins
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"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 02:25:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Ray Moth <ray_moth@xxxxxxxxx>
...Do other listees have similar feelings about P&S cameras?
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