In article ,
Eric Greenwell wrote:

There are plenty of cameras that take great pictures, and I have used a
large, heavy camera in the glider, but I'm not willing to do it anymore.
Camera technology has improved so much, and some of the cameras I've
looked at are so close to being acceptable, I remain optimistic. The
difficult feature for the smaller cameras seems to be the minimum focal
length (wide angle). Big zooms must be easier to achieve.

Fuji seem to be the only company that care about wide angle in compact
cameras. I love my old Fujifilm DL-Super Mini Zoom 35mm film camera,
which has a very nice 28-56mm zoom lens, and I bought my current Fuji
e500 4 megapixel digital camera pretty much because of the 28-90mm
(equiv) zooom lens and the manual controls. Fortunately it also happens
to be an excellent camera, but is usually hijacked by my g/f. You can
see pics she takes with it at
http://www.canllaith.org/Canllaiths_gallery/ (all except the "South
Island" gallary, which was an older Sony).

--
Bruce | 41.1670S | \ spoken | -+-
Hoult | 174.8263E | /\ here. | ----------O----------