I Intend One Need A Novel Photographic Goggle Box Camera - What Produce Yous Think?

I'm inwards a right quandary.  My dear photographic television receiver camera which has taken groovy pics inwards the past times is commencement to accept non quite as well as then groovy pics as well as I've got to start thinking most what next.

I intend I may guide maintain fallen over amongst it circular my cervix i time likewise often.  (I should add together for those who don't know me that I guide maintain a residuum job due to damaged feet which don't component every bit they should).

I've ever had a policy of working out what the adjacent photographic television receiver camera is earlier I demand it every bit I tend to purchase a novel i every 2-3 years as well as cameras modify as well as then fast these days that I similar to know what I'm going to purchase earlier I guide maintain to.

Now the job I guide maintain is I don't know which agency to go.  You were all such a assist ( run across PC vs Mac for artists) concluding fourth dimension when I had to determine what to do most my adjacent reckoner (for which my iMac as well as I would similar to give thank you lot you for 2 extremely happy problem-free years) that I decided the best thing to do is to enquire for your assist again.

OK - as well as then here's the problem.  I've been working my agency through the Canon Powershot south serial Super Zoom (bridge/prosumer series)  for some years now.  I currently ain as well as guide maintain flogged to expiry a Canon Powershot S5 1S.  (Here's the detailed specification)

My dear Canon S5 1S

The type of photos I take

Looking through my photos I've developed a blueprint over the years

• strong emphasis on color as well as form
• things rather than people (only a modest chemical ingredient of cats as well as babies as well as people on outings/holidays)
• reference photos
• paintings inwards exhibitions
• flowers as well as plants - as well as their internal construction at macro level
• vegetable gardens
• food

G is for Grapes - Grapes inwards Tours marketplace
(taken spell walking roughly amongst my sis and niece - no fourth dimension to faff around)

• parks as well as gardens
• landscapes as well as cityscapes - amongst a slight vogue towards existence "arty" at times

I is for Indian Summer - at Sheffield Park

The things I similar most it as well as would similar inwards my adjacent camera are every bit follows:

• fabulous Intelligent Image Stabilisation - I never ever guide maintain shutter milk tremble on whatsoever photos.  I never ever desire to run across any.  I'm in all probability faithful to Canon on this i characteristic alone.
• Great zoom Optical 12X as well as Digital 4X.  I've had problems finding anything which comes closed which also has....
• a practiced macro / super macro function.  I love taking macro shots of the construction of flowers as well as then this i genuinely matters. I don't genuinely attention what a macro does inwards regulation - what I attention most is how long it takes to teach there.  My Canon Powershots prior to this i did it faster.  This i is tolerable - as well as involves me shuffling backwards as well as forwards until I abide by the distance it's focus at.  However I currently can't abide by anything which does it improve as well as faster.  My examination is how piece of cake it is to focus on the modest impress of the photographic television receiver camera labels inwards Camera shops which gives me a practiced baseline to do the same thing inwards unlike shops
• Great grip - which makes it really piece of cake to hold (think 'Good Grips" kitchen tools) in a mitt which has some difficulty gripping as well as thence makes it hard to drop
• Good Flash - squeamish to guide maintain for the strange occasions I work it as well as really uncomplicated to use
• Dioptre correction - essential for those of us whose eyes are non what they used to be
• very flexible vari-angle monitor - genuinely helpful for hard to shoot shots

The things I'd similar to travel improve inwards my adjacent camera

• much improve results inwards depression lighting.  By improve results I hateful abide by the color inwards the depression low-cal as well as don't give me a lot of vibrations at the same time. I do a lot of photographing inwards exhibitions as well as every bit a affair of regulation I never work a flash.  Partly because it's counter-productive of the piece of work is glazed as well as partly because it's really anti-social if you're using flash at the same fourth dimension every bit people are viewing an exhibition.  I'm fine most flash if it's a press sentiment but won't work if it's not.  I was absolutely gobsmacked of late to realise that my Milky Way smartphone delivers a improve photograph inwards depression lighting than my photographic television receiver camera does!
• minimal post-shoot processing inwards PS would travel absolutely wonderful.  I guide maintain to accommodate the levels on virtually every interior shot I accept at the 2nd which is why an exhibition postal service tin accept ages.  Anything which takes a improve moving-picture demo inwards the given lighting as well as reduces fourth dimension processing is a practiced thing.

Big versus modest or both?

Now the genuinely large enquiry revolves roughly which is the to a greater extent than of import of the next as well as which photographic television receiver camera tin deliver the goods.

• Small is practiced - upwards to a point: I'd accept to a greater extent than photos if I had a photographic television receiver camera which was smaller as well as would teach inwards a decent size handbag.  However I don't similar cameras which are likewise modest (eg normal 'point as well as shoots' every bit I abide by them really hard to use.  If I could teach dorsum to the size of my master copy Canon S1 1S I'd travel delighted
• A practiced handgrip is essential:  I do similar a photographic television receiver camera amongst a practiced handgrip - something I tin twine my fingers circular as well as experience secure.
• Simple to work is good: 
• I similar simplicity - but I don't desire merely a "point as well as shoot". 
• I'd similar to travel able to accept fifty-fifty improve photographs every bit I genuinely bask photography.... 
• ...but I'm non into existence overly techie 
• I lean towards taking a lot of photos fast using auto settings....
• ....rather than working slow as well as using the manual options.  The fourth dimension I accept is over composition non super techie stuff
• Lightweight is good: Balance is a large number for me - as well as a heavy weight photographic television receiver camera is almost sure something I don't desire to carry.  My adventure management strategy for my residuum job is to avoid carrying anything over a shoulder which is likewise heavy
• Megapixels - plenty is enough.  I've teach an 8 megapixel photographic television receiver camera at introduce as well as that's absolutely fine.  Pixels are non a driving forcefulness for me - as well as then long every bit at that topographic point are enough.  More pixels to resolve the depression low-cal number is good.
• Type of photographic television receiver camera is upwards for debate: In the DSLR vs Bridge vs compact fence I intend I nevertheless lean towards Bridge (mainly because of the zoom as well as the extra functionality as well as because they're easier to hold) but non if it's getting likewise large as well as heavy as well as trying to travel likewise much similar a DSLR (which is the road Canon seemed to travel taking of late)

My ideal photographic television receiver camera would deliver me all the things I similar at present, give me improve results on the aspects I intend tin travel improved as well as travel modest plenty that it doesn't demand to travel carried roughly inwards its ain photographic television receiver camera bag.

Failing that it would travel similar my Canon S5 1S but better.

My questions for you

1. What photographic television receiver camera do you lot work at the 2nd - as well as would you lot recommend it to me?  If so, why?
2. What's the photographic television receiver camera you've got your oculus on which mightiness suit me?
3. Are you lot faithful to i brand of photographic television receiver camera - as well as if so, why?
4. Is at that topographic point whatsoever exceptional component which you lot intend I should have?

Do delight share - I'm sure I'm non the only i who feels confounded by the all the details most the cameras on offering which modify every half dozen months.

As concluding fourth dimension - I'll percentage my thought procedure every bit I teach through as well as feedback to you lot what my conclusions are.

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