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JohnTF · 09-05-2011

Cameras are like guns, most of them shoot better than I.

However, some do not. If the camera/lens at hand produces a handsome decent size print, it may well be good enough.

As having been caught with the wrong or no equipment, by all means carry what you will.

As to P&S, there are some that will catch an image I would not otherwise catch as I just cannot, or will not, carry my proper camera kit everywhere at all times. At one time, that meant MF, several bodies loaded with color and B&W.

Question has been, how many do I have to buy to find one that produces images, "good enough".

Some seem to have some awful sensors/lenses.

I find the Canon G9 or 10 good enough often, with the result of some good prints.

I also try to have a newer Sony with a decent hunk of glass, as total pocket camera, I really like a viewfinder though, but at this point it is what it is.

In a few years, the P&S's will all be in cell phones, are there any with Leitz or Zeiss glass? Must be by now. ;-)

Regards, John

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JohnTF Registered User JohnTF is offline Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Home is Cleveland, Summers often Europe, Winters often Mexico. Posts: 2,059	Cameras are like guns, most of them shoot better than I. However, some do not. If the camera/lens at hand produces a handsome decent size print, it may well be good enough. As having been caught with the wrong or no equipment, by all means carry what you will. As to P&S, there are some that will catch an image I would not otherwise catch as I just cannot, or will not, carry my proper camera kit everywhere at all times. At one time, that meant MF, several bodies loaded with color and B&W. Question has been, how many do I have to buy to find one that produces images, "good enough". Some seem to have some awful sensors/lenses. I find the Canon G9 or 10 good enough often, with the result of some good prints. I also try to have a newer Sony with a decent hunk of glass, as total pocket camera, I really like a viewfinder though, but at this point it is what it is. In a few years, the P&S's will all be in cell phones, are there any with Leitz or Zeiss glass? Must be by now. ;-) Regards, John __________________ To capture some of this -- I suppose that's lyricism. Josef Sudek Last edited by JohnTF : 09-05-2011 at 09:00.