Thank you for your comment its unbelievable really how expensive they are. I did know roughly that it could run into a lot of money. But I thought I would be able to get what I wanted new for say a few hundred. There must be a lot of people round who just pay thousands for cameras and equipment without blinking. But I need to think about things and I need to feel confident that its right for me and that I can actually use it. Some of them are really hard going to use.
You really don't need to spend a lot, its a bit like cycling itself you can spend as little or as much as you want. I find many cheap cameras sufficient quality. CEX do secondhand cameras with a 2 year warranty starting from about £12 or something like that and many are very good cameras with lots of great features. Actually I've just checked and prices have doubled and sometimes trebled compared to what I paid a couple years ago on CEX and compact models seem to have very low stock levels. Seems a good time to sell some of my cameras actually. Maybe
ebay or facebook marketplace would be better. It was only back in February I got a couple of Fuji bridge cameras for just over £5 delivered and while one was missing its charger both worked perfectly and give fantastic results. Yes at high zoom in less than perfect light there is grain but in most situations give fantastic pictures. They were a gamble though as sold as untested and sold in the spares and repair section but absolutely brilliant cameras. One takes AA batteries and one has a lithium ion battery pack. One is 24x optical zoom and the other 18x. I use digital zoom sparingly but will on occasion that can deliver amazing results with a very light amount of digital zoom, perhaps doubling or tripling the optical zoom. I don't do the ridiculous 400x zoom some of these cameras are capable of which utterly destroys quality. I think one camera is 16MP and the other 14MP. So 5MP is still plenty for a 1080p image which I think from memory requires maybe 3MP or maybe 4-5MP for 16:9. Both cameras are capable of 4K 16:9 images as both are above 12MP. I have a Redmi phone with a 108MP sensor and with higher rated images than many iphones but still much prefer a physical camera although the Redmi phone is brilliant for 4k video with stabilisation.
They were designed to sell in maybe 2012 at £200-300 when that was worth about £350-400 now and as I say often less than £40 if you are lucky. Yes the tech is more dated but lenses were great and you have the option for CCD models which maybe are a bit crap for video but do some lovely images without the rolling shutter effect. Often CCD sensor cameras tried to emulate the chrome film look which I personally like because at the time people wanted digital cameras with images that looked more like film cameras. I think nowadays cameras just focus on true images where as mobile phones focus on likeable images. However it should be stated the reason I like real cameras over mobile phones is more about accessible controls, rapid shooting and the much better optics.
This is an image from my Fuji Z900EXR, I'm in no way saying this is an amazing camera, it is a compact camera, tiny size, low weight but I still think results are good.
