Compact Camera for ~ £130

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going away next week on family holiday and do not want to take my DSLR with me (too bulky and fragile)

so im after a decent compact camera to pocket and take pics of places we visit, family etc

been looking at from what i can see the Fuji XF1 is supposed to be very good for £129

are there any others i should be looking at?

Thanks
 
sounds like a lot of camera for that money. I have a S110 but it's £100 more and it's a nice little compact.
 
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lmfy2k said:
going away next week on family holiday and do not want to take my DSLR with me (too bulky and fragile)

so im after a decent compact camera to pocket and take pics of places we visit, family etc

been looking at from what i can see the Fuji XF1 is supposed to be very good for £129

are there any others i should be looking at?

Thanks
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Even at the £200 price bracket there isn't much to touch the XF1.
It really is a seriously good bit of kit for the cash.
 
XF1 ordered for collection tomorrow

went to 2 big retailers but did not have them in stock or display

ordered the Tan colour with genuine Tan case for £149.99
 
just got home, the xf1 looks and feels great, i must admit the manual zoom/switch on will get some getting used to, i keep searching for the auto zoom with my finger lol



Time will tell how it performs :)
 
Roady said:
Any recommendations for similar usage (DSLR replacement for hols etc) around £65 budget?
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There are a lot of compacts in that price bracket, but not many good ones. I vaguely recall Canon doing an entry model around £99 if you could stretch a bit? Nice die-cast body and didn't bung loads of useless pixels in like most of the cheap tat. If you have a tablet with a card reader you could snap some shots and do a bit of pixel peeping in store. I recall Samsung's entry level stuff having issues with the lens popping off of its track (lens poking at an angle) very easily, so maybe just steer clear of them.
 
Does the XF1 have a stabilised lens? I can't seem to work it out. Looking for a step up from my phone for vlogging purposes (checklist: decent size sensor, wide angle, stabilised, compact (not necessarily a compact just not too big e.g. NEX5 would be ideal but the 16mm pancake isn't stabilised))
 
Can totally stretch price wise that was just a ballpark figure!

Last camera was a fujifilm we were very dissapointed with (so not having another!)

Seen the Samsung ST150F (lots of prices but found one for £60!) and it reviews ok...?
 
Roady said:
Can totally stretch price wise that was just a ballpark figure!

Last camera was a fujifilm we were very dissapointed with (so not having another!)

Seen the Samsung ST150F (lots of prices but found one for £60!) and it reviews ok...?
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Unless it was an X-Series your experience with past Fujifilms is irrelevant. Cheap cameras are pretty much universally rubbish it's next to nothing to do with the brand - if you try to spend £40 you're going to a get a piece of trash. Meanwhile I don't think it's exaggerating at all to say that Fuji's X-Series are far and away the best regarded line of compact and compact systems cameras on the market - a few others have high points e.g. Sony's RX100 but few are so consistently great.

vanandjuanunited said:
According to spec it does
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Yeah I've seen that, what I meant was does it stabilise video or just stills? It looks like it does from video tests on yt but I'm not quite sure.
 
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Ksanti said:
Does the XF1 have a stabilised lens? I can't seem to work it out. Looking for a step up from my phone for vlogging purposes (checklist: decent size sensor, wide angle, stabilised, compact (not necessarily a compact just not too big e.g. NEX5 would be ideal but the 16mm pancake isn't stabilised))
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Have you looked at m43 cameras, especially the Panasonic cameras are excellent for video. The Olympus models are also great and have a stabalised sensor so some of th small fast primes get stabalisation, e.g. the Panasonic 14mm is tiny. You get a relatively large and modern sensor (e.g. IQ is indistinguishable from canon crop DSLRs), a comparatively huge lens line up so there are bound to be something you like, and there is a big video community for m43 cameras so lots of supporting equipment and tips.
 
D.P. said:
Have you looked at m43 cameras, especially the Panasonic cameras are excellent for video. The Olympus models are also great and have a stabalised sensor so some of th small fast primes get stabalisation, e.g. the Panasonic 14mm is tiny. You get a relatively large and modern sensor (e.g. IQ is indistinguishable from canon crop DSLRs), a comparatively huge lens line up so there are bound to be something you like, and there is a big video community for m43 cameras so lots of supporting equipment and tips.
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Yeah fair enough, I'm gonna take a look at that, didn't know the Olympus models had sensor stabilisation that could be ideal depending on what sort of prices I can find. I'm not really looking at investing in an m4/3s system as a whole but it's definitely a possibility for video. That said, the XF1 is looking like it's pretty much everything I need at least for now. I'm gonna look into it and have a think.
 
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