I have mentioned in the past a desire for something more compact than my Pentax K-S1 and with more resolution and optical zoom than a Canon compact 12MP camera (whose model number I have forgotten). Some of the bridge cameras (those in between small point-and-shoots and DSLRs) were very attractive such as the Panasonic Lumix FZ80D with 4K video/photo recording and 20-1200 mm optical zoom) but some of the compact point-and-shoots are astonishing bargains.
This one, a brand I do not recognize (so probably PRC) is 16x zoom and 44MP. It is 2.2" x 3.8". It weighs about half a pound. It is also cheap enough that if lost or stolen, it is nor a tragedy.
The one that I ordered was $54. It takes microSD cards but did not include one. Hence the price. The manual was Chinglish and unclear about formatting requirements for the not included microSD card.
My experience of this is old, but after going with a china no-name camera that was subsequently stolen, and then finding a bargain thrift-store Canon with half the megapixels and smaller zoom range on its lens, I found that the pictures from the Canon looked sharper even after cropping to restore the missing zoom.
ReplyDeleteMy take away lesson learned from this dataless anectote: The quality of the lens is considerably more important than the number of megapixels.
I might even be correct.