Hello I take animal and plant photos regularly for Inaturalist and so far I have always used my phone. My phone camera is good and it works completely fine for most insect, plant, reptile and fungi photos (basically anything that is small and harmless that I can get up close and take photos of) but …

The TG6 does not do distance shots well with only a 4X zoom. But I believe it is worth it for the macros and a variety of other features that seem to fit the avid iNaturalist user. I have only had it for a week and I am impressed. If I wanted more distant shots, I could bring my old barely functi…

Small cameras won’t have good zoom, TG6 is not for anything at the distance, and unless you’re ready to spend on a mirrorless one, you will have bigger camera, check linked topics with suggestions for superzooms that will be smaller, lighter and easier to learn than DSLR, you can buy one later, for …

For compact cameras that offer a wide zoom ability; I am a fan of Panasonic Lumix line. There are a lot of compact cameras they offer that have great image quality and wonderful zoom ability - since it sounds like you need zoom for birds and such. A lot of them are quite small (meant to go in a pock…

I’ve got a Canon Rebel T5, with a 55-250 zoom. It has served my well for many years. Makes great shots which generally enlarge well. Two things, unrelated to brand. Getting into DSLR photography can be complicated. Learning about ASA, f-stop and shutter speed and how they all work together. I start…

Sony RX10 bridge camera without a shadow of a doubt - it has the ability to go from close ups of flowers out to distant birds etc with a 600mm zoom equivalent lens. Not the cheapest but worth every cent. https://www.sony.ca/en/electronics/cyber-shot-compact-cameras/dsc-rx10

I use the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ60. It is a bridge camera with good image stabilized telephoto (they say 9600x) and macro. Sometimes I have problems getting the focus sharp on macro, but part of that was learning / operator problems. I will probably go with their new model if this one fails.

[image] joerich: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ60 I’m looking at a used FZ-80 as a nice small birding cam. I have a Sony Alpha with a 300 zoom but it’s hard to beat the reach for the buck of those FZs. As I look closer at these FZ80s though, I’ve been coming across a few stories of focus problems (i…

If you can find which Leica compacts have a Panasonic version - the Panasonic version is same glass (lens) but you aren’t paying for the name and the UI software is a bit different otherwise it is the same camera Ex: Panasonic ZS200 is 'the same" as Leica C-lux, offering a 24-360mm equivalent lens …

[image] NoGenAI: All the Lumix cameras I have loved were Panasonic branding of the high quality Leica cameras :) Do you know if that’s true for the fz-80 (or 82) cameras?

What camera should I buy?

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i think you’re describing the RX-10 III or IV. while they do take excellent photos near and far, they go for $1800 and $2200, respectively, and are somewhat chunky. not exactly:

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What camera should I buy?

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