SuperZoom Camera

photodgm

Opps missed post 3.
I'd suggest looking at Panasonic lumix TZ70, review here
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/panasonic_lumix_dmc_tz70_review/

Current cost £243
http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/Panasonic/Panasonic-Compact-Cameras/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-TZ70

Kunoichi73

Thanks again to everyone!

Looking at the recommendations, they tend to be for cameras with around x30 zoom. Would that be the best compromise between zoom and picture quality, rather than going up to the x50, x60 or higher zoom cameras?

Ant555

EssexExile wrote: »

Another vote for Panasonic, I'm on my fourth. Unlike others I find the big zooms really useful. I have the TZ60 which has the 30x zoom & the image quality is perfectly adequate for my needs. The added bonuses are the viewfinder, that you can't be without in sunny places, & the fact that it is small enough to slip into your pocket.

+1 for the TZ60 for me - as already suggested the viewfinder is useful but for me it is also the 'zoom ring' for manual zoom.
Look through the viewfinder and twist the zoom ring around the lens without taking your eyes off the subject - I have found that long zooms are difficult to handle using the screen on the back of a compact camera.

Waterlily24

Another Panasonic Lumix fan here too, mine is two or three years old and is the third one I've had. It's a bridge camera though 24 x optical zoom. I've managed to get some good pictures of a little owl who used to sit on the summer house at the end of the garden about two hundred feet away.