CKrueger
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 Re: "Best" 18x Optical Zoom P&S? | |
This is a bit outside the box, but a Four Thirds body with a small tele probably wouldn't raise any suspicions. The 2x crop can really help you here.
Olympus' 40-150 (2.8" long) is about the same size as a Canon 18-55 (2.6" long). Nobody but a photographer would look at it and think it was a telephoto. Sigma makes their 55-200 for Four Thirds as well, and that's still only 3.3" long... smaller than a 17-85. Finally Olympus' 70-300 is 5" long... that might be long enough to trip their trigger, but if you can put it in your pocket and walk in with a little kit lens attached, you'd probably get away with it. And "600mm" effective FL should be plenty so long as you have enough light.
Any of these should give better results than any of the P&S cameras on the market, and if you get an E-410 with its 14-42 kit lens, it's actually a pretty good compact P&S camera overall for times when your 40D and 24-105 are too much camera to lug around. I just bought one recently, and while the files that come out of it don't quite measure up to my 5D, the whole kit (body, 14-42, and 40-150) weigh less than my 5D and a body cap. I'm a happy camper. :)
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