If you are just a very basic photographer who wants to be able to get close to the action without fumbling with settings, this is probably the easiest and best way to go. I tried a few of these cameras and found impressive results.
It was not quite the clarity or speed I wanted, but definitely a huge step up from my digital camera.
Some of these cameras can be had for just over $100, a very reasonable price. Many offer 20x -50x zoom capabilities which is extremely impressive.
The clarity on my pictures was more than acceptable.
The big issue I had with these cameras was the same you will see with most point and shoot cameras.
They were slow and did horrible in low light situations. They also produced a lot of very dark shadows.
I do a lot of sports photography and I take thousands of pictures a year of my three boys. These cameras produced decent shots, but not what I wanted.
For burst shooting I could not shoot the number of images in a second that I wanted so I could capture the exact moment I wanted. They also took a long time to write to the memory card causing a delay before I could shoot the next picture.
Low light performance was terrible. If I could get much of anything to show up, the image was extremely noisy.
The other issue was the shutter speed. Fast moving objects like a baseball bat came out blurred. No matter what I did I could not get these images sharp.
If you can live with these limitations you will be fine. Perhaps if I had invested in a more expensive ultra zoom some of these limitations might have been overcome. But if you are going to spend the money for an expensive ultra zoom, you can buy an entry level DSLR and open the world up to a lot of possibilities.
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