Compacts
Compact cameras are the result of the requirements of most modern technologies: Acceptable quality in smaller size for a cheaper price than professional products.
What is a compact camera? A compact camera could also be determined - except for hybrids - as non-SLR cameras. They have a viewfinder separate from the lens and (in digitals) they have an LCD viewfinder instead. In analogue the viewfinder is a simple double-glass window. You cannot determine focus or anything from the viewfinder of a film-compact camera. And finally: compact cameras do not have interchangable lenses. They are all built-in lenses.
These compact cameras are the ones that everyone carries around to any event - large or small. Today these cameras usually come with fully automatic lenses. This might be a zoom lens or a fix-focal-length lens. (Smartphones have fix- or autofocus cameras while the cameras that have a lens that come out when turned on, are zoom (variable focal length) lens.) If a Smartphone has zoom feature, that is always digital zoom.
Anyways, compact cameras are strictly for day-to-day photography, when you wish to have many things captured and you need it to be fast and easy. It is not quite the way to make professional photographs.
What is a compact camera? A compact camera could also be determined - except for hybrids - as non-SLR cameras. They have a viewfinder separate from the lens and (in digitals) they have an LCD viewfinder instead. In analogue the viewfinder is a simple double-glass window. You cannot determine focus or anything from the viewfinder of a film-compact camera. And finally: compact cameras do not have interchangable lenses. They are all built-in lenses.
These compact cameras are the ones that everyone carries around to any event - large or small. Today these cameras usually come with fully automatic lenses. This might be a zoom lens or a fix-focal-length lens. (Smartphones have fix- or autofocus cameras while the cameras that have a lens that come out when turned on, are zoom (variable focal length) lens.) If a Smartphone has zoom feature, that is always digital zoom.
Anyways, compact cameras are strictly for day-to-day photography, when you wish to have many things captured and you need it to be fast and easy. It is not quite the way to make professional photographs.
Samsung digital compact
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Old Leica compact
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