On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:01:47PM -0400, Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > just about anywhere you go in the world you can find AA > cells......
Except if you're hiking in the wilderness - I don't know the specific place OP was planning to go, but I tend to hike in places where the nearest place to buy anything is several days walk away. And rechargeable Li-ion batteries allow you to take much more pictures per gram of weight. Of course there are some compacts that can use _either_ kind of batteries, making the best of both worlds. Anyway, my present compact is Ricoh GR Digital, which is very nice in some respects (in particular ergonomics, its controls are very nice to an SLR user), although fixed 28mm-quivalent focal length, poor high ISO performance and ridiculously slow RAW handling are annoying - still worth considering, though. Perhaps better would be Ricoh GX100, which is similar, but offers very nice 24-72mm zoom range and image stabilizer (and incidentally can use either rechargeble Li-ion battery pack or AAA batteries). Still, if size and weight aren't all that critical, an EOS 350D/400D with one (smallish) lens is fairly small - and even with some silly 18-200 superzoom it'd still outclass any compact. (This is the solution my wife ended up with.) -- Tapani Tarvainen * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
