henry l

Okay Bruce. Basic family photography. Walking around while travelling stuff. Surfing. Parties and sometimes drunk or in bars. I rarely print and usually not bigger than 8x10. Thanks!

<p>thanks for your reply. I've done a little looking and maybe mirrorless is still more involved in equipment than want to be, Maybe a high-end point and shoot type camera is the call Sorry for wasting your time.<br> Your photos are beautiful btw<br> Are cameras like these okaY? <a href="http://www.adorama.com/ICAG1X.html">Canon PowerShot G1 X</a> <a href="http://www.adorama.com/IPCDMCFZ200.html">Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200</a> I assume the sensors are tiny?</p>

<p>Hi</p> <p>I'm selling my whole Nikon DSLR kit - D300, good glass, speed lights - all of it.<br> I think over the past couple of years, after a very long time, I just sort of fell out of love with photography.<br> From the proceeds I'll cut out about $500 (less would be fine, not a lot more) to buy a digital camera that's better than my little point and shoots. I'd like something reasonably fast functioning and fast aperture, decent sensor size, pretty wide at the wide end, makes images that won't be a total disappointment after the D300 with good glass. I don't care about interchangeable lenses but don't have a special problem with them either. A decent flash would be a big plus. Mostly I'll snap portraits, parties, kids sports - basically family stuff.<br> I've become totally out of touch with the market segment I'm looking to buy in, so if you would please direct me to 3 or 4 cameras that might tick some of the boxes above. If you had to give up your dslr and had $500 for a camera what would you buy?</p> <p>thanks very much.</p>