I use a Canon SX50 bridge camera which is my version of "close enough to DSLR". Its big enough for me to feel like I am holding a real camera and not a little cigarette box, it has awesome optical zoom, it has all the manual functions I like using when I want full control of what I am taking, great video quality, shoots in RAW so I have good editing control, and its been on a gazillion travels since I bought it in late 2013