Hi all,
Wanted to consult the collective UKC photography oracle on smallish cameras with a good dynamic range.
I recently resurrected an old Lumix LX3; despite it having a great lens I'm pretty disappointed with the results. I never gelled with the camera when I first bought it, mostly because it copes poorly with high-contrast situations. This was really noticeable last week, when my iPhone was able to take far better pics in the same lighting (on-board HDR processing I'm guessing).
I don't have the time or patience (while shooting or afterward) to stitch two exposures together, and I'm not looking for extreme HDR capability as some pictures of that sort look really odd anyway! Just want natural-looking shots with some detail in the highlights.
Ideally I'm looking for something
- available second-hand and cheap-ish say £200-300 tops
- reasonably tough
- full manual, aperture & shutter priority
- compatible with a standard circ polariser either with adaptor or screwing straight on
- nice wide-angle lens as standard
Any recommendations?