Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:

Olympus SP-560 UZ and Panasonic FZ18 begin at 28mm and seem to offer
many things you want. Ricoh GX100 begins at 24mm.

Sorry, nothing can be done about small sensors. It seems to be a
"cartel" decision not to offer decent size sensors in P&S cameras.

Not exactly. Larger sensors dictate larger lenses. And larger lenses make
for a... bigger camera. Darn, hate those simple laws of physics.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com


That's not really correct...

There were also a lot of small pocketable cameras in the 35mm-film age, when
there were no digital sensors.... And they were able of having things like
a 3x zoom and things like that. The lenses weren't really/much bigger than
of current pocketable digicams.

examples: Fujifilm DL-270 ZOOM, Pentax IQZoom 115, .. just look for compact
cameras at ebay

--Dennis