Canon A1300

My first digital point and shoot, an eight year old Nikon, has been
making grinding noises and I felt it was time to replace it but I did
want a very small pocketable camera. My impression that optical
viewfinders had died out in the low price range proved correct, which is
a problem for my old eyes. I know Canon makes a small rangefinder style
camera but that costs $800 or so but I was very pleased to see that the
Canon A1300 was available at $120. I bought one immediately and I like
it! It also has a screen (2.7 inch diagonal). The settings are almost
intuitive but the on-disc manual shows that it can do a surprising lot
of things.

I know there are smaller cameras but none, AFAIK, have optical finders.
Just for interest' sake, are there any other small point-and-shoots
still available with direct viewfinders?

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:51:43 -0400, James Silverton
wrote:

My first digital point and shoot, an eight year old Nikon, has been
making grinding noises and I felt it was time to replace it but I did
want a very small pocketable camera. My impression that optical
viewfinders had died out in the low price range proved correct, which is
a problem for my old eyes. I know Canon makes a small rangefinder style
camera but that costs $800 or so but I was very pleased to see that the
Canon A1300 was available at $120. I bought one immediately and I like
it! It also has a screen (2.7 inch diagonal). The settings are almost
intuitive but the on-disc manual shows that it can do a surprising lot
of things.

I know there are smaller cameras but none, AFAIK, have optical finders.
Just for interest' sake, are there any other small point-and-shoots
still available with direct viewfinders?

Learn to use the DPReview search engine.
http://www.dpreview.com/products/search/cameras

On 9/8/2012 5:53 PM, me wrote:
On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:51:43 -0400, James Silverton
wrote:

My first digital point and shoot, an eight year old Nikon, has been
making grinding noises and I felt it was time to replace it but I did
want a very small pocketable camera. My impression that optical
viewfinders had died out in the low price range proved correct, which is
a problem for my old eyes. I know Canon makes a small rangefinder style
camera but that costs $800 or so but I was very pleased to see that the
Canon A1300 was available at $120. I bought one immediately and I like
it! It also has a screen (2.7 inch diagonal). The settings are almost
intuitive but the on-disc manual shows that it can do a surprising lot
of things.

I know there are smaller cameras but none, AFAIK, have optical finders.
Just for interest' sake, are there any other small point-and-shoots
still available with direct viewfinders?

Learn to use the DPReview search engine.
http://www.dpreview.com/products/search/cameras

Thanks for the suggestion. There were only three in my price range.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:05:50 -0400, James Silverton wrote:

On 9/8/2012 5:53 PM, me wrote:
On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:51:43 -0400, James Silverton
wrote:

My first digital point and shoot, an eight year old Nikon, has been
making grinding noises and I felt it was time to replace it but I did
want a very small pocketable camera. My impression that optical
viewfinders had died out in the low price range proved correct, which is
a problem for my old eyes. I know Canon makes a small rangefinder style
camera but that costs $800 or so but I was very pleased to see that the
Canon A1300 was available at $120. I bought one immediately and I like
it! It also has a screen (2.7 inch diagonal). The settings are almost
intuitive but the on-disc manual shows that it can do a surprising lot
of things.

I know there are smaller cameras but none, AFAIK, have optical finders.
Just for interest' sake, are there any other small point-and-shoots
still available with direct viewfinders?

Learn to use the DPReview search engine.
http://www.dpreview.com/products/search/cameras

Thanks for the suggestion. There were only three in my price range.

I still use my Sony W300, it has an optical viewfinder, OK for composing
the camera is built like the proverbial brick outhouse.