Architecture with a compact

[belgiumreporter]

To save weight when travelling I just take along the dslr with an extreme wideangle zoom (or tilt-shiftlens) and a wide aperture prime lens. Not to need to drag around heavy tele(zooms) I now carry one of my panasonic compacts, in this case the DC-TZ90. Its wide and long focal range allows me to zoom in on details that fall out of the reach of what I am carrying dslr lens wise. The quality of the images is more than sufficient for travel memories. The TZ90 only disappoints when light levels become low, the shutter lag makes it a bit slow for action photography and I hate that it needs to be tethered to a cell phone to record the gps data  ( while the tz60 just records the gps data on each file no need for additional connections)
Here's some architectural details I've captured in France with the TZ70

[paulhofseth]

presumably a camera with a zoom lens?

For saving weight when walking around I use a similarly compact body on a handstrap having a kind of collapsible 28mm (Reasonably good; but annoyingly without sunshade) a zoom would be better. When travelling i use a small "1inch-sensor" thing which is even more compact and has a workable zoom. Never missed GPS or ever looked at the EXIFs Sufficiant dosumentation is in the picture itself.

The size of these small cameras are praiseworthy, but lack of proper viewfinders and possibilities for precise focussing is a serious shortcoming.

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