Big Lots Digital Camera

Great little Camera with lots of features. Small to take with me so I don't have to lug around the big camera and lenses.

Lots of slides to digitize. This is a siimple device: a digital camera inside a box that simply takes a photo of the color slide! The biggest problem now is simply cleaning the slide before scanning (photographing) it.

Getting back into photography, first attempt at digital. The camera is easy to use, with lots of features. Still getting used to it, but no regrets so far.

Every photography nut ends up trying lots of camera bags. This one is my big favorite so far!

The case is being used for my SONY.. digital HD video camera recorder. It is big so that it will fix and room for digital camera, the ligths, etc... So far (4-5) producer, would like to have one now.

I got tired of travelling with big bags and lots of photography gear. This was the best choice for taking my camera in my backpack. Lighweight, not bulky at all, and good protection.

When my wife and I decided to join another couple for a walking tour of northern Sicily this fall I was faced with a dilemma. I have a Nikon D810 with lots of glass. Excellent camera, but it is big and heavy. This trip is not a tour to engage my compulsion for taking photographs of every bird, person, flower, insect and building. Instead it is a time to enjoy the company of friends, enjoy the landscape and the food and take some photos. I also did not relish the idea of carrying my big DSLR and all that glass in a backpack up and down the hills; plus my wife told me point blank that she was not going to volunteer to carry any of my kit. Smart woman. So I decided to leave the DSLR at home and get a small camera that still had excellent image quality. After several weeks of research and agonizing over the price I decided to get the Sony RX1R II: it was small and light, it had a 42 MP, full frame sensor, it had a fixed, prime 35 mm lens and all of the reviews said the image quality was very high. No fiddling with lots of kit. Perfect for travel, landscapes and street photography. I have had the camera for 2 weeks now and I am very pleased with the purchase. The lens is perfectly matched with the sensor, which results in breathtakingly sharp images that can be cropped down to more than 100% to reveal fine detail in the image that was not apparent when the image was taken.This makes the perceived limitation of a fixed, 35 mm lens much less significant in practice. I disagree with many of the quibbles that some reviewers have had with the camera. The menus are easy to navigate once you read the manual and play with the settings. The programmable function button makes it easy to use the settings I use on a regular basis without fiddling. The macro ring on the lens is easy to use. Yes, the battery life is poor, but just get spares. They are cheap, and much lighter than carrying around a heavy DLSR and a lens or two.

There are lots of reasons to get a battery grip- balance, size of your hands, vertical convenience, etc. In my case, it gives me that longer battery life and balance in my big hands. It does defeat the notion of the smaller mirrorless camera, but I also take it off when I just want to do that kind of work. In the middle of a fast-paced job you might want to just stick with it but when things quite down, take it off and just walk around. As for balance, I have some big lenses and some older style flashes that are large when placed on the top of the camera. The battery grip is great at those times and helps your grip and balance.

I have lots of SDHC cards for my various cameras. The FZ1000 bridge camera records big files and also 4k Video. I have 2 of these Transcend 64GB cards for it and they reliably record all of my photos and video.

This is a great case for one camera and lots of other stuff to go with it. Not too big, not too small. Fast shipping from b&h. Only down side, UPS.