NSBound
Platinum Member
You are hitting all the big and quality names so far in this thread! When I went looking a couple of years ago, I told the store person I wanted something with some "heft", and with a high-quality lens, and he steered me to a Panasonic camera (of all things), and I am not sorry he did. The lenses are by Leica, one of the better lens manufacturers, the camera is the size and weight of a 35 mm camera so it can be held really still (I know, tripods are good too!), and the lenses thread on. It's a manual zoom, and I got a zoom lens plus a wide angle, I forget how many mm each. Picture quality is very good, and there is standard definition video, but I don't use it too much, I use a different (video) camera. Panasonic - wish I could remember the model! It has modes from fully automatic to programmed to fully manual. Worth a look IMHO.
