Advice or recommendations for new p+s camera please.

There are only two worth considering. The Canon Powershot G11and the
Panasonic LX3.

 

VF that aren't settable always focus at infinite, so they are usable
without glasses by far-sighted and presbyopic people.

And when I said "a correctly set VF is usable without glasses", this was
in light of the many settable VF (or binoculars) I have come across and
found incorrectly set.

 

I know... but obviously a lot of people don't.

 

Blimey,

my sincere thanks to each and all for sound advice and wisdom.
I had not meant to open a can of worms, but have really enjoyed reading this
thread.

Tomorrow, my better half and I will go looking for a camera. We are now
somewhat better equipped to do so.

Having read the thread, I might also go for some new *specs*.

I've been using cameras for 50 years. Pentax for most of that time. Latterly
Nikon and more recently Canon, plus a few others in between.
Both Pentax and Nikon used to make excellent conventional cameras, I loved
them.
Tried Nikon digicams a few years back and liked them very much, particularly
the rotational body.
Times move on, I'm now using Canon and am pleased with it.

Thanks again and my apologies if I may have awoken the trolls.

Nick.
England.

*specs = glasses / spectacles

 

Which goes back to proper professional fitting. Not all frames fit all
faces.
I've heard him tell people that a particular frame won't work right for them
and that he would not sell her that frame.

 

Maybe on your side of the pond - here in UK they are known as varifocal.

To agree with Peter, if they are prescribed and fitted properly, they can
probably work better for most people.

To agree with you - you would need to tilt your head back this is what you
have to do to view a hand held camera EV held at eye level.

For myself, here in UK the additional cost of varifocal over bifocal need
not be great.

 

Oh, but it is FAR FAR more entertaining watching you role-playing
pretend-photographer trolls who have never even owned a camera trip,
stumble, and fall with your DSLR-crippling delusions, time and time again.

The best advice you know about them is to tell someone to go the store, eh?
WOW! What an overwhelming amount of experience that you have about cameras,
you pretend-photographer TROLL.

LOL!

 

Yes, meeting real people, or even the real world. How gross.

 

Mine are if I slide them up and down my nose. That's why I don't need
bifocals.

 

Good, then by all means don't.

 

It changes the focus of the effective compound lens formed by
spectacle lens and eye lens, which is what matters. Try it and
see. Very common strategy among those with the kind of lenses and
noses which permit it to work, although it upsets some opticians for
reasons they're never able to explain clearly.

 

Surprisingly, my optician was 100% happy with the sliding down the nose
solution, which rather surprised me!

Cheers,
David