The perfect ovcerlander's compact?

[froston]

since this thread is all about digitals i would like to recommend some film cameras:

1. Olympus mju II (stylus epic in some countries)
perfect point and shoot, reliable, sharp lens, slightly waterproof and really good handling

2. Yashica T4/T5
pretty similar to the olympus. a little bigger, zeiss lens (the "eagle eye")

3. Canon F1 + 24mm + 50mm
the only thing that needs a battery is the light meter and aperture times slower than 1/60s. other than that it works completely mechanical. the FD mount is not used anymore on digital cameras so you can get high quality lenses for quite cheap.

i lost my faith in digital cameras a few times on the road when the battery died in the most beautiful parts of the journey or the gears of the pop out lens became crunchy. i had the ricoh gr and the fuji X20 and both are too fragile for my style of travelling. the use of film requires more space in the luggage but the results are totally worth it. image quality when scanned with a proper scanner is a lot better then any digital non SLRs.