Which Lense

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My suggestion is to think if one really needs to take a SLR camera with big lens. I have seen many people carrying SLR-s on their trips but *typical* end results are not that much better than one can get from decent point and shoot. Actually the result depends much more on photographer's ability than camera. I'm not telling that p&s is better for all, but many people taking SLR-s just lug a lot of gear, jet their results are not that good.

You can see some typical travel pictures on my web page, these are taken with small Panasonic DMC-LX1 point and shoot camera in 19:9 format (in JPEG format). It ha zoom range of about 28-100mm and real image stabilization.

I really like compactness of small cameras, I can carry one in my motorcycle jacket's front pocket, always accessible.

SLR cameras have better image quality and advanced features but for typical touristic snapshots good p&s with some skill can make wonders. I agree that for more artistic type of shooting other cameras have their advantages, however for general "I was here" types of shots I can really suggest good compact point&shoot cameras over SLR. After all, image quality seems to be over rated compared to content.