Need a Point and Shoot--Urgent

[PezDispenser]

I'm heading to a concert tomorrow evening and no way I can get my 6D in the door. Concert is indoors and I'm front row of the balcony so need something that is good in low light with a lengthy zoom. Any stabilization function is a plus. Here's the biggest catch, I need to be able to buy it at a big box/Best Buy. I've looked at the Sony DSC-HX50V and it seems like it might do the job. Any thoughts on that or any other suggestions are very welcome. Thanks!

 

[Patrice]

Can't comment on your choice but for me the purpose of a p&s is either small and pocketable, or willing and ready anywhere. So I use two - a pocketable nearly indestructible XP and a slightly larger nikon with a good zoom and that uses readily available 'AA' batteries.

 

[Monday]

Hard to beat the sony rx100 in any iteration.

 

[astroNikon]

The concert was on the 6th ... so I wonder what he got ?

 

[KmH]

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[robbins.photo]

The concert was on the 6th ... so I wonder what he got ?

Probably a lot of very blurry, underexposed pictures. Point and shoots are terrible in bad lighting. Sadly though a lot of concert venues won't allow anything better than that through the door.

 

[TCampbell]

Once upon a time I picked up a Canon Powershot G1 X specifically because it uses the same sensor technology as the Canon APS-C cameras (although it's cut down to 80% size) and offered a very large sensor size (by point & shoot standards). It was excellent in low light. I took it to Coachella and it did extremely well. It does NOT have a very long zoom range (that's a definite weakness.)

It doesn't fit in a pocket but that wasn't important... the goal was to get a camera that didn't have a "removable lens" so as to not have to worry about the venue rules excluding such cameras.

There are a number of similar cameras -- many with considerably better zoom ranges than my G1 X (original). I do like the fact that the camera ALSO has a hot-shoe so I can use my speedlites. The body is metal (at least it is on my G1 X) and is built like a tank (mine actually did take a hard drop of about 3 or so feet onto a sidewalk and come out with the tiniest of scratches. No "real" damage to the camera as the imaging system and performance and still perfect.

The controls are (although extremely compact and jammed together) very much similar to a DSLR. The camera is commonly used by photographers who own a DSLR as their main camera, but need a second camera to take to places where a DSLR is either impractical (does such a place actually exist?) or simply not permitted (like those concert venues.)

 

[Holejee]

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