Wide-angle point-and-shoot digital?

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"piledrivingbob" <scoles@gmail.com> writes:

> Olympus used to make a Stylus Epic wide, with a 28-80mm lens, which was
> really great. Are there any point and shoot digitals out there that
> have ~28mm equivalence at their widest zoom setting?

Off the top of my head: Olympus C-5060WZ, Olympus C-8080WZ, Nikon Coolpix 8400.

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piledrivingbob wrote:
> Olympus used to make a Stylus Epic wide, with a 28-80mm lens, which was
> really great. Are there any point and shoot digitals out there that
> have ~28mm equivalence at their widest zoom setting?
>
> -PDB
>

Yes.

Ricoh Caplio RX: 28-100mm
Ricoh Caplio R1: 28-135mm
Fujifilm FinePix E500: 28-90mm



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In article <1102033171.021453.269510@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
scoles@gmail.com says...
>
>Olympus used to make a Stylus Epic wide, with a 28-80mm lens, which was
>really great. Are there any point and shoot digitals out there that
>have ~28mm equivalence at their widest zoom setting?
>
>-PDB

Canon S-60 is right at 28mm eq, and I think there is a Sony, as well.

Hunt

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"piledrivingbob" <scoles@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Olympus used to make a Stylus Epic wide, with a 28-80mm lens, which was
> really great. Are there any point and shoot digitals out there that
> have ~28mm equivalence at their widest zoom setting?

Canon S70 has a 28-100 equiv. lens. I haven't tried it myself, but it seems
like a great little camera unless you want a cheap one.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons70/

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