>>2968036Most lense designs, and especially simple ones, small enough to go into a compact camera, require the lense to be about as far away from the film as the focal length at infinity focus, and to focus closer than that need to go further away again. So to avoid making the camera prohibitively thicc, or to avoid having it telescope out excessively like the flimsy epeen on shitty consumer zooms like
>>2968039 every time you turn it on, enthusiast compacts with prime lenses are all around the 24-40mm range.
The best tele "compact" you're like to find is pic related, but they're not very compact at all, and fucking expensive.
