I'm a complete beginner whose only experience is with smartphone cameras and my dad's panasonic hx-dc3. I want to start taking photos of birds that visit my garden and other wildlife that is around 15-20 metres away from my patio. what is the best budget camera (<£200) for this? I'd say an optical zoom of 15-20x would be great. so far I've considered:
>Nikon D300S (pre-owned)>Panasonic DMC-FZ45 (pre-owned)>Olympus SZ-31MR (pre-owned)>Panasonic LUMIX DMC-TZ35 (pre-owned)>Fuji S3200 (pre-owned)I looked at review sites and amazon reviews for those cameras but the photos just seem a bit low quality at 100% zoom - all are grainy or shit. unless I'm looking at them wrong?
pic related is a photo I took today with an S8 at 2x zoom through a pair of 8x40 binoculars, birds were around 15/16 metres away. I tried to brighten their colours using
paint.net but failed badly.
>what I want is basically a camera that can take that picture but in HD, like wallpaper quality 