>>4318475TZ-90 was one I also looked at but 960mm in the Canons was just too neat to pass up. I don't shoot birds but I just love the idea of having that kind of reach. Mostly I shoot a lot of indoor with family so I end up using wideangle a lot. Even the """normal""" lens on my phone which is 24mm isn't enough a lot of the time when I'm up close building legos with them etc.
End up using 14mm on my phone which is always annoying. My ideal perspective is 50mm setup a ways away. Distortion annoys me as well with the stretched heads and stuff.
Tech reviewers absolutely wrecked cameraphone progress. A lot of people with giant otterboxes but man was the Nokia 808 blasted for its camera hump. Agree as well a few mm for battery and lens would make a huge difference.
>With fixed focal length you can achieve that even with current phone thickness. Not currently but maybe soon. Earlier 1" sensors needed wider angles and smaller apertures. Getting a 23mm 1.6 is quite the feat. I'd be fine with a digicam that had multiple lenses. A couple fixed fast ones for ultrawide and wide. And a telephoto zoom on a 1" or slightly smaller sensor.
My phone's telephoto, like every other phone's telephoto is pretty bad because of the small sensors. But I guess it's going to stay that way as long as super thin phones are in fashion. The Xperias has a zoom, probably a periscope, but the sensor follows the same pattern of good main, crappy other ones.
>Definitely no RAW. Dang. A real easy feature to implement though most of my ultracompacts don't have it either I think. Do you have CHDK or whatever it is on your IXUS?
