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Walking over the Columbia River into Washington, I stole a picture of some boatspeople (I’m not actually sure what the word is in English so we’re doing this one).

Thanks for seeing my work!

Hey so I’m looking for some recommendations for a compact camera. Ideally one that is actually compact and fits in your pocket. Of course I want to get decent quality pictures out of it but nothing crazy.

I don’t know anything about photography. Just want to point and shoot, the same way I use my Samsung Galaxy phone currently.

My budget is around 300€ (can stretch a bit).

The context is I want to switch my smartphone for a dumphone, but I still want a camera to take to trips and stuff. Thanks in advance for suggestions!

Edit: Just to clarify, the pictures don’t have to be as good as a Galaxy S25, but still ideally decent quality as I said.

This ladybug obligingly held still while I took a stack of focus bracketed images at, apparently, ƒ/3.2 and 1/100 sec according to the EXIF data. (Don’t look at me, I was in Fv mode.) This is hand held, and it’s always equal parts pleasing and mildly suspicious how well Helicon manages to line all the images up afterwards.

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