Talk:Bridge camera
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AI-Borg is a viewfinder camera. Had to remove the image from the article! U. Kulick 14:11, 23 April 2012 (PDT)
Canon G1 is a viewfinder camera. Had to remove the text from the article! U. Kulick 14:11, 23 April 2012 (PDT)
- The December, 1991 issue of Petersen's Photographic magazine included a 51-page "Ultimate 35mm Buyer's Guide", beginning on page 79. Thirteen cameras were included with the heading "35mm Bridge Camera." They were the following (US-market names):
- Canon Photura
- Canon SS Mega Zoom 105
- Chinon Genesis II
- Chinon Genesis III
- Fuji Discovery 3000 ZD
- Konica Aiborg
- Minolta Freedom Zoom 105i
- Olympus IS-1
- Olympus ISZ 330
- Pentax IQZoom 105-R
- Ricoh Mirai
- Ricoh Mirai Zoom 3
- Samsung AF-Zoom 1050
- As you can see, this included a mix of viewfinder and ZLR type cameras. As the term "bridge camera" was understood in the US market, it included a variety of cameras that were all seen as more full-featured than a simple point & shoot, but with enough automation to be more widely acceptable to non-expert photographers (for example, my sister, who bought an IS-1).
- As I have provided a documented source for this use of "bridge camera" among English speakers, I'm reverting the edits back to what I have written. --Vox 14:48, 23 April 2012 (PDT)
- On the selection of digital bridge cameras, I am still not completely satisfied, and want to look at that further. I'm not sure the sensor sizes of those models is really particularly larger than the typical compact model. --Vox 14:51, 23 April 2012 (PDT)
- Please see and respond to this note above before making further edits, please!
- Petersen may have mixed up true bridge cameras with oddly looking viewfinder compacts. I think You won't classify pseudo SLRs (toy camerass looking like SLRs but with common optical viewfinder instead of reflex finder) as SLRs. I suggest to make a clear classification of bridge cameras: analog fixed lens zoom SLRs, and modern digital EVF-cameras with improved zoom optics. I own a real analog bridge and a "pseudo bridge". They are definitely not comparable. Odd things like the Photura are definitely just odd oversized compact camera designs, nothing else. U. Kulick 15:07, 23 April 2012 (PDT)
