Redundancy is essential to ensuring you don't lose irreplaceable images. I probably overdo it, but here is my scheme: 1. Images are stored on an internal hard drive separate from the drive where the OS & programs reside. 2. As soon as I upload images from an SD card, I copy them to an external USB 3 drive dedicated to photos. 3. I also use a cloud storage service (there are many; I use SugarSync) that automatically uploads all images when they show up or are changed on the internal drive. 4. Once a week, I copy new and changed images to one of two identical external USB 3 drives which then go off site until the following week, when they are swapped. Copying is done using Total Commander, an inexpensive file manager which recognizes which files are new and which have been changed and only copies the new or changed files. I have more than 500 GB of photos; the weekly copying of new and changed files takes only a few minutes and I feel completely secure.

There are three basic differences: The huge difference in the size of the sensors, the nature & construction of the lenses (not to mention the selection available for any interchangeable lens camera), and the degree of control over ISO, aperture & shutter speed.

Thanks for recommendation.

Rico’s book’s scheduled publication date is next June.

Panasonic LX-100

Sorry, I meant zoom range.

Shooting RAW limits the range to 75 mm. But if you just shoot jpegs, the telephone range is 150 mm, which works great.