My A70 has pretty spoiled with the optical viewfinder in bright light, power shortage or display damage (their last images were only through this emergency operation still possible), the thick handle of the battery bay, operating with world standard (if possible lithium) primary cells instead of batteries , At the small delay I was used to a limited zoom values also, as a hobby photographer you're used anyway, possible images counteract or run after. The smaller pictures showed more positive when sending email. Expensive it should not be, pain threshold 100 euros or slightly above. The producer should have a good customer service offer, as I already knew him from Canon. No, no further requests.
Then came the search, search, search. In stores, the Internet. Bäääh! I was half blind and almost ready to buy something. First always the latest models came on the table, thin and smooth, hard to access without viewfinder. Until I then still the A1200 have discovered here that just not a new model is longer, but everything what I wanted again. Among the special programs I looked at the major for me picked out and trained, the rest does not bother me. Show me those of more than 30% use of his PC! A system administrator might.
and now? After the few days in which I have, of course, a bit "hunted", I love them! As would be back to my old A70erle, would have learned a lot. Power on outings every way with me, delivers beautiful, sharp images with rich colors that I can influence. No one will reinforce for evening fog over a lake the color, but for the lily it already. In the macros you can see more than the naked eye. In the evening you had to always been looking for a pad. And when heading out to photograph frescoes in 20 m height, I know beforehand that I there must take my SLR with interchangeable lenses + tripod. I do not go with sneakers indeed in the opera, but well into the forest, to the supermarket, to the dentist, to the Nordic Walking Trail! And works just as well as the A1200, comfortable, almost suitable everywhere, in everyday life it provides almost everything. For special situations, one has to define also special device to halt. And pay accordingly.
