Pentax XG-1 16 Digital Camera with 52x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom with 3-Inch LCD (Black)

smartphone cameras seem to be taking the place of point-and-shoot cameras these days but there's one big thing many new point-and-shoot cameras have that phone cameras can't touch a long zoom like this Pentax xg1 has hi I'm Larry Becker considering its price point the Pentax xg1 is surprisingly loaded with features and I'll run through most of them for you first it has an impressive long optical zoom lens and it has an electronic viewfinder so that you can always see what you're shooting even in bright environments where reflections on an LCD would be a problem as you can see from the designation on the lens body this nice long 52 x zoom lens is a 4.3 millimeter to 223 point 6 millimeter lens and with the crop factor that comes from the sensor being one over 2.3 inch sensor the equivalent focal length is 24 to twelve hundred and forty eight millimeters that's a long zoom and the optical