My wife and I are traveling to Alaska and needed a new camera. I stumbled across this gem and found it had a lot more to offer compared to similar cameras. Revain offers a comparison of similar products and this is where I saw a big difference between this and a similar camera. This has 20 megapixels compared to 8 or 16 megapixels in similar cameras. This camera offers 8x zoom compared to 5x zoom of other cameras.
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