Add on lens' really loose quality. If you are looking to have a camera body that can have it's main lens replaced - then you are looking at cameras that can cost from $1500-$2500 (for the low end) and that's not with the lens. You would need to buy your lens seperate and lenses can cost from $150 to $1600 per lens.
It is true what silverbullet said. You can buy add on lens' or 'teleconverters' which are a lens that fits over your fixed lens. Many cameras take these (most sony, canon g1, canon g2, etc.) But if you are like me and you really love quality - you won't be too impressed with the teleconverters. I loose so much quality and it's very common with many dif. camera makes and models. For example I bought a 2x telephoto lens add on for my Sony S85. It does increase the zoom. But due to the spherical nature of the lens the corners of the shots are *very* blurry. Upper, lower, right and left edges are blurry as well. It defeats my purpose for using the lens. Then, unless you are in a very bright area, you can loose a lot of color.
I found that my 4 megapixel s85, started producing shots that looked like 2 megapixel with the telephoto adapter on. I complained to the place I bought it from (www.expresscameras.com) and they were **very** helpful in getting me a reimbursment. I doubt many other vendors would be as considerate.
Originally posted by silverbullet:
Hi, I have a sony cybershot dsc-s70 camera and there is add on lens for that one.I have found Circuit City and any good photo shop can tell you which are available for the cybershot cameras. Hope this helps
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