Looking for a travel camera? Make sure it these 9 useful features before you buy

There’s this idea at the back of our minds that there must be one ‘perfect’ camera, if only we could find it. That’s not going to happen! Every genre of photography brings its own special requirements, and specifications are only half the story because design and usability is crucial too.

And so it is with travel photography, where specifications take a back seat and physical design takes over. You can’t measure these things in a lab, but often they are much more important than megapixels, read speeds and AI algorithms.

So if travel photography is your thing, what is it that you should be looking for in the best travel camera? Here are my nine practical pointers:

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1. Weight