The best travel camera is almost an exercise in futility.
A friend has selected a Sony Rx100 Mk6, small light great zoom but only a 1” sensor. Great for email photos and web sites but I like to print relatively large.
I have tried the Sony a6000 a number of times and for whatever reason I can not seem to bond with it even though it ticks all the boxes, great lens choices (if I use my FF lenses) crop senor and very editable files. However, while the camera is small and light when you put on my better, and faster lenses, it is just too big a system as a compromise.
I have tried a number of m 4/3 bodies and while they should be a great alternative the image quality in low light always leaves something to be desired. Perhaps I just need to get over that as they are very capable as long as the light is good. I might succumb to lure of these cameras once again if the reviews on the Panasonic LX100 Mk2 are good. It would be nice to have a semi pocketable camera to take on trips and just carry around.
For now, no matter how hard I try to make one of these alternatives work I find myself reverting back to my favorite even if it is not all that portable. The Sony A7RIII and the relatively recent 24-105. After all I can just put the very small Sony 35.28 lens on it if I need to be a little less conspicuous.
*images from CameraSize.com
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