Originally Posted by
Justapax1
Thank you for your suggestions. Yours, and others', suggest I need to take the train to London and visit a camera shop.
I am left-handed, and therefore left-eyed, and the viewfinder of most cameras is on the left. In the analogue days I had a Rolleiflex (viewfinder on top, twin-lens reflex) but it was too big and cumbersome to take on planes so I also had an Olympus XA which I used to shoot through with my nose in the way, which wasn't ideal, as the XA used your vision of the subject through the viewfinder to put two images of the subject together to manually focus. Digital cameras with a screen on the back are much better for me, even if they don't work in bright sunlight, and the controls are on the wrong side.
I'd dearly love a digital version of the Olympus XA, it had manual everything, and fit in a shirt pocket. I'm really looking for the closest digital equivalent to an XA in form factor, but with optical zoom and colour temperature adjustment, and 1080/60Hz, which of course an analogue camera couldn't do, you had to load different film, and didn't do cine. I don't mind if colour temperature is buried deep in the menus, if you go from filming through the window to filming the inside of the cabin (or filming your lunch), you need to adjust the colour temperature.
You dont have to go to London to find a good camera shop. I suggest you contact a nearby photographer or club and ask for a recommendation. .
You don't need to set the colour temperature in the camera, it's very easy to do in post processing. You can leave it on auto and fiddle around with it later. As I and others have suggested, you do need to try actual cameras in an actual shop. I would like to add, when you have found the camera of your dreams in a shop, buy it from the shop. That way they can stay in business, rather than using their expertise and then buying on eBay.