What camera with wide angles lens

[rr]

I am looking to buy a digital camera to replace my film SLR and its 24-70 and 70-210 lens, I use the wide end of the zooms alot and I don't see many digital that go wider than 35mm equivalent, any one any ideas? budget upto £200

[mike]

Panasonic LX2 or soon-to-be-launched LX3.   

I've got an LX2 and it's fabulous up to ISO 200, the noise is awful at anything more than that.

[andrew_s]

Ricoh GX100 and GX200 are 24-70 or thereabouts.

With optional electronic viewfinder for bright sun or if you are long sighted and didn't bring the reading glasses.

[Biggsy]

How about staying with SLR but moving to digital SLR?  You could get a second-hand one with a 18-55mm or similar lens to start with (eqiuiv to about 27-83mm), and add wider and longer lenses later.

[darkpoint]

What film slr did / do you have,  as the equlivent make of dslr may be able to use your older lenses.

This is definatly the case for Canon EOS glass.

[mike]

except the cheaper digital SLRs will make your existing lenses seem 1.5 or 1.6 times longer, which isnt ideal for wide angle.

[rr]

Its an EOS 100 with sigma lenses, I'm really looking for something smaller and cheaper than a dslr

[Wobbly John]

Panasonic or Lumix cameras seem to offer the widest angles amongst the compact digital cameras. They use leica lenses.

The Lumix DMC FX35 has a the equivelent of a 25mm at it's widest and 100mm at the long end of it's optical zoom.