There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Then throw every single shred of that research out and go try all the cameras you are considering in your hand. Yes, go physically pick them up and try them. Nobody can tell you which camera will fit your hand the best, nobody can tell you if the buttons are where you think they should be, nobody can tell you if the menus are intuitive. No research can help you with that.
Go use the cameras, pick them up, hold them, try them out. It doesn't take long to figure out which one you are in love with and which one fits your hand the best.
And then buy that camera from the store that showed you all the cameras. Even if you'll pay a little more, they just saved you a ton of money on buying the wrong thing. Oh of course you could mention Amazon sells it for a lot less - maybe they will cut you a deal.
You might want to keep some of the specs in mind. For example, I do sports photography - volleyball, an incredibly fast unpredictable sport. I need high frames per second, and really fast autofocus. That narrows the choices to a few cameras. But my final decision was how it felt in my hand.
You have to fall in love with your camera. Reviews, advice, specs - none of those count for falling in love. Kate Upton might be the perfect woman in pictures, but you might just not get along with her. She might be boring. Same thing with a camera - you have to hold it to understand it.