re: The view from my "office"
Yea. Sony RX100 III. Woops.
RX100 III is a brilliant camera if expensive. Easy to use but with photographer able controls if you want them, best image quality, easy panoramas, good auto HDR, Wifi connection to iPad to upload pics. (Then one can simply edit with Photos and upload to Flickr with Flickr Stacker plus easy upload to AFF. All whole lot can be done while sitting in a lounge with evening drinkies!)
There's even a remote control app for iPhone and iPad where one can focus and shoot remotely.
RX100 has limited zoom although with 20+ Mega pixels one can actually use digital zoom to fair effect. Still, one needs a good super zoom for wildlife etc. FujiFilm, Panasonic, Canon have a wide range.
