This is the "general-purpose" category, where photographer might be using the camera handheld, on a tripod, or whatever. Landscape photography, weddings, etc also fall into this category.
Useful features include:
- Electronic viewfinder (not LCD)
- With infrared imagery it's very useful to see the IR image instead of the visible-light image shown through an optical viewfinder. Being able to put your eye up to the viewfinder has advantages of visibility and camera stability.
- While eye-level electronic viewfinders do show less detail than the optical viewfinder of an SLR or rangefinder, the benefit of seeing the infrared image outweighs those drawbacks.
- "Shooting priority". Cameras with this will switch to record mode when the shutter button is half-pressed, no matter what the camera was doing beforehand (e.g. reviewing photos or in a menu).
- Availability of a tripod quick-release system is also important to many photographers.
