Be careful you must. Tempting are the high end compacts.
If Debbie wasn't there to hold me back, I 'd probably own a few right now. These smaller cameras are just so easy to grab and carry around, and the IQ is sufficient for web-posting. Even better for print making, especially when you never actually print. On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Chris Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > Thought some of you might be interested. The first one arrived in our > local Jessops the other day. I've been thinking about this as a > lightweight carry-around camera. > > Must say, my initial impressions are good. It feels robust and has all > of the features I'd need - fast zoom lens (f2.0 - 2.8), raw, optical > VF and a nice retro look and feel. And it will fit in a jacket pocket > too (the lens doesn't fully retract so probably not a shirt or hip > pocket). > > So far as I can see, image quality is more than adequate. I'll only > want it for web and up to A4 prints, although I reckon it could do > better. It's slightly alarming to see the end of the lens in the > optical VF at widest setting, but that's survivable I'm sure. > > They let me take it outside, but obviously not far afield and I just > happened to have an SD card with me. Not very scientific as I didn't > have a lot of time, but here are a few test pics - click to get the > full sized jpeg and scroll to the bottom for Exif data: > http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Fuji%20X10/ > > It's still top of my list; just need to decide whether to become an > early adopter or wait until some of the inevitable bugs have been > ironed out. Also there's no raw support in LR3 yet, so raw+jpeg would > be necessary for the early days. > > Pricing in the UK is, as ever, somewhat high. At Jessops it's GBP 539 > plus 70 quid for the leather ever-ready case. Argos has it for GBP 439 > online only. > > Anyone else contemplating it? > > Chris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
