Thank you, Steve, Bruce and Darren for the recommendations! I passed these suggestions to my friend. He is thinking now.
I suspect that the major advantage of 4/3 system compared to Pentax-Q is a larger variety of lenses available. However, I didn't do a thorough comparison, - so I might be wrong here. Igor > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:55:47 -0400 (EDT) > From: Igor Roshchin > Subject: OT - can you recommend a good digital "rangefinder"? > > > > Hi All: > > A very good friend of mine asked for an [urgent] advice on photo > cameras. A portion of that includes a recommendation for > non-SLR (aka mirrorless) digital cameras with changeable lenses for > an enthusiast at early stages. > > The camera is to be small (mobile, take-anywhere), easy to use in both > automatic and semi-automatic/manual modes, able to handle reasonably > low light, and not to have long shutter lag. Most frequent use: > shooting while travelling (landscapes, urban views), > shooting people/friends non-very-intrusively. > > It would be a step-up alternative to something like Lumix LX-7 or > Samsung ex2f that allows interchangeable lenses (for growing needs). > > > The question is not about fancy Leica cameras or X100, or rather, > it is about mid-level cameras (with a budget of within $1K or less for > the body and one-two lenses). > > I haven't been following this segment of the market as closely. > I think that some of the Panasonic/Olympus/..? micro-4/3 cameras fall > into this category, Nikon 1, etc. > I am not sure if K-01 or Q10 would be reasonable here, - they seem to > me too much of a "specialty", and not as "mainstream" cameras... > > I'd appreciate if you can mention a few models that you'd recommend. > If you can point out the strong points of the model, - that would > also be great. > > > Thank you, > > Igor > -- 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.
