Can heartily recommend the X-S1. It's my travel camera - has been dragged around Europe for 5 weeks just recently, and has been through the south pacific prior to that. AF has an infrequent hiccup, but all else has been good.
Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne On 29 June 2013 04:54, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013, Walt wrote: >> On 6/27/2013 2:24 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: >>> >>>I had both a panasonic fz-28 and fz-35. I think the v-lux 1 is the >>>same as an fz-50. They all had great, great optics that more than made >>>up for the noisy sensors panny was using. When they switched from CCD >>>to MOS (which gave even worse quality) I quit buying them and bought >>>my first DSLR. I've made some really nice prints from those cameras. >> >> It's a shame they went to an even noisier sensor. I haven't tried >> shooting the V-Lux at anything over ISO 100 so far. At what point >> does the noise start to really degrade the image? >> >> I really do like the lens a lot. If I found an exceptional deal on a >> gently used one of those Panasonic somewhere, I'd be sorely tempted >> to buy it as a lightweight carry-around for snapshots. > > De gustibus strikes again! My primary really dislikes zir FZ-35, partly > because of the poor low-light performance, partly because some modes > won't shoot RAW, but mostly because the interface is clumsy (which I > agree with after trying some moon shots). It does take nice shots within > its limitations. > > We're probably getting the Fuji X-S1 to replace it. > > If you (or anyone else, which is why I'm cc'ing the list) would be > interested in the FZ-35, please e-mail me privately and I'll let you > know when it's available. A proposed price would be welcome. > > (Wouldn't normally advertize it here, but other people brought it up...) > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
