Wibblemore wrote:
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I'm inching inexorably towards the frightening thought of having two cameras - the A2 AND the LX1. Or is that just overkill?! Thoughts?
For second camera I would prefer ultracompact which could be carried continuously in pocket for those shooting opportunities you didn't expect.
Quite many hobbyers have that kind arrangement, small compact to pocket and prosumer/DSLR for when they expect shooting opportunities. (or go to shoot something)
I would also myself like having ultra compact camera for carrying it always in pocket but I just couldn't find any compact camera satisfying even half of requirements. And compared to versatility A2 is quite light+small to carry, I've carried it whole days in some events...
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I've been eyeing up the DMC LX1 - love that 16:9 ratio image :?(how easy is it to print that out?
And Minolta's recent announcement doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
You have to crop from sides which leads to narrower FOV or leave it such and have empty area in top and bottom of print.
Reason for KM's withdrawing is that in the end they didn't have very big sales/market share while products had new innovations and features which increase costs... markets tend to be dominated by products of those makers whose BS/
PR muscle is biggest regardless of fact that their products are mostly plain dozenware.
For example if it would have been Canon doing camera with A2's features that high resolution EVF would be now mandatory in any camera claiming to be prosumer... Same would very propably apply to menu free photographic controls. But they didn't do such all in one camera because that would have endangered their cash cow, DSLRs and selling multiple lens to those so they just produce that "me-too" dozenware made by everyone else. (without knowing name+model 99% of cameras could be from any manufacturer)
Apparently KM's service is transferred to Sony (plus continue making DSLRSs under Sony's
PR muscle) so biggest difference would be lack of new firmwares.
But that really doesn't matter, firmware updates correcting lacks/errors are rare among digicameras and most makers do those updates by stamping bigger number to camera and selling it as new instead of new firmware... and biggest problem, slowish writing speed was already corrected with update two months ago which is over year after ending production of camera! (now those events are equally rare as honest politicians)
Also after warranty period getting any broken digicamera fixed costs about same as buying completely new camera so neither there's change in that.
Considering more compact cameras which have good wide angle and decent tele those are pretty much one time only events... and then there's other deficiencies in those. (like that Ricoh)
Practically almost all compacts lack wide angle, also fitting any decent/longer tele (more than ~100mm) to such isn't easy, especially so with faster apertures than F5, and just few manufacturers put IS to those...
So when you combine these features cameras with them are quite non existing.
BlueStreaker wrote:
You entirely forgot that all other EVFs look
POS after A2's 922 000 pixel EVF. (others offer 1/4th of resolution)
And propably camera already has 1.12 firmware.
But two months old 1.14 is very useful, it increases writing speed much, RAWs are saved at pace of one per 5 seconds and even largest JPEGs in 2 seconds so running out of buffer is extremely hard.
but keep wide angle and IS, and head for something more compact maybe.
