Bluebear
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- St Albans, Herts, UK
I've got a Sony A77, an RX100 & a Fuji X100, plus an LX3 that has passed to my wife. They all get used at varying times!
Digilux!! Is that the one with an EVF and a fast zoom lens?
Sold it just before I got the S.Now looking at almost new Black X100 on Amazon.They had a bunch last week for under $750.Thank goodness they sold them all before I could make up my mind.I know it doesn't make sense! I do love this camera though and there is something about the original I haven't been able to duplicate with the new one yet.I thought you had the X100?
Sold it just before I got the S.Now looking at almost new Black X100 on Amazon.They had a bunch last week for under $750.Thank goodness they sold them all before I could make up my mind.I know it doesn't make sense! I do love this camera though and there is something about the original I haven't been able to duplicate with the new one yet.
It might just be me. But to my pixel peeping eyes, the original's files seem a little sharper.
$750 for the black ... I gotta keep my eye open for that. The black is nicer looking!
Sold it just before I got the S.Now looking at almost new Black X100 on Amazon.They had a bunch last week for under $750.Thank goodness they sold them all before I could make up my mind.I know it doesn't make sense! I do love this camera though and there is something about the original I haven't been able to duplicate with the new one yet.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with collecting cameras, but have you people figured out how to use more than one at a time?
It might just be me. But to my pixel peeping eyes, the original's files seem a little sharper.
$750 for the black ... I gotta keep my eye open for that. The black is nicer looking!
I almost picked-up a black X-E1. I think I should have. Working two cameras, XP1 and X100S at the Getty, (a slow moving no pressure scenario), yesterday, was okay, but I think two interchangeable lens cameras would be preferable. Just designate the X100S to everyday type stuff.
Gary
I know you had the Xe1 first.Maybe not long enough to judge?I almost did that with my 0-MD.The X100 is definitely limiting.Part of it's charm.Played with the Xe1 yesterday at the shop.Smaller than I expected.Really,really nice and beautiful in black.I got to thinking about how much it would cost to buy the whole lens line, and started figuring up what I've spent on my M4/3 lenses, and scared myself.One here. one there, next thing you know,you've got to put off retiring for another five years!
I guess its time to update as this has come around again. At this point I still have the OMD but far fewer lenses - I added an EPL5 body in there for a while but that's gone now too - m43 is mostly for longer lenses now, with the 12mm being the one long-term hold out at the wider end. I still have the X-Pro and have added the 14mm lens. I sold the GRD3 and bought a GXR28 (well used). The X10 is gone and has been replaced by an LX7. And I've also just added an RX1, which has taken over "mind-boggling camera of the quarter" designation and promises to hold it for more than a quarter. Before summer I'll no doubt add either the Ricoh GR or Nikon Coolpix A - for me, in particular, NOT to own one of these awesome new little pocketable fixed lens 28mm fixed lens marvels would be something like a crime against nature. I suspect I'll go long periods and shoot with nothing else because either of these cameras would be so totally in my wheelhouse. The only question is which - I know I love the Nikon A and I'm extremely confident I'll love the GR, there are just a couple of features and performance parameters that I'm gonna compare side by side before I make a decision. I should sell the GXR28, but I didn't pay much for it and they've seemingly been discontinued and dumped at really low new prices, so I doubt there's much point in selling it. It may become my first "collectible" - I won't really have any use for it, but I love that camera and if its sitting on my shelf, I'll probably pick it up from time to time just because it feels so good in the hand and its got a nice focus ring in addition to snap focus, which is one thing the GR won't have. But who knows, if somebody wants it and promises to give it a good home and actually use it, I'll probably let it go for a very small sum. But I guess I'll be up to five cameras if I sell that, six if I don't. Plus the emergency only iPhone camera...I have four, an OMD (several lenses), an X-Pro (2 lenses but will probably end up with 3-4), an X10, and a GRD3. I should probably sell the GRD3 based on how little use it currently gets, but I don't think I'd get enough for it to justify selling it and its such a fun camera to shoot with that sometimes I enjoy taking it out anyway. And its small, so I'll likely have it a long time. But something from the Fuji family, something in the m43 line, and a nice compact seems like the right fit for me - I could see staying with this basic lineup for a good long while, with an occasional body upgrade it there are any worthwhile improvements. Hard to see where the X-Pro or OMD really could improve in ways that would be meaningful to me, though...
And the iPhone camera which I occasionally pull out, but VERY occasionally. There's also an RX100 in the family but its most decidedly NOT mine any longer. Gave it to my wife a few days ago, she loves it, its hers. Not a good fit for me, but perfect for her...
-Ray
Well said, Steve!The moral is the Q rules! Unless I decide to switch to a Q7 . . .
I'm pretty conservative by comparison with you lot! 1x DSLR, 1x x100, 1x panasonic bridge camera, 1x elderly Olympus bridge camera, 2x compacts.