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Looks good Dave. I am trying something slightly different today, that Nokia N8 phone with 12mp camera and HD video all through a carl zeiss lens.
15 years ago I was waiting for a digital SLR camera to replace my Nikon F4s and along came the Fuji S1.
Now I am waiting for a phone with a camera thats good enough to take family pics on. Now if they could put aphone into the Olympus they have bought that would suit me down to the ground
Sorry I never saw your question about the touch screen on the GF2. It is not as good as the one on my iPhone or indeed the iPad which I'm using now, but it works ok.
For a fool like me, there is too much choice so I tend to set it on a favoured setting appropriate to what I am doing - and then snap away. The good thing is that it is easy to make changes and even better it has an idiot button which you can press and it goes into intelligent auto mode until you press the button again. The other thing I like is that the touch screen can be used to override the focus area settings simply by touching the screen.
It is hard to get used to the screen instead of a viewfinder after many years of SLR used but not a problem. I got a viewfinder on flea bay anyway.
Battery life is moderate and about my only criticism. I love the camera and one day I'll buy a pancake lens for it as well. It ticks nearly all my boxes and takes HD video as well as a bonus.
In case it is relevant, the touch screen technology needs to be matched to finger technique. So, my old TomTom needs a precise back-of-the-fingernail technique, but my Android phone just needs a more natural fingerpad splodge, and it knows the centre. Mismatch technology and technique leads to puzzled frustration (been there, learned the hard way...).
Stew, I'd be happier using my phone camera if the processing & compression were less heavy. It's handy to have on you, but that's about it.
Some reviews of that XZ-1 are now coming out. Looks very good, though I'll still wait for the mysterious Nikon then Canon announcements.
http://iantan.org/archives/2629
Size wise, it is between the Canon S95 and the G12 and preferable to either. In fact the size/dimensions are ideal. It has a really cracking lens. Now if could have a bigger sensor and a viewfinder, I'd be there
Dave
I too am a long-time Canon fan going right back to a wonderful Canon rangefinder camera in the 1970s (still got it) via a Pellix mirrorless SLR (wish I had still got it!) and film Ixuses and then into digital with a Digital Ixus 1
My cameras now are a G9, an Ixus 55, and ...
a Fuji HS10.
Yes I sold my entire entourage of DSLR kit with many kilogrammes of big grey lenses etc.
Fuji HS10 is a bit soft focus at 720mm for birds, but I get more great shots because I alway have it with me, when out birdwatching. It always used to be a camera or telescope choice.
My shoulders thank me every time I am out with the HS10. Anyway it is the eye that is the most important lens you have
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I too am a long-time Canon fan going right back to a wonderful Canon rangefinder camera in the 1970s (still got it) via a Pellix mirrorless SLR (wish I had still got it!) and film Ixuses and then into digital with a Digital Ixus 1
My cameras now are a G9, an Ixus 55, and ...
a Fuji HS10.
Yes I sold my entire entourage of Canon DSLR kit with many kilogrammes of big grey lenses etc.
Fuji HS10 is a bit soft focus at 720mm for birds, but I get more great shots because I alway have it with me, when out birdwatching. It always used to be a camera or telescope choice.
My shoulders thank me every time I am out with the HS10. Anyway it is the eye that is the most important lens you have
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