nice portrait pics~
very nice~ 

Am considering between Canon S95 and Olympus XZ-1... Any reviews on the two? I know this is XZ-1 thread, comments give may be biased towards XZ-1..

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Added on September 11, 2011, 12:06 amAfter reading review here.. Looks like XZ-1 is the one..

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Added on September 11, 2011, 1:33 amI'm concern about the batt life coz I will be using it for my overseas trip.. How many photo on average can it shoot in 1 full charge?

thanks..   just an armature playing with his little toy  , for my camera i like to play with full manual and shoot .jpeg + .raw..some special pics will go into post processing..but if i malas to set, AutoAi also can do the work impressively..noise reduction is quite high with auto iso but if the pics u wanna print standard 4r album or view on your monitor it is sharp enough unless pixel peeping then the excessive smearing is really evident. one thing i love the most, super macro.. it's no match to dslr but for me this baby can deliver a good quality image. if you like to post process .raw u will love it even more..it also can blur the background with a proper setting..not all PnS can do that..

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Added on September 11, 2011, 1:59 am

i can only take around 200pics on a single charge, hd video is not that good, please consider this if video is one of your concern. if u need good hd video LX5 is much better.
white colour is pretty, black one looks solid..my 2 sen.

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Added on September 11, 2011, 2:06 amfound this tips and trick from dpreview olympus talk forum:
[URL=found this tips and trick from dpreview olympus talk forum: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat...thread=39272261]DPReview Olympus Talk Forum[/URL]

I read that topic in dpreview too. personally think that the custom setup for lowlight performance is pretty much useful.

Finally bought XZ-1 from digitalfm14.. Good service.. Recommended..

i tried too and seems to work...also if wanna reduce dramatically the video focus hunting, i follow a tip to set the focus to center and seems focus hunting almost gone and video looks waaay better..
for portrait, if wanna have blurry background, i zoom to the max and use the biggest appature (112mm/f2.5), even though at longest zoom and biggest appature the image still very sharp.

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Added on September 11, 2011, 10:18 pm

welcome to the club bro..share us your snaps here.. ..

i got free pen series original olympus casing..make sure you tie your lens cover to the body..hehe

Wow.. so nice.. Mine is just a very normal 3rd party casing.. Looks big tho.. Wonder how much is the ori olympus casing..

United colors of food


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are these really taken with olympus xz-1? omg it's SO COOL!

is there any editing done or these pics are taken right from the camera?

The food pics are shot raw but didn't tweak anything... just convert and resize in lightroom.

Just came back from my first dslr-less trip for quite some time.. brought the XZ-1 only and I find that it does travel pics quite decently.


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Rest of the set here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23880047@N05/...4738216/detail/

not really based there but i was there for 2 weeks, working trip..was at bremen and dusseldorf and also cologne..regret didn't take the train to amsterdam..

How come the quality of the photos differ from my S95 so much? Yours look very sharpened and nice. ><

Speaking of Amsterdam


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Added on September 14, 2011, 12:08 am

Same reason I went from the S90 to XZ-1... the lens is beautiful on the XZ-1, sensor and video sucks but that still means in the right condition it's lovely.

Didn't add any sharpening on this one... shot between the airplane seats with light coming into the cabin via the window


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