I wonder how come there's not much talk about this as it looks like a winner on paper at least.

- It's using LX5's sensor
- Looks smaller than the LX5
- Looks like there's dual control ring like the S95
- Hot shoe = potential viewfinder??
- Can assume it'll have Oly's nice nice jpegs

Bestest of all... fast fast lens of them all.

The Olympus XZ1 has a 28-112mm f/1.8-2.5 Lens
The Panasonic LX5 has 24-90mm f/2.0-3.3 lens
The Canon S95 has a 28-105mm f/2.0-4.9 lens
The Samsung EX-1 has a 24-72mm f/1.8-2.4 lens

Potential cons:
- Hope it's not slowass like Oly's M43's.


http://photorumors.com/2010/12/29/olympus-...uiko-zoom-lens/

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Tips

Share some tips and tricks that works for me la... do share if you find otherwise.

1) Shoot RAW to avoid jpeg smear

2) P mode works best imo cos can use the front ring for ISO and adjust with rear ring for exposure compensation.

3) In P mode, it will almost always keep aperture wide open but its sharp fully opened up so no problems there

4) ISO400 is like a little over ISO1600 in Canon APS-C. So go over that in worst case scenarios only

5) The IS is very kungfu so don't worry about SS too much

6) XZ1 tend to underexpose so bump that ~+1/3EV.

7) Always meter correctly base on histogram cos small sensor not as much RAW headroom as dslr.

8) Keep it in Macro mode so no need to mar fan change at different focus distance. Didn't find any adverse effect in doing so.

9) On mix lighting, it tend to go towards green so use the custom white balance which is very user friendly.

10) For low contrast landscapes, small sensor have small dynamic range... so bracket it. Get yourself a shutter release cable also cos it doesn't do 2sec timer bracket like canon dslr.


edit: Changed the title. Can't resist

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Sep 3 2012, 03:33 PM

Enuf for street shoot liao. Certainly more flexible than a dslr lor.

Price out di meh? I don't think it's gonna be priced above m43 lor.

Ur IXUS starts from 28mm also right?

dpreview posted pictar samples liao

http://www.dpreview.com/news/1101/11011010...sxz1samples.asp

Oh giler mahal sial.
I wonder how the performance is like.. after using a dslr... now when I use the S90 or when I try the E-PL1.. I damn hate the lack of feedback.... that black screen between shots. It just feels so slow.

Mmm... just found out that the RRP in Taiwan come out di...

Oly XZ-1 --> NT16,800
S95 --> ~NT12,000 street price +/- NT1000
LX5 --> ~NT14,000 street price +/- NT1000

Then again NT16,800 can buy GF1 liao.

More reviews are out.. looks good

In cina
http://www.pcpop.com/doc/0/622/622505_all.shtml

In Deutsch
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n...-la-prueba.html

Samsung EX1 no need to consider liao.

Because its a Samsung.. no soul... no mojo

At 35mm equivalent
XZ-1 focal length --> 28-112mm
E-PL2 kit focal range --> 14-42mm = 28-84mm = shorter than XZ-1.

Strange that while some places already selling the XZ-1... there's no real in-depth review of it yet.

Wondered how the shutter lag and shot to shot time compares with the LX5

In compact camera speak.. XZ-1 is 4X zoom and E-PL2 kit lens is 3X zoom.

Easier?

Oly the most useful lens..

As a whole.. S95 is still ftw..kakkakaka....

DxOMark comparison between XZ1, LX5 and S95

You know that after all.. we're talking about compacts here. So difference likely to be miniscule niah.

f1.8 and f2 apa beza. Interesting part is the long end.

Anyway... another dissappointment for me.. my S90 soldiers on.

No lar... I just meant that like gogo said, f2.5 at the long end of the zoom (vs f3.3 on the LX and f4.9 on the S95) is useful but as a whole package, there's no significant improvement over something like the S90. At least not enough to justify sacrificing pocket friendliness

It's not about specs too... it's all about mojo.

No No No.. mojo has nothing to do with brand

Unless its a Samsung which automatically defaults to not having mojo

Back to the topic... seems like f1.8 is the new f2.0

Nikon's rumored to be coming out with one... http://nikonrumors.com/2011/01/04/the-next...8-aperture.aspx

Ya lor...the Nikon version is really for conning ppl to buy into the f1.8 hype. Uber phail.

Between the 2.... XZ-1

G12 is just bigger with more knobs and a peep hole.