I'm currently looking to buy a camera for friend, she normally do the following with her camera:
* Portrait with at least a bit of soft background blurr.
* Macro for small stuff like flower and pets ( hamster ( roborovski ) , Dog, Cat)
* Daily use camera and put them in her handbag ( so, compact has more weight)
* Food
*She is not spec and technical freak, just a normal camera user



I know these stuff suit best with even a entry DSLR such as 1100D, 3100D, But since she is going to bring together with her everyday. So indeed a compact camera would be much preferable.

I search around the internet and notice some recommendation from S100 , LX5, LX7( with no much review since it didn't even launch yet) to compact system like J1, And I end up looking into RX100 and seems its the best balance, plus the blurred background effect easily.

However looking at the >2K price, it stop me from recommend this, while I'm seeing other camera below 1.5K. Even the Nikon J1 ( including 10-30mm and 30-100mm) is below 2k.

Initial reserach shows me that J1 tend to be the best deal , reasonable price and it's blazzing fast in taking photo, best for her to take photo for her super energize roborsvski who run like a ferrari). But after we looking at blurred background effect, it seems to fail us.
According to online review, it perform sucks in Low light and not able to do blurr effect ( at least not easy for common users like us comparative).

Any successful stories or tips on using J1 with blurred effect? can't find any (While RX100 seems to be promising ).


Any other recommendation guys? I've no idea now...




P/S: let me know if i posted in the wrong place. thanks.
Budget: 1-2K max

This post has been edited by cakegiyh: Aug 20 2012, 04:16 PM

Thanks. Will move there. NEX-F3 can take blurred images? Which F3 Model? There are couple of them.

This post has been edited by cakegiyh: Aug 20 2012, 04:54 PM

Thanks Bryan. But G1x seems to be over budget for me.

"little ice" idea seems to be good. I will do some review (a peek on review shows that NEX-F3 seems to be promising. )