Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]agreed, the s10 looks more promising, now it is in the same league as the richo grd iii, the panasonic lx-3 and the leica copy. you can even stretch it a little and add in the sigma dp1/2 if you can live with these cameras (i think best in class images though) but not so easy to use. then there are the oly ep-1 and the new panasonic ep-1 like camera, which are just a bit bigger but much better. i am more interested in the compacts right now than the dslr. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com>wrote: > The new S90 has even more appeal for me. It uses the same 10Mp sensor as > the G11, also shoots raw, and has a 28-105 lens starting at f/2. It has a > reasonable range of manual controls nicely laid out and it's slim enough to > easily slip into a pocket. > > > > At 11:41 AM -0400 8/19/09, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > >> Digital Preview just reviewed the new Canon Powershot G11 with praise that >> sounds very ... leica-like. I've been searching for something compact with >> decent image quality and manual controls -- I was excited by the R-D1 but >> it >> seems to have vanished as quickly as it arrived, the DMC-L1 seems ... like >> an SLR ... anyway, an excerpt from the G11 review: >> >> Stephen Munday, Senior Operations Director, Editorial, Getty Images, >> comments: "The quality of images delivered by the PowerShot G series are >> so >> good that we use G10 images within our editorial library, and our >> photographers using the G series models do so because of the image quality >> and flexibility they provide." >> >> He continues, "The unpredictable nature of news photojournalism requires >> our photographers to get shots in all kinds of situations, and the size of >> the G10 allows them to do that without drawing too much attention to >> themselves. The low-light capabilities of the new G11 will be of even >> greater help in that respect, as it will allow our photographers to shoot >> high quality images without flash in even more situations." >> >> Rest of the review here: >> >> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081908canong11.asp?from=rss >> >> -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad