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Yesterday evening to best buy and tried different cameras. When I went into DSLR section, it was really trying to change my mind to adopt one of them. Pictures were sharp and they had some kind of (visible) depth in their picture. That was looking more natural in comparison to other compact cameras. Even high end compact camera like NEX series was not giving that natural depth of picture. I don't know, technically what this term is called. DSLR was giving a very natuiral picture, but clear, whereas other compact camera were giving picture as it is sharp fine, but more painted. Is this difference only visible on LCD of camera, or on real picture also this kind of difference will be there ? Or am I just feeling it because I am impressed with term "DSLR" :-) ?

 

I checked few other cameras there. I checked about Panasonic LUMIX FZ72 but they didn't knew its price. RX100 is out of my list. They didn't had Canon EOS-M, but I think it is not closer to Canon 100D. Am I thinking correctly ? Prices are far different.

The LUMIX FZ72 was announced today. http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/07/18/...tical-zoom  list price 399 US$, not in shops yet I'd guess.

 

Yes, EOS-M is not being sold much in the US.

The sensor of the EOS-M is virtually the same as the 100D.

 

 

you can compare different cameras and lenses online

http://camerasize.com/compact/#351.386,3...8.377,ha,t

this comparison shows how much you can save by getting rid of the mirror box (and flash), but they have the same size sensor (APS-C).    Same size sensor is also in Nex and Samsung (and Canon Rebel dSLR, and consumer Nikon dSLR)

 

The difference between Nex and dSLR, they have same sized sensor, so the difference you see is only the back LCD, or possibly different lenses.   Maybe some dSLR had a "fast" 50mm f1.8 lens on it that gave a more 3D look because background was out of focus.  This is depth of field (DOF), see examples here (bottles) http://www.photoaxe.com/examples-for-und...-of-field/

P&S cameras have very big DOF (almost everything is sharp). On larger sensors (mirror-less/dSLR), with the right lens, you can narrow DOF, and good subject isolation (your subject is sharp, background not).     larger sensors have more DOF. larger apertures on lens give more DOF.