11-13-2011, 06:29 PM
[quote name='Klaus' timestamp='1321179640' post='12886']
Difficult to tell at this stage.
As of NOW I would go for a Panasonic EVIL simply because you can also have premium lenses for this system like the X zooms and various primes and specialty lenses. I would not go for Olympus - less so because of the accounting scandal but because their IS system does not convince me at all.
Pentax Q is probably only something for Leica-like quality lovers in an ultra-small box (in the real life it is far more compact than the comparison images on the web can suggest) but technically it is clearly inferior.
As far as Sony is concerned - they have the best sensor for sure and possibly the best bodies. However, as of now they are not competitive with respect to their lenses. Samsung is somewhere in between Sony and Pana from a global perspective. However, I feel that the components are too big (apart from those nice pancakes, of course).
I can't really comment on Nikon at this stage but according to Markus the body is also too big (as is the 18-200) and the sensor is probably already too small for depth-of-field isolation.
If you want to keep your DSLR it makes probably sensor to go for a viewfinder-less approach - with viewfinder things simply get too big again (at least when considering the GH-2 - this may be different with the NEX7). The new GX1 may be sexy then.
If you want to substitute the DSLR a viewfinder EVIL would be the right choice for sure then - thus probably the GH-2 (although I do not like the amount of plastic here).
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I agree it is difficult. I am more for panasonic due to their compactness (even the fast primes), but the sensor performance of NEX 5 throws in the confusion. Olys, Qs, and Vs are not even in my scope. I am not in the hurry will see how the things are changing in the future.
Thanks for your opinion.
Difficult to tell at this stage.
As of NOW I would go for a Panasonic EVIL simply because you can also have premium lenses for this system like the X zooms and various primes and specialty lenses. I would not go for Olympus - less so because of the accounting scandal but because their IS system does not convince me at all.
Pentax Q is probably only something for Leica-like quality lovers in an ultra-small box (in the real life it is far more compact than the comparison images on the web can suggest) but technically it is clearly inferior.
As far as Sony is concerned - they have the best sensor for sure and possibly the best bodies. However, as of now they are not competitive with respect to their lenses. Samsung is somewhere in between Sony and Pana from a global perspective. However, I feel that the components are too big (apart from those nice pancakes, of course).
I can't really comment on Nikon at this stage but according to Markus the body is also too big (as is the 18-200) and the sensor is probably already too small for depth-of-field isolation.
If you want to keep your DSLR it makes probably sensor to go for a viewfinder-less approach - with viewfinder things simply get too big again (at least when considering the GH-2 - this may be different with the NEX7). The new GX1 may be sexy then.
If you want to substitute the DSLR a viewfinder EVIL would be the right choice for sure then - thus probably the GH-2 (although I do not like the amount of plastic here).
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I agree it is difficult. I am more for panasonic due to their compactness (even the fast primes), but the sensor performance of NEX 5 throws in the confusion. Olys, Qs, and Vs are not even in my scope. I am not in the hurry will see how the things are changing in the future.
Thanks for your opinion.