rgonzale
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This looks like the year I'll finally replace my 6-yr old compact ;-)
My favorite camera was the Minox 35EL, which I researched like crazy and bought in Panama when I was a teenager. Full-frame 35mm, fixed 35mm f/2.8 lens, pocketable, 8oz. I took some of my best pictures with it before flipping a canoe in a lake in Minnesota. I inadvertently started a flamewar in another forum complaining that there's nothing like this after 35 years of technological advances. Finally the X100 comes really close!
Of course we're accustomed to more features now. Maybe if you stripped the X100 of autofocus in favor of the Minox's "guesstimation" dial, ditched the LCD in favor of a little glass window, made it lightweight plastic, etc you could get it closer to the Minox's dimensions. Film made the engineer's life a lot easier...
But I'm spoiled now and am backing off from the X100 after realizing that in spite of its small sensor the Olympus XZ-1 will probably produce better bokeh, is smaller and has 28mm-112mm zoom. And the images I saw on dpreview's samples have nice sharpness and clarity at least at low ISO. Also the price is less divorce-friendly ;-)
My favorite camera was the Minox 35EL, which I researched like crazy and bought in Panama when I was a teenager. Full-frame 35mm, fixed 35mm f/2.8 lens, pocketable, 8oz. I took some of my best pictures with it before flipping a canoe in a lake in Minnesota. I inadvertently started a flamewar in another forum complaining that there's nothing like this after 35 years of technological advances. Finally the X100 comes really close!
Of course we're accustomed to more features now. Maybe if you stripped the X100 of autofocus in favor of the Minox's "guesstimation" dial, ditched the LCD in favor of a little glass window, made it lightweight plastic, etc you could get it closer to the Minox's dimensions. Film made the engineer's life a lot easier...
But I'm spoiled now and am backing off from the X100 after realizing that in spite of its small sensor the Olympus XZ-1 will probably produce better bokeh, is smaller and has 28mm-112mm zoom. And the images I saw on dpreview's samples have nice sharpness and clarity at least at low ISO. Also the price is less divorce-friendly ;-)