Yowza!
And, it's 35mm!!! 35, Ray, not 28!!! :tongue:
Hence, my restraint to this point! If it had been 28, I probably would have tried it right away and would have found a way to buy it. It's still one of the things that may keep me from it - I sold the X100 because I didn't really love the focal length. BUT, I was also still trying really hard to find
"the perfect street camera" at that time and I knew the X100 wasn't it and that contributed to me not using as much as I should have. I'm not under any illusion about the RX100 being something I'd use much as a street camera - all off my other cameras already play that role as well as I could ever hope for and my shooting style and images work pretty much the same with each, so I don't think I'm still looking for that.
So, if I buy it, I won't buy it with street shooting anywhere near the forefront of my thinking - i already know i can use it well enough in that context on occasion, but I'd clearly be buying it for other types of shooting, where I'm less religious about my focal length. I had a lot of fun with the new Olympus 17 the last few times I shot with it too, in a mixed context, and that probably pried my mind open a little about this. Although ironically that'll probably be a victim of the knife if I either buy this, or the X100s, or the Fuji 23 f1.4,
one of which is very likely to happen - m43's role seems to be changing quite a bit for me - probably mostly reduced to longer focal lengths (where the killer AF is really critical) and the 12mm so it remains one of those "perfect street camera" options. A big part of what has me hoping i keep this camera is a month vacation this summer we've already bought and paid for to a place with some of the most amazing light I've ever seen. There won't be a lot of street shooting there (not many streets!), so my emphasis will be really different. The kind of deep blue skies this camera was finding the other night, and water and plenty of natural and man made beauty, are EXACTLY the kind of thing I'm going to be after - in COLOR even, while we're having paradigm shifts - and I've never shot with a camera that handled that kind of light like this one.
It's still possible that after spending time with this and the X100s and the X-Pro, I'll decide that the Fuji sensor will do this same job well enough and I'll skip this camera - I'm in very early days right now and there's a very good chance I'll be less enamored with this camera after a month of use. OR that I'll be totally into the X100 or Coolpix A and simply decide I'd rather spend a whole lot less money on one of those. Or neither, and I might just eventually get this focal length for the X-Pro.
I'm blown away with this full frame sensor and beautiful lens right now. If I still am in a month, this will be my big camera buy this year. If not, it won't. I'll let you know how it goes!
-Ray