Looks very nice. Lots of details to find out about. After the X10 and the G1X and now with this, the compact wars are really heating up. I'm gonna stick with my LX5 and GRD3 for the foreseeable future since I don't really shoot with compact much anyway. And wait to see what Panasonice and Ricoh and maybe Olympus and others come up with. The Sony looks very useable at 1600-2000 and sort of OK at 3200, kind of similar to the X10. And I didn't even want 16mp in my larger sensor cameras, so I'm more than a little annoyed at the thought of 20mp in a tiny compact. But I'm sure that's gonna be as nearly unavoidable in another year as 16mp or more is for m43 and APS these days. As long as they keep making the sensors better, I guess I can stop complaining about how much better they COULD be if they'd just cap the mp at something reasonable, like 10-12...
I'd bet by the end of the year or next spring at the latest we'll have a half dozen compacts competing on this turf, with larger sensors (the X10 probably being the smallest going forward?), better high ISO, good quick reflexes, hopefully faster lenses through the zoom range traded off for slightly larger size, etc. All cameras are getting better - why should compacts be any different???
-Ray