Sorry Peter,
Ik ken de door jou genoemde camera's niet. Ik heb er maar een paar die eventueel door mijn selecties heen komen en ze staan allemaal in de onderstaande "review" van Thom Hogan. Ik ben zelf helemaal lyrisch over de LX2. Maar ik ken ook mensen die alleen maar klagen over ruis. Mensen die dat ook zullen doen met de Canon D1 Mark III en waarschijnlijk ook met de Canon D1 Mark VIIII...
P&S-jes hebben een kleine sensor en zijn per definitie ruisgevoeliger. Je moet ze gewoon alleen op hun laagste ISO gebruiken. Verwacht bovendien geen D2H(s) snelheidsmonsters. Ze zijn traag. Extreem traag. En gebruik de fliters ook niet.
Voordeel van een P&S met een beeldstabilisator is dat je tot 1/8sec uit de hand kunt fotograferen omdat je geen mirrorslam hebt. Met een DSLR is 1/60 vaak al het minimum daardoor. EV is daardoor vrijwel gelijk.
BRON :
http://www.bythom.com/compact.htm
1. Leica D-Lux 3 (also available as
Panasonic LX2). From a control standpoint, LeicaPano gets most things right. For running manual controls while shooting this camera shows it was designed by a photographer, whereas the rest appear to have been designed by Play Station junkies. The menus and deeper UI leave a lot to be desired though (try figuring out how format a card--at no point does LeicaPano use the word "format"!). The LCD is good. The speed is good. The shooting controls are excellent. The lens is outstanding, trumping everything else by a long shot. Unfortunately, the pixels are mush. Even at the base ISO looking at a 100% view you'll have a hard time seeing edges. Noise and NR conspire to ruin the low-level integrity of the data, making this really a camera that can't go beyond a modest print size. Still, my favorite of the bunch, by a fair margin.
2. Canon G7. All around decent, but seemingly excels at nothing. I shoot slightly more slowly with this than the Leica. The lens is not as good as the Leica's, but I'm much happier with the underlying pixel data, at least at the base ISO. The lens lets this camera down (too much CA and distortion, and it's a little slow in aperture). As others have written, it seems like the G7 is a step backward from the previous G series models--less professional and more amateur-oriented seems to be the design goal that was followed. I'll bet that didn't increase sales one bit.
3. Coolpix P5000. Overall, a disappointment. The biggest weakness is focus, which is slow, not manually controllable like the Leica, and often hunts uncontrollably in close up mode. The lens also is a bit underwhelming and slow in aperture at pretty much all but the wide end. On the flip side, it's small and has an optical finder, and the wide angle lens accessory is nice (though a bit dramatic on the front of the miniscule camera). As you might note from the front page picture as I post this, I've found I like the P5000 as a B&W camera. The one thing Nikon did that resonates is allow the full customization of B&W options, including virtual color filtration. Why they followed through on this but not on other functions is simply beyond my ability to understand; the design feels incomplete.
4. Fujifilm F30. The one-trick pony. If it's high ISO you need (indoor shooting without flash), this is the best of breed, without question. Fast startup and focus help, too. But the camera is let down by its proclivity to produce objectionable highlight detail and its limited manual control. You also won't like the use of xD cards. And, again, the lens is a wimp.
Ik gebruik zelf nog een LUMIX DMC-FX7 en ben daar nog steeds erg blij mee. Ondanks de slechte accu. De latere versies zijn inmiddels vele malen beter qua accu, LCD scherm, pixels, etc, etc. Boeie...!
