Funny, I also bought the D-Lux 4 shortly before leaving for China last month. That, together with the Epson P5000 and a big Nikon with 3 lenses was my travel kit for a month. I ended up taking about 2800 images with the Leica and 500 with the Nikon. So be forewarned: a really good P&S will induce you to leave the dSLR behind more often than you would expect.
If someone is interested in how the earthquake recovery in western China is coming along, here is a link to a an annotated gallery - all files taken with the D-Lux 4 (I had the Nikon with me, but never felt the need to pull it out)
http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p732824044
If someone is interested in how the earthquake recovery in western China is coming along, here is a link to a an annotated gallery - all files taken with the D-Lux 4 (I had the Nikon with me, but never felt the need to pull it out)
http://hahn.zenfolio.com/p732824044
Thomas
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just bought a little Leica D Lux for and am blown away with the images this thing is capable of creating.I've bought 5 point and shoot cameras (2 Nikon, a Lumix, a Canon G7) and this is the only one that has even come close to giving me the quality of photographs I want.Expensive. But cheap in the long run.Lea
On Feb 21, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Per Öfverbeck wrote:
21 feb 2009 kl. 18.07 skrev Andrew Paul Brooks:
....Also I picked up a Cannon G9 with the idea of this being my travel camera, as it's quite small, but I've found the images quality is not really as good as I'm looking for, can anyone recommend a compact which has images quality of a digi SLR(I have a D300 so would like a compact approching that)
....Last November I bought a Panasonic G1, and I recommend that you have a good look at it. It has a big sensor (same size as the Oympus dSLR´s), a very decent finder, and a swivelling screen that is great for unobtrusive shooting, or for getting unusual angles of view without crawling or climbing around.It is very light and compact, even with both lenses currently available (together, they cover the equivalent of 28 - 400 mm on a 35 mm camera).For my own shooting, it has replaced a Nikon D200 and several lenses, which should give an idea of the kind of image quality it is capable of. I´d take it on a trip around the world without one moment´s hesitation.
Per Öfverbeck
"In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates"
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