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[CL]

[...] I bought was Minolta 50mm f1,7 and after I took few 100 pictures I'm impressed. 25+ year old lens but pictures are razor sharp, lens produces bokeh like I never experienced before and Minolta colors are still what they were few decades ago…

Awesome. Sounds very good. Drop me a PM if you have your photo's online anywhere, be interested to see.

[Brianne]

In case you missed them, OMD review by Kai at DigitalRev and Steve Huff (links open in new tab). The 45mm 1.8 sounds awesome.

It is awesome for such a small package
Compact and light and razor sharp
Picked up the Oly 45 f1.8 earlier in the year, lovely lens

[petesie]

Big Camera in Thailand are offering the Fuji XPro 1 for 75,990 THB....

No mention of the OMD yet.

[CL]

In case you missed them, OMD review by Kai at DigitalRev and Steve Huff (links open in new tab). The 45mm 1.8 sounds awesome.

It is awesome for such a small package
Compact and light and razor sharp
Picked up the Oly 45 f1.8 earlier in the year, lovely lens

Cool! Would love to see some examples. Together with its responsiveness and usability, very tempting.

[CL]

http://www.dpreview....s/olympusem5/22

Although I am starting to think it's just a pimped out PEN, not bad necessarily but not what I am looking for

[petesie]

I had some issues with my wee Fuji X-10...I've never been fond of twisting the lens to power it up and it is intermittent...

In addition unless you have a play with the lens prior to shooting it has focussing problems. Sturdy as it may be the paint finish is starting to wear off even though it's only 2 months old.

Bugga...

[pacman]

I hope you persevere. I noticed you had some focussing issues, ask your dealer what's going on. It may be a bug or just your camera.

My friend who recently bought an X10 couldn't be happier & he has taken some excellent shots. No focus problems & pictures equal to any DSLR.

Or it may not be the camera...

[Hoot]

I had some issues with my wee Fuji X-10...I've never been fond of twisting the lens to power it up and it is intermittent...

In addition unless you have a play with the lens prior to shooting it has focussing problems. Sturdy as it may be the paint finish is starting to wear off even though it's only 2 months old.

Bugga...

Sure, blame the camera. With the amount of booze you ingested this trip, I'm surprised you managed to find the power button much less focus...

[CL]

I had some issues with my wee Fuji X-10...I've never been fond of twisting the lens to power it up and it is intermittent...

In addition unless you have a play with the lens prior to shooting it has focussing problems. Sturdy as it may be the paint finish is starting to wear off even though it's only 2 months old.

Bugga...

Sure, blame the camera. With the amount of booze you ingested this trip, I'm surprised you managed to find the power button much less focus...

Me too. Considering there is none on the x-10

Petesie: what average shutter speed are your photo's take at? (assuming you shoot it wide open...).

[petesie]

You lot don't know me at all...

[petesie]

I had to buy a replacement battery charger for my D300s this evening and had the opportunity to try the new Nikon bridge camera the P510.

Wow...fantastic lens with built in VR and 42 x optical zoom & 16.2 mp...simple to use and the most easy going comfortable lightest camera I've ever had the pleasure of getting to grips with.

Seriously tempting..the pics I took in the shop were of stunning quality.

My X10 is now up for grabs...

[CL]

[...] the new Nikon bridge camera the P510.

Niice. But easy to achieve sharp images these days with any camera, in normal lighting conditions. If you want a versatile camera for different (natural) lighting situation and creative approaches you need to consider a few other things such as speed of glass, sensor size, etc. If you want to avoid flat or unflattering images through flash you need to consider a few more things. Note I write this based on my shooting style and preference, which differs for all of us.

For the type of shots you make and your preferred style of shooting (and those are assumptions based on what I see here :-) ) and assuming you dont want to use Flash and have some sort of manual control, the OMD may be the best choice. It has the best combination of performance metrics (sensor, AF, IS, etc.) and with say the standard zoom that comes with the body and the Panasonic AF 25mm 1.4 you'll be ready to rock in pretty much any situation.

Use the zoom for travel shots at around f/2.8-5.6, use the 25mm for bar and in-room (50mm equivalent). When you shoot the 25mm set it to auto ISO, auto-WB, max IS, set shutter speed to 1/60 (or 1/125 if you're shaky) and shoot wide open at 1.4. Focus on your target first by half press shutter button, then compose keeping the shutter button half pressed and then fire when you're ready. Change the distance between lens and subject to play with DOF. The outcome is the best you will be able to achieve with any set up given natural light conditions, unless you also crank up the ISO to max also. If the model is dark and the background light crank up the exposure compensation to +1-ish to balance your shots contrast and exposure.

There is another route to optimizing performance on these types of camera's but that involves MF and ultra high speed glass, different approach.

If you want to shoot full auto everything, one zoom lens, with flash, the X10 you have is lovely, arguable the best compact around, you can get a lot out of that one.

Again, ultimately depends what you want, how you want it and more importantly what you do with any camera you use.