Sony gets creative with full frame sensors
Since Sony’s acquisition of Minolta, they’ve been throwing cameras at the market to see what sticks. This year in a lot of ways is no real exception. It’s safe to say that off all the camera companies, Sony is clearly the most willing to be adventurous with their products. A full frame fixed lens compact, […]
Compact, Mirrorless, Nikon, What?
So Nikon has announced their entry into the compact interchangeable lens camera market, I posted about it yesterday. Apparently the, “what the hell is this shit” reaction has been strong enough that DPReview felt they needed to come to Nikon’s defense on sensor size. Having slept on it, the more I have to wonder what […]
Mirrorless Compacts Finally Starting to find their Place?
Let me just get this out of the way. I don’t like these new-fangled mirror-less compact camera. I find them to be a solution in search of a problem, and am quite willing to talk anybody’s ear off about how and why there is almost always a better, if sometimes not actually available, solution to […]
The Fuji Finepix X100: A “Compact” Camera that almost makes Sense
On September 20, Fuji announced the latest addition to their Finepix line of “compact” cameras, the X100. Only the X100 has the potential to be much more than just a point and shoot level compact. It’s styling and is reminiscent of the rangefinders of yesteryear, and it’s controls are quite possibly the best designed I’ve seen yet.