Steve Desjardins asked: "Someone mentioned that some of the P&S cameras are starting to fill the niche rangefinders used to have. I'm not agreeing with this, but what is the highest quality P&S you can get?"
A quick trawl of DPR's database got me these: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Sigma/sigma_dp1.asp is a large sensor compact. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Ricoh/ricoh_grdigital2.asp is the latest digital version of the cultish GR series. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Nikon/nikon_cpp5100.asp & http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_g9.asp are Nikon's and Canon's highest spec versatile compacts. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Fujifilm/fujifilm_F100fd.asp is Fujifilm's latest in the cultish F**fd series. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Leica/leica_dlux3.asp is a very nice compact Leica. There's a clone Panasonic but I don't know its name. Mostly the cameras I chose are not ultra compact and usually have redeeming features to deserve cult status, such as exceptional low light performance, a good wide angle lens, good manual controls, good viewfinders (not just the rear LCD), RAW file saving, or they just look good. If a camera doesn't tick all the boxes it will be outstanding in one or more of the other criteria. It's not a definitive list, just my feelings. Regards, Anthony Farr. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
