On 11/7/2016 10:29 AM, ChrisB wrote:
I know that Bob has a RX100 MkIV, but does anyone else on the List have another
high-end compact that they can recommend?
Sure. Panny GM5 with 12-32 kit lens (24-64 eq.) ;-) If you need more reach, and can stand changing lenses for it, the
35-100 is also amazingly small, yet good.
I am thinking of the 1” sensor models, such as the Panny TZ100 or LX15.
Of the three you mention, the choice would be easy for me. The LX100 doesn't have a, EVF, so it's out for sometimes out
in the summer sun use. The FL range on the LX100 and RX100 isn't long enough to please me, as I know from experience
with other compacts (Most notably, the 28-140 G11 and 24-120 S100.) So it would be the ZS100 for me.
As it happens, I tend to bracket that category, as it seems not fish nor foul for me. I use either 4/3, as above, for
IQ, or a longer travel zoom with smaller sensor, for lesser, but still decent IQ, in good light and for zoom reach. My
current axe in that category is a Panny ZS50. It improves on the previous model with 12, vs. 18 MP - better lower light
performance - and an improved EVF, while the next model goes back to 18 MP and other 'improvements' that don't matter to me.
The first row and all of the second but the last image here were taken with the ZS40.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/Mexico/Cabo_2015> Most would not exist with a 3x
zoom camera.
For our recent trip, I carried a GM5 with 14-140 zoom when not using my serious, two camera kit. So far, I'm very
pleased with the results. No, not quite compact, but worked for me. I took the small 12-32 & 35-100 zoom pair along, but
didn't use them.
D. Strokes Moose
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