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What We as Compact Camera Users Wish for

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RIMG0811 (Medium)^The lady is picking what she preferred.

We have had a few polls since the start of GX GARNERINGS.  Here is a gist of the results for our two most recent polls.

imageIn one of the polls, we asked readers two questions about the GXR: What do they think Ricoh GXR is?  Are they going to buy the camera?

The poll has the smallest number of votes among all the polls at GX GARNERINGS.  Does this reveal something about the popularity of this camera?

Out of the 37 votes, most think that the Ricoh GXR is a newthink.  However, the notion that the GXR is a money-minded invention and doomed failure also gets as much votes combined.

As regards whether the voters are going to buy the camera, most reveals their intention to buy the APS-C size module on the condition that the price drops which are the two top voted items.

The small sensor module doesn't seem to have much chance to survive the choice of the voters.

In the other poll, we are interested to know what the most wanted features on serious compacts are.  The polls has carried on for 6 months.  There are a total of 375 votes received.  The options are (typo: electronic viewfinder):

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Multiple votes were allowed. The most wanted features from top down are:

Useable ISO 3200 (48%) 24mm focal length (44%) APS-C size sensor &
Leica-grade lens (42%)
optical viewfinder (40%) dust-/ rain-proof design (30%) Interchangeable lenses (23%)
electronic viewfinder (20%) HDR shooting (14%) HD video shooting (12%)
multi-focus shooting (11%) external flash included (10%) tiltable LCD (9%)
filter step-up rings included (8%) over 300mm focal length (6%) 3-D shooting (3%)
digitally coloured gradient filters (2%)    


I am a bit to see that not a lot of users care about interchangeable lenses.  As our readers are supposedly fans of serious compacts, the poll results speak some truth about the wishes of the customers in this segment of the market.  We are going to send this poll results to some makers of serious compact cameras.

*By "serious compact cameras", we refer to those compact cameras with a sensor of a larger size from 1/1.7" up.

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Charles said…
I want Ricoh to make a m4/3s camera. I like the fact they took a risk with the GX, but it's rather pricey. A m4/3s camera with their controls and a couple nice primes would really excite me.
1 March 2010 at 04:00
Nevin said…
Thank you for commenting, Charles.

When Ricoh announced the GXR, I gave it a hand. If Ricoh makes a MFT camera, I may give it both. But GXR is categorically Ricoh: does things its way. It is risky, yes.
3 March 2010 at 15:23
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