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(Camera: Samsung NX10)
All these worthy cameras can make great pictures but, in the most miserable plight a camera can have fallen, are eating dust in the rag-a-bone's kiosk with whatchamacallum ranging from old porcelain goddess statues to, er, these forsaken film friends.
Fact is, there are lots more "old" digital cameras with the same plight. The only difference is that we have them eating dust at home. With the ever shorter life cycle, new digital cameras will become likewise sooner after the better days they can see in the hand of their buyers.
While GX Garnerings hasn't tried all the new serious compact cameras, the NX100 in my hand is the 9th new serious compact cameras tested in less than a year (another three were tested but reports weren't written). This speak volumes for their shortened life span. For some cameras, I won't miss them the next minute after returning to the company. But I felt rather reluctant to depart with and actually hope to order afterwards those cameras which (distribution by factors in %):
- suit my photographic needs and style (50%)
- sell at an affordable price (15%)
- have great ergonomics (15%)
- boost good image quality up at ISO800/ and up (10%)
- have a wide choice of lenses (10%)
Here, the factor of IQ is not a major consideration because the IQ of those comparable cameras are, in real life shooting, similarly competitive. In fact, IQ is not very relevant to a camera in real life shooting -- unless you always do large prints -- just as it is irrelevant when the owners decide to throw that camera away sooner or later. In the digital era, sooner than later.
All these worthy cameras can make great pictures but, in the most miserable plight a camera can have fallen, are eating dust in the rag-a-bone's kiosk with whatchamacallum ranging from old porcelain goddess statues to, er, these forsaken film friends.
Fact is, there are lots more "old" digital cameras with the same plight. The only difference is that we have them eating dust at home. With the ever shorter life cycle, new digital cameras will become likewise sooner after the better days they can see in the hand of their buyers.
While GX Garnerings hasn't tried all the new serious compact cameras, the NX100 in my hand is the 9th new serious compact cameras tested in less than a year (another three were tested but reports weren't written). This speak volumes for their shortened life span. For some cameras, I won't miss them the next minute after returning to the company. But I felt rather reluctant to depart with and actually hope to order afterwards those cameras which (distribution by factors in %):
- suit my photographic needs and style (50%)
- sell at an affordable price (15%)
- have great ergonomics (15%)
- boost good image quality up at ISO800/ and up (10%)
- have a wide choice of lenses (10%)
Here, the factor of IQ is not a major consideration because the IQ of those comparable cameras are, in real life shooting, similarly competitive. In fact, IQ is not very relevant to a camera in real life shooting -- unless you always do large prints -- just as it is irrelevant when the owners decide to throw that camera away sooner or later. In the digital era, sooner than later.
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