Hi all,
I bought this little camera and it is my first digital camera beside P&S.
Why I waited sooo long to get into the digital world and chose this particular camera ?
1) Because there is some sort of "traditional settings". I never get confortable with "menus", many press on the same button, back and forth. Here a glance at the top of the cam and I know the mode, the aperture, the speed, lovely, simple the way it should.
2) It is small enough to get in jacket pocket, a small waist pouch, you just have it with you.
3) Fix zoom lens with wide aperture, you avoid changing lenses and have no dust problem.
4) It has a very good viewfinder & back screen which is not a touch screen, that's a + for me, no accidental wrong settings. Because you see once you have adjusted a few parameters corresponding to your style, you are done. For example, the first I made was to limit auto-iso to 1600. Focusing with a screen finger tap ? Not precise at all, this cam has a much better device inside.
5) This camera benefit from the many improvements made during these last ten years and they numerous. One I like very much is the square format 1:1. Again with a glance you know where you stand and you don't need to deep into menus to change it.
6) You can print an A3 size with this cam with a much better quality than what we could get from the best 35mm.
After nearly fifty years of photography, having had so many cameras from 35 to LF, this little beast fulfill my needs.