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DCresource (Click here) posted their Olympus XZ-1 review: “The XZ-1 is Olympus’ best compact camera in many years. It offers a good design, super-fast lens, beautiful OLED display, manual controls, and plenty of point-and-shoot toys. It does have its share of annoyances — perhaps more so than its competition (at least those cameras that I’ve used) — though I have to cut Olympus some slack, as this is their first generation model. The XZ-1 is absolutely worth your consideration — just be sure to check out the other models in its class before you buy.”
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Trustedreviews (Click here) posted their Olympus E-PL2 review: “Taking everything into account, we’d still be hard pressed to choose between this and the GF2, which only falls down in comparison because unlike the E-PL2 it doesn’t feature body integral anti shake, but is otherwise we feel more streamlined and slightly easier to use. The Olympus counters with its impressive and fun Art Filters, so ultimately a personal hands on is going to be the best way for you to make this particular purchase decision.”
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Great to see Olympus getting more and more good reviews on their recent camera’s. It should be read as an encouragement for the company that it’s recent approach of offering more refined and distingguished cameras is well received. By reviewers at least.
TheXZ- is a Really Nice camera! Got a chance to play with one a bit a few days ago. It’s solidly built and looks good.
Aside from Oly’s inefficient and convoluted menu system, the only major downside is that it’s too bad Olympus didn’t include AVCHD video mode.
I shot a 30 second bit and it was 128mb! 5 minutes of video on my GH2 (1080p, cinema mode, 24frames, high bit-rate) was about 400MB. 1.5 minutes in auto-mode was 42mb! I suppose Oly could add it in a firmware update.
Really like the XZ1, but the mediocre sensor makes me hesitate; it’s actually not any better than my old Canon G9 sensor from 2007: http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Camera-Sensor/Compare/Compare-sensors/(appareil1)/688|0/(appareil2)/667|0/(appareil3)/683|0/(onglet)/0/(brand)/Olympus/(brand2)/Canon/(brand3)/Panasonic
Supposedly it’s the same sensor as in the LX5 (or perhaps LX3)?
In my opinion a camera is alot more than the sensor only… The XZ-1 shouldnt be based on sensor only performance. If so, none of the reviews would give it good results since it has worse performance than the s95 for example.