small point / shoot - low light
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- Hombre_Lobo0
Yooo JSK. You should get that nex 5n we were talking about. combine it with a 1.8 lens and boooooooooooom!
but in reply to your OP, ill paste the advice i gave to sea sea on low light compacts -
"Canon compacts are known for great macro, most of them can focus at 1 cm away from the lens! its insane.
Low light, excellent pics compacts -
olympus xz1 (f1.8)
canon s95 (f2)
lumix lx5 (f2)
EX1 / tl500(f1.8)Wide apertures so you can get the best DOF and low light pics you can with a compact camera sensor. The lumix lx5 and tl500 go to 24mm which gives them the widest lens of the bunch, which is nice.
Canon g10 is gorgeous, but for low light it has an f2.8 aperture so the other compacts will be much more beneficial.
Another thing people rarely mention is the aperture throughout the zoom range. The LX5 is the great for this, at full zoom the lx5 is f3.3 far better than the s95 f4.9, thats a huge amount more light the LX5 gets in at full zoom. It also means the lx5 will give a shallower DOF throughout the zoom range.
The Lx5 is slightly larger than the s95 though, but it has manual video control which the canon does not. I! between them is arguable.
The new olympus XZ1 trumps even the LX5 though.
My personal fave is the LX5, manual video, wide angle lens, wider apertures though the zoom (not as wide as the xz1 though), and its older so its quite a bit cheaper than the XZ1.
The XZ1 is great and you can attach the excellent Electronic viewfinder to it, which is also compatible with your E-pl1!
I hope that helps! :)
"Hope that does help!