small point / shoot - low light
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Anyone can think of a small point / shoot that can do well in low light?
- goldieboy0
I think you've just made Hombre's Friday
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Nice.
Is casio still the slimmest camera out there?
- iheartfun0
I believe so....
casio slim - 3.7”(W) x 2.2”(H) x 0.76”(D)
sony Tx series - 3 3/4" x 2 1/4" x 11/16"- I love my sony and it really does does good on the low light. Have the tx5iheartfun
- wouldnt the casio be thicker?
0.76" ~ 12/16supersimple
- ********0
sony point and shoot looks the best at that size
- ********0
Maybe I should go back to using Fuji x100
its about an inch thicker but may get better performance?
- doesnotexist0
lumix
- 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!
- monospaced0
Canon S100 is coming out next month and is replacing the S95 with even better performance in low light. Also, JSK, you're involved in several threads of this very topic already, aren't you? Didn't you just buy that Ricoh?
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- Every thread is different. I wasnt looking for a compact. I want a compact for an event.********
- Where I can't carry a visible camera.********
- scarabin0
just got the sony HX9V and it's brilliant in low light. lots of other cool features as well
- hx9v has amazing video
too!!
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Hombre_Lobo - (gf typed that last bit, she's funny)Hombre_Lobo
- "funny" funny?monospaced
- hahascarabin
- hx9v has amazing video
- ********0
Thanks hombre I will look in to those.
Aside from that I did get Ricoh GXR its great but its too big, especially with a M Mount.
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Some samples:
Ricoh GXR A12 M-Mount with Leica 50mm 1.4 ASPH
- Atkinson0
S100 / ricoh grd4 are both out next month. Both look excellent. Those slim sonys look ace, I just wonder how ergonomic they can be?
- you and your ricohs!! they are kinda cult arent they :)Hombre_Lobo
- Atkinson0
Ha yes they have a cult status. If youve never used one you should try it. Built like a tank, best UI ever, great natural colours without the usual oversaturation. Snap function is amazing and low light is brilliant. Nothing better for it's size unless you need 1080 movie or zoom. Then I guess the s100.
