SuPrBuGmAn
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Without going dSLR, I think the G10 is probably your best bet.
I'm due for a couple new poster sized prints, and I have a few photos that GlenFWB took of me with his G10 that would be ontop of that list.
Want the quality of a dSLR, without the bulk? Give the market another year. Olympus just came out with the EP-1, which is an electronic viewfinder interchangable lense camera(EVIL - yup, yup!). It sports a dSLR sensor in a camera body sized smaller than some prosumer PnS's. Panasonic also has one, but its larger(like a large prosumer PnS). This will be a new segment in cameras and you can bet your ass that other camera companies will have to bring out their own models to compete. For UW photographers, this means you can have uncomprimised quality(read as there's no image quality degradation compared to the current match of dSLRs), with interchangable lenses(matched quality as well), in a MUCH smaller package(bodies and lenses are smaller). Since they're smaller, I'm guessing the housings will be cheaper as well. Not to mention they'll be easier to handle and swim beneath the surface.
I thought I was cool for having a dSLR that I could pair a pancake lense to and stick in my pants pocket(E420, which is tiny compared to my E1). Comparatively, the E420 is huge, and no where near as sexy as the EP1.
Just think about what the rest of the market will be throwing into the mix in a year or so?
I'm due for a couple new poster sized prints, and I have a few photos that GlenFWB took of me with his G10 that would be ontop of that list.
Want the quality of a dSLR, without the bulk? Give the market another year. Olympus just came out with the EP-1, which is an electronic viewfinder interchangable lense camera(EVIL - yup, yup!). It sports a dSLR sensor in a camera body sized smaller than some prosumer PnS's. Panasonic also has one, but its larger(like a large prosumer PnS). This will be a new segment in cameras and you can bet your ass that other camera companies will have to bring out their own models to compete. For UW photographers, this means you can have uncomprimised quality(read as there's no image quality degradation compared to the current match of dSLRs), with interchangable lenses(matched quality as well), in a MUCH smaller package(bodies and lenses are smaller). Since they're smaller, I'm guessing the housings will be cheaper as well. Not to mention they'll be easier to handle and swim beneath the surface.
I thought I was cool for having a dSLR that I could pair a pancake lense to and stick in my pants pocket(E420, which is tiny compared to my E1). Comparatively, the E420 is huge, and no where near as sexy as the EP1.
Just think about what the rest of the market will be throwing into the mix in a year or so?