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UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010
Welcome Session (23 June 2010), UN General Assembly Hall
Photo: UN Global Compact/Michael Dames
My husband gave me this beauty and I dearly love the Mother of Pearl glow. No details as to age or who made it. He bought it at an estate jewelry store. Very clean inside and mirrored.
Today Olympus announced the E-420, a refresh of their "world's smallest" DSLR: the E-410. The E-420 retains about the same weight and dimensions, which makes it roughly 20% smaller by volume and lighter than the entry-level models from Canon, Nikon, and Pentax.
But the real news is a new 25mm f/2.8 pancake lens, only 23.5mm (0.9 inches) long. Pentax already offers an even smaller 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens, but the larger size of the Pentax mount means the new Olympus ends up significantly shallower (25% shallower than the smallest Canon or Nikon setup). Olympus seems to finally be delivering on the promise of Four-Thirds: DSLR quality in a smaller package.
More choice is always welcome, and combined with the soon-to-be-available Sigma DP1, we are now starting to bridge the gulf between DSLR and non-DSLR digital cameras.
At the bottom end of the digital camera marketplace we have cameraphones, which essentially take no space and cost nothing, since you were buying and carrying your phone around anyway, right?
Next are the ultra-compacts, or "pants pocket" cameras. Here you'll find the camera I just bought, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35, as well as its slightly larger competitors, the Canon Powershot SD870 IS and Fujifilm FinePix F100fd. The Panasonic weighs about 50% more than my Motorola KRZR K1m, and is correspondingly larger, but still fits in my pants pocket. As a rough indicator of image quality, these ultra-compact sensors range from about 2.5x to 5x the size of a typical cameraphone's sensor. That's a big difference, and it's obvious in the pictures.
Until recently (with one exception), the only cameras with sensors larger than Fuji's were DSLRs. The smallest DSLR sensor - the Four-Thirds sensor used in Olympus and Panasonic DSLRs - was almost 5x larger than the Fuji F100fd's 1/1.6" sensor. Still larger were "full-frame" sensors used in higher-end Canon (and now Nikon) DSLRs. By my rough calculations, full-frame sensors are about 3.6x the area of Four-Thirds sensors, 17x that of the Fuji 1/1.6", 35x that of the 1/2.5" sensor most commonly used in ultra-compacts, and a whopping 89x the area of a cameraphone's sensor. The overall situation was that there was a smooth progression of compact camera sensor sizes from 1/4" through 1/1.6", and a spectrum of choices among DSLR sensors from 4/3" to full-frame, but a massive no man's land in between.
The exception was Sony's groundbreaking DSC-R1. For a number of reasons that particular model didn't set the world on fire, but it did point the way to a better future. The concept was simple: put a DSLR-sized sensor in a non-removable-lens compact camera. The actual product was a tough sell though: Sony needed to provide a wide zoom range, since this is what people expected in this category, but since lens size is directly proportional to sensor size, the camera ended up significantly bigger, heavier, and more expensive than an entry-level DSLR. It didn't matter that they included one hell of a lens for your $999; the rest of the camera just couldn't compete with cheaper DSLRs, and, in my experience, most people don't factor the cost of the lens into their camera-buying decisions.
Sony didn't follow up - soon afterwards, it entered the DSLR market. For the next year, there were no new products for those who wanted a compact but weren't satisfied with typical compact sensors.
Then came Leica digital. The Leica M8 sported the same relatively compact (albeit dense) dimensions of its film predecessors, but with an APS-H-sized (1.3x-crop) sensor. Although it was longer and weighed more than an entry-level DSLR, it was much shorter and shallower, and more importantly, rangefinder lenses were much smaller than equivalent SLR lenses. Assuming your stitches didn't burst under the strain of all that metal, a Leica could fit in your jacket pocket. And the image quality was at least on par with most DSLRs. There was only one catch: it cost $5500, with lens prices to match.
Fast forward another year-plus, and we're about to have two more mainstream options in the larger-sensor compact camera market. As I've already mentioned, there's Olympus' E-420 and its pancake lens. Then there is the truly groundbreaking Sigma DP1.
While the Olympus pancake kit is impressively compact, it's still almost as deep as it is tall. By contrast, the Sigma DP1 is only slightly larger and heavier than the impressively compact Panasonic DMC-TZ series of superzoom digicams, and is within the same "jacket pocket" class. The Olympus kit is 50% deeper, longer, much taller, and weighs almost twice as much. There is a catch, though, and again it is price. Probably like most people who owned a 35mm compact, my main reason for doing so was not compactness, but price. The Sigma DP1 has a street price of $800, which is $100 more than the Olympus pancake kit and 2-3x the price of a typical compact digicam.
So the current choices for a large-sensor compact camera are:
Leica: biggish, heavy, $7100 w/ 28mm f/2.8 lens
Olympus: big, fairly heavy, $700 w/ 25mm f/2.8 lens
Sigma: small, light, $800 w/ 16.6mm f/4 lens
As you can see, none of the three are direct competitors, even if they're all trying to fill the same need. My opinion is:
Leica: ludicrous price; not compact by my standards
Olympus: not small enough to make a difference in use
Sigma: the right choice, for the right price - which is under $500
You already know my actual choice: a conventional ultra-compact, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35. Price was the primary consideration. As I am generally happy with my DSLR, a compact is a second camera. Accordingly, I am not willing to pay as much as I did for my DSLR, and I want its features to complement, not duplicate, my DSLR's. Unlike the other choices, the Panny goes wider than my DSLR standard zoom, can go with me places I can't take a bag or jacket, and takes 720p movies. Yes, I am going to pay the price in image quality - but from what I can tell from sample photos, Panasonic doesn't give up much at small display sizes. I'll just have to adjust my expectations and only print small - isn't that how we were supposed to use miniature cameras before the rise of the megapixel?
As for Leica: you have to admit that a big chunk of the price is brand premium. But what is that brand worth when it's slapped on the front of every plastic wonder that comes out of the Panasonic factory?
On Wednesday, October 28th, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito signed Community Compacts with three communities: Brockton, Malden and Royalston. Compacts are an opportunity for cities and towns to choose their own best practices for promoting good local government, and in turn the state provides resources and incentives to help them achieve their goals. Learn more about the Community Compact program at mass.gov/ccc.
(Photo Credit: Joanne DeCaro)
Very rare Schuco bear that is also a ladies compact with face powder, a mirror and a section under the head that once would have held lipstick, a small trace of which can be seen.
A pretty, compact and well-maintained village about 15km south of Ronda. Entering Igualeja across a small bridge, a quiet narrow lane leads down to the Nacimento Genal (source of the River Genal). The clear waters flow from a small cave and into a number of pools, before finally running into a stream. Very attractive! There are plenty more photos of Igualeja and other Spanish towns if you take a look at my 'Sets' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
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