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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?
Walkabout the conference grounds of the Global compact on Migration
All Photo Copyright UN Photo/Mark Garten
05/07/2007 - GENEVA - SWITZERLAND- M Ban Ki moon ( G ) Secretaire general des Nations Unies discute avec des personnes apres son discours devantle Global Compact
au palais des Nations. A gauche M Sergei Orzdjondikidze Directeur general UNOG.
. Photo UN / Jean-Marc FERRE
(UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe)
Compact 24x36 peu courant en France. Objectif fixe Voigtländer Color-Skopar 50 mm 1:2.8(22) mise au point à partir de 1 m, Obturateur central Gauthier (AGC) Pronto-LK, 1/15 à 1/500 + B. Tous les réglages sont disponibles par bagues autour de l'objectif. Le viseur interne, fixe, affiche un cadre collimaté, L'aiguille de la cellule et son repère ne sont visibles que dans une fenêtre sur le capot.
H x l x p : 85 x 130 x 76 mm, 695 g. Fiche "SH".
Appareil compact APS fabriqué en Chine en 1999 avec viseur large ( XB ) collimaté et C.H.P., objectif 4,5/24 mm ( équivalent 30 mm) et obturateur 1/3 s à 1/250 s. Auto focus. Flash avec modes. Film APS iX, moteur et 1 pile CR 2. Retardateur et écrou de pied .
New Zealand.
The Hillman Imp and variants were a compact, rear-engined car. Variations included the upmarket Singer Chamois, and Sunbeam Sport. Fastback versions were the Hillman Imp Californian, Singer Chamois and Sunbeam Stiletto.
The high performance Sunbeam Sport was introduced in 1966 with twin side-draught Strombergs replacing the single Solex, a higher lift camshaft, bigger valves and improved cylinder head, power up from 42hp to 55hp. It was identifiable by different badging, chrome trim and a slatted engine cover.
In 1967, the Stiletto was launched. It mated the Hillman Imp Californian coupe bodyshell to the Sport engine, identified by its quad headlights.
The Hillman Imp was assembled by Chrysler Australia from 1964-67, and by Todd Motors in NZ from 1967-70.
Engine; Aluminium 875cc rear mounted on 45 degrees.
Nelson Classic Car Museum
Juan José Gomez Camacho, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations Office at Geneva during Conference opening of the Global Compact Migration. 19 June 2017. UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
blended in paint.net. please go all sizes and look at the blending on the stock as a lot of my time went into that area and i also included the crosshairs for the scope.
I can't find any info about this camera at all so any information would be greatly appreciated.
The lens seems to be fixed focus 50mm f4.5.
It takes 2 x AA batteries.
The timer makes a continous then interment beep ( not music!).
The flash is auto and can't be turned off.
The whole camera seems cheap and not Canon quality at all.
The rewind only works with film in the camera.
The styling is similiar to a goldline or kyushu compact camera.
Takes 35mm film.
Rund 150 Personen aus verschiedenen rechten Gruppen nahmen an einer Demonstration in #Strausberg teil. Unter den Teilnehmern Aktivisten der NPD, die Rechte, Identitäre Bewegung, Freie Kräfte Königs Wusterhausen, Compact und aus dem Umfeld des NW Berlin.
Ungefähr 200 Menschen versuchten den Aufmarsch teilweise zu blockieren oder zumindest in Hörweite Protest zu zeigen. Unter ihnen befand sich u.a. Helmuth, Markov, der Justizminister des Landes Brandenburg.
Die Polizei war mit etwa 500 Beamten, Räumpanzern und lt. Augenzeugen Wasserwerfern vor Ort. Ihre Hauptaufgabe war das Verhindern von spontanen Gegenprotest und die Behinderung der Pressearbeit von freien Journalisten.
Die Fotos unterstehen dem Copyright und können in druckbarer, also hochauflösender Qualität erfragt werden.