fuji x-e1 vs olympus omd e5 ?? which is a better travel camera ?

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fuji x-e1 vs olympus omd e5 ?? which is a better travel camera ?
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i have been considering buying a new camera for a while now. i love trekking and travelling and would like a small sized camera that will take a fair amount of beating and be able to take excellent pictures, in other words an excellent all round travel camera. i did a quick comparison of fuji x-pro1 (x-e1 is still not available) and olympus omd and nikon d600 and nikon d800 using the photo comparison tool of dpreview (because the comparison needed atleast four cameras ... ). i must say i have been very impressed by the performance of both fuji and oly. in terms of image quality, the oly and fuji seem evenly matched up until around iso 1600 and there after the fuji seems to pull ahead of oly with its nicer and cleaner images. but the oly images seem more pleasing when compared to fuji at lower iso or normal lighting conditions.

the auto focusing issue with fuji is probably not a deal breaker because i do tend to use manual focusing a lot. what worries me is that with x-pro1, even manual focusing seemed to have issues. i'm presuming that the performance of x-pro1 and x-e1 would be similar. i really do wish that dpreview carries out a real world side by side testing for cameras such as om-d and x-e1.

if ever there was measure such as IQ/(camera weight or camera vol) ... i will say that both fuji and oly are more than a match for the full frame nikons ... but i guess there really is no such universal measure for image quality ...

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