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Kodachrome200: olympus please make a fast 25mm lens please

IrishhAndy: Thought I'd get in before the crowds. Looks like a nice cam but over prived and a kick in the teeth for XE 1 owners.

Kokeen4231: I wonder how this sensor can compete with 1" sensor found in the rx100.

klopus: "Challenging Facebook/Instagram's photo sharing dominance, the new Snapseed update..."

Why press always confuses Instagram with image editors? Instagram is first and foremost a proprietary cloud based image sharing social service, sort of visual Twitter. That's what defined its success and not a middling set of filters and rudimentary image editing tacked inside the app. Before Instagram there were gobs of much more powerful and easy to use editors that allowed to share images to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, etc.

simon65: "We do find some questionable decisions, the most obvious being the lack of a touchscreen"

I ask you to consider that touchscreens may be more popular in the DPR office than in the market generally. I would far rather find easily accessible external controls (like the new top dial) and lens rings that can change apertures than I would touchscreen.

But then I also have no interest in wifi. I have no use for it, and its certainly not something I wish to pay extra for. My usb cable works just fine and doesn't clutter up the household environment with yet more needless EMF radiation.

All in all I upgrade when a camera offers a discernible increase in IQ, build quality and external controls, and new breakthroughs in sensor/weight/size ratios (ie bigger sensors in smaller cameras). Sony is definitely moving in the right direction in all these areas, which is why I am now in the Sony rather than the Canon camp, but touchscreens, wifi, and assorted gizmoes move me not.

marike6: Fuji will get my money but for the X-E1. I do like the design of this camera, but a few of the specs fall short for the price. For this money, I'd say the X10 is a much, much better deal and a better shooter, albiet at a larger body size.

SteveNunez: Pricing is disappointing......Panasonic has a chance here to lure prosumers to micro four thirds with high quality glass but if priced at near dslr like prices the enticement wanes a bit......sad really!

SheikYerbouti: A zoom lens on a rangefinder type of camera seems to be going against everything that rangefinders were originally designed for. But, as Fuji have demonstrated with their X-Pro1 and X-E1 cameras, it can be done quite elegantly. Still, I'm wondering how useful and how intuitive a zoom will be on these cameras? To me a zoom makes much more sense on an SLR because its through-the-lens view is more suitable for framing and composing an image with a zoom. I think rangefinder photographers are better off with 2, 3 or 4 excellent prime lenses in the bag ...

... which gives me an idea: Wouldn't it be nice if at some point in the future Fuji introduced a high quality, compact, K-5-style SLR that made use of their amazing X-Trans sensor? Maybe Photokina 2014 would be the right time to announce such a camera?