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Started Jan 15, 2014 | User reviews thread
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Tatouzou
Tatouzou Senior Member • Posts: 2,081
Great camera!

Bought it 9 months ago.

I started serious amator photography in 1969 with a Pentax Spotmatic.

I shoot mainly vacation landscapes and family portraits or social occasions.
And I prefer to avoid flashes: direct flash is ugly, except in sunny backlight, and bounce flash is bulky.

I own a Sony DSC-V1 (expert compact with razorsharp vario-sonnar len 33-132 f2,8-4) since may 2004 and a Pentax IST-DS DSLR with quite a bunch of lenses (transtandard and telezooms, plus 1,7-50 FA, or portrait in low light, and lots of legacy primes).

I do appreciate the DSLR Pentax, but I hate to carry it. Changing lenses is also an issue, because it requires your attention and may cause to miss some good shoots.

The Sony has been a very good performer up to now, and was the one I used to carry with me on vacations. But it does not have stabilisation and is limited to ISO 400 (ISO800 is usable but very noisy)

So I wanted to replace it by a new camera with the same kind of great lens, but with stabilization and lhigh ISO capacity.

The X10 is exactly what I needed (the X20 was announced in spring 2013, so i could buy the X10 ar nearly half price)

Direct 12mp JPEG from camera, compressed in postproduction, auto, F2,8, ISO 1600, 1/52

 Tatouzou's gear list:Tatouzou's gear list
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LF1 Pentax K-3 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8 Pentax smc DA 17-70mm F4.0 AL (IF) SDM +24 more
Fujifilm X10
12 megapixels • 2.8 screen • 28 – 112 mm (4×)
Announced: Sep 1, 2011
Tatouzou's score
4.5
Average community score
4.0
bad for good for
Kids / pets
excellent
Action / sports
good
Landscapes / scenery
excellent
Portraits
excellent
Low light (without flash)
great
Flash photography (social)
great
Studio / still life
unrated
= community average
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