Have you given a thought to the possibility that it may not be the camera that lacks "near DSLR quality" but the shooter?
My question is not intended to judge your skills as a photographer. Just about everyone here can probably agree that great gear does not always result in great images and there is plenty of evidence to be found that supports the theory that in fact, expensive cameras can lead to photographic disasters in the wrong hands.
I'll give you an example. Having come from the DSLR camp and now an avid M43 user, I have tried many different types of cameras including most of the small sensor compacts. Fascinated by the RX10, it wasn't long before I purchased one, and then sold it soon after I took it on a trip to California. Why did I sell it? For you to understand the reason, I have to explain GDS, the close relative of GAS, or Gear Acquisition Syndrome. GDS is Gear Displacement Syndrome (or a fart, as I call it). What happens when you get gas is you build up pressure (too many cameras, not enough money, concerned spouse and ultimately, a nervous breakdown) and that pressure has to be released somehow. In my case, the RX10 had to be farted out to make way for more and "better" gear. The problem with GDS is that it's very similar to the "grass is greener on the other side" delusion. My opinion at the time was that even though I really liked the RX10, for it's price and size, I might as well have a better camera and some lenses which should get me better IQ (IQ=Insanity Quotient) . That is what I told myself anyway (IQ soon leads to talking to one's self).
Now the story takes a twist. I have discovered that Adobe Lightroom was designed by evil scientists not only to develop images but to recall them. Those diabolical fiends made it possible for the gullible "enthusiast" to look back and filter images by camera model. This is a horrible thing because you get to see your images a second time and the problem with that is that they look much, much better when you don't have the darn camera any more!
So I browsed (like an idiot) through my past shots with the RX10 and it dawned on me that they looked pretty darn nice.
RX10 Sample Gallery from the Dark... I mean, Lightroom In fact, I seemed to recall how much fun I had not changing lenses (another invention of evil scientists who concurrently spawned the fried chicken franchise thus leading to more dropped lenses due to greasy fingers) and still had the ability to basically take any shot I wanted in almost any light and circumstance. Certainly, this couldn't be the intent of the Illuminati of the camera world (Nikon and Canon) so, it must have slipped by the marketing department at Sony and Panasonic who were too busy selling LED TV sets and Hi-Fi head units for gangsta tuners. If you don't know who a tuner is, you're pretty old. Anyway, since the slip up that resulted in the obviously mistaken release of the RX10 and FZ1000, there have been no further upgrades or releases thus proving two points in my opinion. #1, they can't improve on perfection and #2, the engineers that let the two best cameras ever made slip past the Programmed Obsolescence Department (or POD), were summarily executed by firing squad (that'll teach 'em).
So, back to my point. It wasn't the RX10 that was the problem, it was
me that was the problem because I had a tool at my disposal that quite frankly, none of my DSLR's could really even compete with (it's not all about image quality, it's about fun) and yet I was too stupid (literally) to realize it and learn how to use the marvelous RX10 (same image quality as the FZ1000) with greater skill. Because it certainly was more than capable of producing the sort of images that make you want to rebuy the camera the second time you look at them. But this time, I purchased the FZ1000. It's coming tomorrow, brand new from Amazon. I look at it this way, somebody's got to fight the evil scientists who are bent on destroying the 1" sensor idea. It must not die!
And if so what would be price of this lens? I understand you dont like the IQ of the pictures from FZ1000, fine but how can you compare it with FF? I really dont understand you people. Do you compare ferrari with hummer? Or Cesna with boeing 747...I dont think so. LoL
