SFJP
Senior Member
Strong points: An Incredible image quality: resolution, colors, sharpness, contrast. Can make professional quality prints up to 16x20 when used in its native 6 mp mode. The resolution is on par with a 4.5-5 mp camera, much better than a simple 3.3 mp camera. Best digicam system under 4,000$ in term of quality of the results. I have additional conversion lenses that provide an optical zoom range 28 mm to 320 mm. Very pleasant to handle, you find yourself taking much more pictures than with any other camera I have tried. Very well built, almost professional qulity feel, while light weight. Very complete camera, can be used as a P&S outdoor or as a serious prosumer camera thanks to all the possible settings.
Weak points: the EVF could be better, autofocus in very low light not accurate, hot pixels in night shots. The in-camera sharpening creates artifact visible when using 6 mp. But, just set sharpening to "soft" an you get the greatest quality pictures without artifacts. White balance auto does not work so well in indoor shots, manual balance settings not obvious for novices.
Weak points: the EVF could be better, autofocus in very low light not accurate, hot pixels in night shots. The in-camera sharpening creates artifact visible when using 6 mp. But, just set sharpening to "soft" an you get the greatest quality pictures without artifacts. White balance auto does not work so well in indoor shots, manual balance settings not obvious for novices.