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Of course, I get what you're saying and makes perfect sense.  I'm not too demanding, so that was just a quick and dirt round to make sure the ZS100 passes.  Given the much larger lens on the RX10 ...

I upgraded from the RX100M3 to the M4 myself and saw absolutely no improvements in picture quality, and have stated on various threads that came up that it's *not* worth the expense to upgrade ...

The lower one is the ZS100 on both samples.  You can see them all in my gallery which includes RX100 samples.

I would think that if I stopped down the RX10 two stops to f5.6 to match the ZS100, that it should be quite a bit sharper.  I chose to compare them wide open, to be a fair comparison.  I am ...

Well, if I stopped down the Sony by two stops to f5.6, it would be unfair to the ZS100 which is f5.9 "wide open", and the ZS100 only goes to f8.

I posted this a while ago, comparing the ZS100 against the Sony RX10 and RX100. I expected the ZS100 to be far behind the RX10 in terms of sharpness, but am pleasantly surprised. http://www.dprevie ...

Glad you find it helpful.  It's a great camera.  Enjoy!

Yes it's a trade of.  I've taken my RX10 to the kids' school concert.  It needed ISO3200-6400 at f2.8 to get a decent shutter speed.  No way the ZS100 would've gotten me the same results.  But I ...

Yes, it was a bit surprising to me.  I expected the ZS100 to be quite a bit behind both my RX'es in terms of lens sharpness.  I've also owned the RX100M3 and M4.  That lens is quite a bit sharper ...

I really didn't have big expectation from the ZS100.  Fully expected a big compromise from essentially combining the RX10 and RX100 into a single camera.  It definitely exceeded my expectation. I'm ...

I didn't even notice until you pointed it out.  The RX10's jpegs are all slightly larger than the ZS100, perhaps that explains it? That fact that ZS100's sharpness is even comparable to the RX10 ...

I didn't experiment with it extensively yet.  Straight out of the box, the standard picture profile looked a bit flat, so I added +2 to contrast, sharpness, and saturation, and also -5 on NR. I ...

I posted this on the Panasonic forum. I'll post it here to see what you guys think. So far I am quite pleased. I think I'll be happy combining both the RXes into the ZS100, and go with my incoming ...

It's been a while since I owned a Panasonic camera. I think the last one was an LX3. I've owned many Panasonics before, including the original TZ1. Been buying almost all Sony's since the NEX5, ...

I too was surprised DPR published this review so quickly relative to other reviews in the past, and I'm not complaining. In fact in the middle of reading the review, I went ahead and ordered one, ...

Focal range being roughly equal, the bigger lens will usually yield better results.  I certainly didn't expect the much smaller ZS100 to equal the sharpness of the much larger FZ1000 or my current ...

Seems you already own a camera equipped with such lens ;)

To shrink the size of the camera from the FZ1000 to the ZS100, there's going to be compromises.  To get it to fit in a pocket and keep the 1" sensor while still having 25-250mm zoom, I'd say it's ...

I browsed ebay but nothing at the moment.  I did see the one your purchased.  That camera is new!  Had I seen that we would've had a bidding war with 5 seconds to go ;)  Guess I'll just have to ...