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Wow now that this is an actioncamera, But it still looks rather fat compared to Sealife DC2000 which I read also is shockproof and waterproof. 1" sensor, 31mm equivalent lens and f/1.8 while the RX0 is just f4 despite the thickness of the camerabody.
https://dpreview.com/forums/thread/4194773

However Nikon has got this one right or wrong remains to be seen. Too often when they are under pressure and release a new camera they gets something wrong like with the D600 or the left-side AF points with D800 or some weak soldering in the first gen Nikon D70 which affected several users back then.
The first Nikon D1 series, including the D100 (based on the N/F80 film-body) was pretty reliable as far as I remember and I still have my D1H which works pretty well except for the Nimh-batteries.
The problems for Nikon, in the digital age, seems to have begun with the D70 and D2H. The D70 which Nikon more or less had to rush to the market not to let Canon take too much of a market-share with their first Entry level dslr, the 300D
And there is more surely be more which I may have forgotten.
So, skip the talk about Nikon is no longer on the ropes shall we? Considering their current record they still have a reliability point or two to prove.

Ricoh entered this class already in september 2005 With the Ricoh Caplio R3 which have a 28 - 200mm zoom in a compact body. Dimensions 95 x 53 x 26.
It have IS as well as fast AF and good optical performance and fortunately very little noise reduction, though which not everyone liked.
https://dpreview.com/products/ricoh/compacts/ricoh_caplior3

Too bad but at this stage it was more or less expected to be abandoned at some point.

For sure not very good. The last of these three, think it was, the V705 had better image quality. Less NR. http://quesabesde.com/camaras/kodak-easyshare-v705/muestra/654261

Well. The aps-c TL 18-56mm have a length/depth of 60mm. Compare that to the Samsung NX 16-50mm which only is 31mm length and have very similar widest apertures compared to Leica 18-56mm. Add to that the Samsung-lens have Optical image stabilisation unlike the Leica-zoom. As far as i can find in Dpreview specs for Leica TL it don't have in camera image stabilisation either. Somewhat surprising.
https://dpreview.com/products/samsung/lenses/samsung_16_50_3p5-5p6_pz_ois
https://dpreview.com/products/leica/lenses/leica-t-18-56-3p5-5p6

Shame that samsung pulled out of the camera business just when they had begun to really get it right and catch up well with NX1 and NX500.

So it is only the color which can be Titanium for this camera, but no the body material which is said to still be Aluminium, right?
I've a 2002 Contax TVS Digital and most of the utter body/shell materials are made of realTitanium and also a sapphire release button http://contaxcameras.co.uk/digital/tvsdigital/tvsdigitaloverview.html
A superb little camera which was expensive as new but I bought my used a couple of years ago and have used it quite a lot and still do so alongside my Leica X1 which I bought not very long ago.

If Leica was to offer some decent pancake-primes like Samsung did with their aps-c NX-mount or a small collapsible zoom which Panasonic made. Then I actually might be a little more interested in the Leica T-system despite not using FF sensors.

I would presume that the PanaLeica edition have longer warranty than Panasonic's own version. And yes, of course you mainly pay for the red dot as well a little unless you like me buy a real Leica like the X1 which have no Panasonic equivalent.

Next in the line of Dslrs should be the Nikon D1 or Contax N Digital.

Wow that Wimius is a joke when it comes to jpeg quality. I don't think I've ever seen such a waterpainting.

Ricoh GR and Nikon Coolpix A is likely better cameras overall. Is that a problem?
I believe the problem is Fujifilm probably didn't try hard and well enough with the X70 to get the better of GR and Coolpix A.
After all no cameras are perfect and these three seems to have their individual strengths and weaknesses.

Fujifilm may be able to bounce back on top if they get it right with the X70S or X70T or whatever the upgraded X70 will be called when they think it is time to upgrade it with the 24mp sensor. But I would guess that they start to upgrade the X100 series first the last upgrade there was in september 2014.
Then if they keep the same lens or not I don't know.

The NV series was Samsung's premium compacts with some of them having their zoom branded as Schneider-Kreuznach, back then in 06 to mid 08.
The Samsung NV7 OPS, also from 06, was an other interesting camera in the NV series. https://dpreview.com/reviews/samsungnv7

The NR issues for the NV series began already in 07 with NV15 and NV20 which used same zoom as NV10 but 12mp in NV20 instead of 10mp. I don't know however NV8 with same zoom but 8mp from 07 have NR issues or not, as for the NV11 which is 10mp

Unfortunately it was almost only the early NV-compacts which used not too much noise reduction. In 08, with NV24HD, NV30/40 and NV100HD, Samsung used too much detail-ruining NR (which not could be turned down or off) with the NV4 as the only exception as far as I know.

I still have my Samsung L74 Wide which is from 07. Despite the lens being branded "Samsung NV lens" it was not a member of the NV series. But it don't use too much NR despite the small sensor.

My first digital camera was the Nikon Coolpix 700 which I bought in 2000, I think it was. A pretty good camera then with a fixed focal length of equivalent 35mm. Much have happened since then.

While it is not much of an upgrade, at least it is better than no upgrade at all. Seems like Leica have something to learn from Ricoh, the way they support their GR cameras over a two-year period of time.

RIP M.R

I've recently bought another R3 as my current one have got bad in the way that it now only uses the slow ccd-AF at the long end of the zoom.
I'm looking to maybe add a R5 as well. These two seems to be the best of the first generation Ricoh travel zoom compacts before they renamed it to "CX" I've had a R8 but didn't like it a lot because of the NR problem and slow AF and the R10 is worse as far as image quality go. Ricoh began to lose it with the R6 which no longer had PDAF sensors and also slowly began to use more NR than in the previous models.
I've a CX4 which I not use much because of NR problem ther too. Sometimes the noise looks like some weird fog which ruins the pictures. I don't have that problem with the R3.
The by now somewhat old Canon Powershot SX230 recently became my choice for travelzoom compact with built in Gps.
It almost surely won't beat the R3 for AF speed and uses somewhat more NR. But I don't think it will be to be too bad as a complement to the R3.

"Enter Panasonic, a company with a long history of making travel zoom cameras. In fact, the company made what many would consider the first one: the DMC-TZ1, way back in 2006."

I don't quite agree with that. In fact, the smaller Ricoh Caplio R3 was announced in september 2005 compared to february 2006 for TZ1.
http://dpreview.com/products/ricoh/compacts/ricoh_caplior3
http://dpreview.com/products/panasonic/compacts/panasonic_dmctz1

Dpreview however didn't review the R3 unlike many other photography review sites.

While I surely may agree about that I'll also mention that that these cameras are more different than one may think.
Q have fast lens and FF sensor but looks somewhat big and bulky - Coolpix A, GR and X70 is pocketable, but have slower widest aperture and aps-c sensor.
Q also cost a lot more not only because it is FF.
Dpreview might as well compare it to Sony RX1 IIR and that would be another not optimal comparison due the the different focal length.

So, no GPS connectivity at all? Pretty bad if that's it, otherwise I might have been interested in the 18-50 or 24-85mm. The Wi-fi and Bluetooth connections seems only to be used for remote-control and "sharing" with Snapbridge :/
Seems like I'll go with my somewhat bulky Ricoh Caplio 500SE with the Gps for another year. That's not too bad as the image quality is reasonably good but it is a little bulkier than I would like.

The video quality better be good this time.. Last time with the WG-M1 they destroyed details pretty well with too much NR. https://youtube.com/watch?v=koLbxGYLxF4
Luckily I didn't buy one back then and probably not this time either. This "Ricoh-camera" is probably not even designed by Ricoh, but Sanyo which also made the Ricoh WG-4 and WG-5 gps.