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Quality compact camera with great image quality.
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It is a very good camera for beginners and professionals. With extra lenses it is possible to make better quality makro etc.. pictures. Great deal!!!
amazing camera......... makes very nice pictures ... but it is desirable to have more zoom..........this is my opinion
Not really being up to date with a lot of the clever technical features these modern cameras have I focused on lens quality and after much debate I picked the xz-1 - the speed of this lens is phenomenal, the quality of the pictures is outstanding and having used it for about a month now and convinced I made the right choice... and not just because of the lens but also the nifty art modes that give it a fantastic edge over my much older Nikon DSLR. The relatively small zoom doesn't bother me as much as I thought it might, am not really bothered by the less than brilliant video mode (I have a separate digital video camera for that anyway) and the only niggle is the manual lens cover, which I have replaced with a screw on automatic cover... I paid around £220 on ebay and reckon I've got a bargin - technology comes and goes but by getting the basics right - the lens, good build quality, sensor size, availability of lots of screen info (as you might in an DSLR) and RAW as well as JPEG capture, you end up with a product that will survive its basic technological redundancy (which these days seems to come around every year or so). I'm not a gifted photographer and not a technical geek who knows alot about tweeking photos but this camera does make me want to go out and experiment, to think about the scenes I see around me everyday and just enjoy having a camera that will do a fantastic job. I carry it with me in the car at all times and after a few doubts (basically - working out how to use it properly) love this camera as much as I did my first compact (ironically, another Olympus, the Olympus Trip 35).Read full review
Since Panasonic picture quality has dropped off due to cramming too many pixels onto small sensors and ever increasing zoom, ranges, I was looking for something equal in quality to the old Panasonic/Leica combination. The XZ-1 seems to fit the bill. Superb quality lens, with f1.8 as a bonus and a sensible 10MP sensor produce really sharp detailed images.