What will be my next Quality Compact?

Time to upgrade my trusty Canon G9. 

Requirements:

• Good Image Quality
• Use in low light without flash
• Viewfinder
• Less than £500

Shortlist:

In order of current preference:

• Fuji X10
• Canon G2
• Nikon P7100
• Panasonic G3

Fuji X-10	Canon G12
Nikon P7100	Panasonic Lumix G3

Notes

The Fuji is great to hold and use, slightly larger sensor than G12 and P7100 but a more limited range (28-212mm 35mm equivalent) with a great view finder. Reviews and comments are good.

Canon is a sure bet, always at or near the top of quality compact reviews but only has 720 HD movie.

Nikon I have yet to have a go with. I nearly bought the P7000 but very slow image processing made it a none starter, but this is suppose to be fixed in P7100. Has a long range to 200mm 35mm equivalent.

Lumix get great review, very good EVF which unique in this collection displays shooting information. However although much smaller than my Nikon D90 it is quite a bit bigger than the other three when fitted with standard lens. There is a new lens available which is more compact, but increases price beyond £500. Another worry is I already have a large investment in Nikon DSLR kit, do I want to start another with 4/3 DSLR.

More photos of Scillies, from iPad

A couple more photos only this time the post has been done completely on iPad. Photos taken with Lumix TZ10, edited on iPad with Snapspeed and created on iPad Blogpress App.




There are less than 8 miles on the largest island St. Marys, so no need to hurry.




D be the Caribean but is in fact St Marys Scillies just 20 miles off Lands End in Mid September.

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Poppy meets Barn Owl

Poppy meets Barn Owl, originally uploaded by rodtuk.

Testing ability to send photo to blog from iPad app Photo Manager Pro
Rod

(Sent from my IPAD)

Photo Manager Pro

At last an iPad / iPhone app that easily enables you to create albums and import your photos into them.

It does create another copy of the photo so you can erase the original, but other apps such as FlickStackr will not see them if original deleted. However you can export them to standard Photos again from PMP if necessary.

Have just remembered that you can use email to upload to Flickr, and this works fine from PMP. You can add tags in email, control who can see photo, add title and captions but I could not find a way of directing photo to a specific set.  This is described in Flickr Help.




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BorderFX Aperture Plug-in

Neat free plugin I am using to build images for Flickr. It resizes and let's you put in copyright text. Also has watermark feature but not bothered with that. Give it a try.

BorderFX Aperture Plug-in

BorderFX Web Page




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Frost Dec 2010

Frost!

Just added this to see how link from Picasa to Blogger worked.

iPad Photo Apps TouchUp & Filter Storm

After watching iPad Today Podcast (TWIT TV) I bought the TouchUP photo app they had featured especially as it claimed to use masks. Cost £1.19 but you have to pay extra if you want some additional features.

It did have the ability to apply changes to parts of the photo, but it was nowhere near as good as my old favourite FilterStorm which does the same and more better.

The other photo app I use a lot is PhotoGene.


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