Frankly im at a loss too. I have discussed this with my photography teacher, why the heck isnt there a fixed fast lens camera with a decent sized chip. I have played with the canon G9 a lot and gave serious consideration to it and the GRD but neither seemed to float my boat. The GRD as neat as it is just isnt a GR1v and the canon, as neat as it is, doesnt fit well in my hand and that big protruding lens (with no wide angle ability I might add) screams "I WONT FIT IN YOUR WALK AROUND BAG!" not to mention the pitifully slow lens. So what has the left me to? Wishing there was a classic format digital camera. Simple fixed lens, f1.8 or more, 50mm or so, manual focus (very simple to design it would seem compared to a computer in a camera) and a good viewfinder. How hard could it be?
Then again my photography teacher just said: "you have 10 cameras in your dry box, what the hell are you bitching about?"
but I still want that pocket point and shoot....ricoh, go buy some canon 20d sensors and jam them into your grd2!
what I secretly want though is a voigtlander point and shoot, the 35mm PII stuck to a tiny little body the size of a pana lx1 and a veiwfinder with rangefinder ala Olympus XA and the sensor from the canon 20D.
