'best' pocket camera?

[sevres_babylone]

The 3 cameras I use most are my M9, my GR and my E-M5; obviously the GR is the only pocketable one. But in any case, if I had to choose one, I would choose the GR.

 

[RichL]

Minox BL Mec 16sb Pentax Auto 110 All have light meters and good optics. film available for all of them.

 

[Ariefb]

Pana GM5 and 20mm1.7 is ridiculously small and fun.

 

[philcycles]

M3 with an elmar

 

[philcycles]

or a CL with a 40mm Summicron

 

[paapoopa]

it has to be the contax t3 for me, this camera is so pocketable. not to mention the excellent optics

 

[Oscuro]

One handed if bright out.... with hand manipulation somewhat similar to Spock's death hold..

Please. Not to be upsetting of truth: it was NOT a death hold.

 

[Oscuro]

GX1/7 with 14/2.5 or Olympus 14-42...
X100/S/T

Best is Iphone or Android.

But must you shooting black and white? Because you must think about colour and not in post. Post is bull$hitingness. Sony does weird colour jpg. Admit. So does some Panasonik (GF1 good GX1 not so much good colour). If you make colour picture jpg should be good. Canon.
But I would say you probably already have this camera that you can take always, no?

Abstain from buying. Go looking for picture. Let your heart be filled with picture - bad or lovely.

Go.

 

[giellaleafapmu]

For me it is Pentax Q with 01 lens for digital. I only wish they would produce a pancake lens in any focal length and aperture somehow faster than the f9.0 of the shield lens (which is fun anyway). I love that the controls are just like in any DSLR. I pair it with a Rollei 35 and use the Q as a light meter... The best design I think would be that of Jaeger-LeCoultre Compass camera from 1938 but the very few times this thing comes out at auction is so expensive that if I had one I would never really bring with me anywhere. It would still be a good companion to a Reverso tough...

GLF