which fixed lens compact for you...and why?

Digital: Panasonic LX100, the the most "analog" digital there is, and offers everithing you could ever wish for.
Analog: Olympus Trip?

Frank
 
For me the small Rollie 35. All pics sharp, and the light meter is accurate. Wore out the ratchet gear since my purchase in '69; and a new one installed and still going strong.
 
Film for me usually means my Leica-M3, Collapsible Summicron.
Flat, compact and perfect for my needs.
Occasionally the Rollei 35T.
Digital, my Canon SuperShot 1200.
Ultra compact, uses AA cells, hangs from my neck on long cord,
in a soft case, that can accommodate extra AA cells.
Cameras like the "Q" seem beautiful, but i really like the zoom on my digital!
28,35 and 50 don't cut it.
I think it embodies what many well heeled would like.
I am simply now, at these prices or even Fuji, Sony locked out.
That amount buys trips, much film and more needed necessities.
 
I love my Fuji X100. But I also have the XE1 and XA1.
If the X100 died today, I probably would not replace it.
If I had none of these cameras, I pick up the Panasonic LX-100 and live with that for a while.
 
I'll play but it hasn't really changed. The the thing I love about HQ compacts is that they are generally a lot less money than they were when new if film based, and if digital, a year or two sees steep depreciation. Hence i have a few.

Favs are

Film : B+W = Ricoh GR1s with yellow filter.
Colour slide or print = Miinolta TC1 - retro jewel with a g lens
Nikon 35Ti if I'm feeling funky

Digital :Original GR /21mm adaptor ir 28mm for film like High ISO grain
Current GR cos it it awesome APSC in that size and erogs is pretty neat.


Should use all of em more.
 
Olympus XA2, in red. Because it belonged to my dear departed mother, it does a nice job, it's small, and nobody takes it seriously.

...Mike
 
Fixed lens compact in the digital world? I'd still prefer a fixed focal length for that, so maybe Leica X1/X2 if they weren't so freaking expensive.. Otherwise I'd be hard pressed to think of a non-zoomer digital with similar quality and size (and that you could also find in a brick and mortar shop over here)..
 
XA. I now have one for FP4 and one for HP5 rated 800, in either pocket. Also it's amazing how small a folder can be and you get lovely large negs.

For digital if money were no object I'd like an RX1R. I like very small cameras. However there are interchangeable lens compact digitals that are no larger than some fixed lens.
edit: the camera I'm most curious to try is the DP2M/DP3M
 
The Sigma DP2 Merrill & the Sony RX100M3. The Sigma makes big beautiful files that look good to me. The price is right, might be the best B&W camera and it's simple. It's far from perfect but it's makes you slow down and think.
The Sony is like my Swiss army knife camera. Not perfect but the IQ is great, good ISO performance and it's very small. Both cameras fit in a small bag.
 
either GR or X100 for me, if I could keep only one then the GR, very small, 16MP and very versatile, from 21mm to 35mm (12MP crop), I don't bother with 50mm since it's a 5MP crop.

the X100 is pretty small, still larger than GR but a lot of fun to shoot with
 
For me its the Fuji X10 since a few years. Very compact and a useful fast manual zoomlens.
Nowadays I would buy a Fuji X30 because of its tilting display and electronic viewfinder.
 

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I've been through great steaming piles of them and enjoyed every one but none enough to make a commitment to. Canon G10, Fuji X100, Fuji XF1, all three Sigma Merrills and finally, the one I took home to meet Mom, the RX1.
I love the quality, the ease of using in manual exposure mode, the close focus and I don't at all miss the EVF. My knees are shot and I do a lot of close focus work of objects on the ground. I can bend over just fine. I just can't get up once I get down.
The RX1 is the keeper.
 
Fixed lens?all depends on the bag I grab. I do always carry a spare. An XA, my Canon QL17, maybe the Minolta REPO, or a little Olympus-Pen EE S . Why? cause I use older cameras, like a light backup that's reliable. Most times after getting the shots I want, out will come the small, fixed lens. Most ,as I said, are prepacked with film. It works for me to just snag a bag on the way out the door as I then have a chance to use my favourites. There all a lot of fun to use. Most are tough as nails.
 
I tend to rotate options as well, keeping something loaded with film to grab on my way out the door. Right now it's my XA4 that's been seeing a lot of use, but I'm sure I'll go back to my standby Rollei 35 and Pen D3, or occasionally mix it up with something obscure like my Yashica J-Mini or Voigtländer Vito. Whatever it is, it has to be small and easily carried.
 
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