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

For film, Olympus Trip 35. Small enough, simple enough and sharp enough. For digital, Sigma DP1. The Foveon sensor gives me some quality that's hard to put into words, but I like what I see when I use it (as much as I hate using Sigma Photo Pro).
 
Any digital compact - they all give more than sufficient image quality (which isn't great but OK for snaps and "sketches", excepting the most expensive cameras). I use a full-frame 36 MP dSLR or medium-format film for serious photography.

As for a film compact: none. I've stopped using 35mm film as its resolution is thrashed by my dSLR even though I scan with a Hasselblad Flextight!
 
iPhone and the LC1 (clone of Digilux 2)

The iphone is always with me in my pocket, so this a major plus point for it. It has LiveView just like a Leica M 240 :) It allows very flexible compositions that are difficult to get with a larger sized camera. It has built-in wifi for image transferring. It has the possibility for apps to enhance the experience. It allows me to use it also as a phone. Not even the M240 can manage this task. It has a great panorama mode that works very well. It has a option for taking videos.

The LC1 has an amazing lens, and the exposures seem to come perfect almost each time.
 
Film: Rollei 35s or if I want to be able to go from pocket to shot fast Olympus XA2.

Digital: Coolpix A for stunning image quality, better than my D700 and it fits in my shirt pocket. Nikon is practically giving refurbs away at this point.

Shawn
 
Currently a Coolpix A, after a couple of RX100s and a Fuji XF.

A compact for me has to take decent pictures and fit into my jeans pocket. And not be silly expensive which the Coolpix no longer is. I wish it had a 35mm equivalent lens instead of 28 though...
 
shawn said:
Film: Rollei 35s or if I want to be able to go from pocket to shot fast Olympus XA2.

Digital: Coolpix A for stunning image quality, better than my D700 and it fits in my shirt pocket. Nikon is practically giving refurbs away at this point.

Shawn
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Is Coolpix A a good model to consider out of the list of Coolpix models?
 
Are we talking fixed-focal length or just fixed-lens which could be a zoom? The latter opens lots of possibilities. The former, I wasn't really excited about even in the film days, although I still have a Rollei 35S and a couple Rolleiflexes. No desire to own a fixed-focal length digital. Especially one with a wide-angle lens, because it requires significant cropping to get a narrower FOV. To me that introduces more quality loss than a modern zoom, let alone fixed rangefinder lenses. I can take my M with a 28 or 35, and have a 50 and/or 90 in my pocket for hardly much more weight.
 
Coolpix A is the only one with a fixed 28mm (fov) lens, aps-c sensor. 16 megapixels with no aa filter, great DR and nice controls. Has the full nikon picture control for custom jpeg settings and shoots raw too. Good battery life as well and is solidly built. Nikon is selling refurbs at $300 right now. I have shot it more in the last year than any of my other cameras as it is small enough to always be with me. I just started using multiples of them for panoramas.

Shawn
 
I guess Shawn meant the Coolpix A is the only Coolpix one with a fixed 28mm (fov) lens - the Coolpix part is the only thing that is missing compared to the Nikon.

rhl-oregon said:
GR pretty much goes everywhere with me.
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I just ordered an used GR and I plan to take it pretty much everywhere with me.
 
The x100 series for me. I've upgraded to each new version at pretty reasonable cost since the old ones sell pretty well on eBay

For my money there is not a better camera to have in your jacket than the x100T. The new OVF is just fantastic. Once you've used the hybrid VF, there is no going back (I use the OVF for street work, especially if I want a color shot; I leave the EVF in BW mode and it's just a kick to actually SEE your shot in BW as you take it :)

Oh yes, did I mention it's ¼ the price of a Leica Q (which I lust for even though I think I would still like the x100T better :)

Tom
 
shawn said:
Coolpix A is the only one with a fixed 28mm (fov) lens, aps-c sensor. 16 megapixels with no aa filter, great DR and nice controls. Has the full nikon picture control for custom jpeg settings and shoots raw too. Good battery life as well and is solidly built. Nikon is selling refurbs at $300 right now. I have shot it more in the last year than any of my other cameras as it is small enough to always be with me. I just started using multiples of them for panoramas.

Shawn
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Thank you Shawn. Sounds good to me. The GR sounds also good, but it will be a larger sized camera.
 
Raid, have a look at Ming Thein's A/B review of the GR/Coolpix A. They are comparable in most ways, including size and IQ.

The Coolpix A is more deeply discounted these days, perhaps because it didn't outsell the GR at the outset (where the Coolpix was significantly more expensive), or convert more Nikonians to the fixed 28 approach.
 
Yashica Electro 35MC, because of Av and human-ready interface to 40mm lens.

Digital...only my phone deserves to be called FL compact. Others are computers with lens attached.
 
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