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Anonymous
Twelve seconds between raw files. One wide focal length, which is perfect if you like it, but 28mm equivalent is damn wide for most things.
I'm assuming you're buying this for street work and as a quiet camera to use for your photojournalism when an SLR would stick out like a sore thumb?
My suggestion would be a bridge camera of some sort. I know /p/ haets them, but my Panasonic DMC-FZ8 works perfectly for street work and as a discreet camera. It handles great with the included 52mm filter adapter attached, and it's got this nifty "zoom resume" feature that lets it boot up the lens to the last focal length (I always set it to 7mm, which is the same as a 28mm on a DX sensor), and I'm pretty sure it boots up to the hyperfocal distance of the lens, too. Close enough if not that it can be used like that. The lens itself is great, especially as a portrait lens if you jog it to medium telephoto. The EVF is genuinely sharp and bright, and manually focusing it (which is necessary because of slow autofocus) is fast and accurate. There's a little DoF chart that pops up in the EVF when you do this, showing not just where it's focused (like Canon cameras do) but the actual DOF.
The downside of it is the small and hence noisy sensor, and how it lacks a hotshoe. Alternatives with larger sensors and hotshoes are the Canon G-Series and the Panasonic DMC-LC1, which has a large (for a bridge camera) 2/3rds sensor and a 28-90mm equivalent f/2-f/2.4 Leica-designed lens, with controls just like old film cameras (mechanical zoom and focus, aperture ring, shutter speed dial). There's a crapload of reviews of it over on the Luminous Landscape. I also understand Fuji makes some great bridge cameras, but I don't know anything about them.
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