I have had this camera about 6 weeks now and had the opportunity to test it out properly in Paris recently. First my reasons for buying it . 1) The image quality – Using the same foveon sensor as the Sigma SD14, the quality of this camera’s images is supposed to be fantastic. 2) Its compact size – easy to carry around and doesn’t draw the attention of a big SLR camera. Ideal for street photography 3) The wide angle lens. – at around 28mm (crop factor taken into account) it makes an ideal landscape/architecture lens. The quality of this lens is also supposed to be first class.

I had read a number of reports citing the sluggishness of this camera but for the type of shots I take, this really isn’t an issue. True, this camera is not built for sports photography, the batteries are quick to drain and the lens only has a minimum aperture of F4 but all that said, it does allow you to get shots that a SLR would not whilst maintaining the quality of an SLR. Using the camera set in full manual allows the best possible results