{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blogposting-js","path":"/blog/serious_compact_three_formfactors","result":{"data":{"mdx":{"body":"function _extends() { _extends = Object.assign || function (target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = arguments[i]; for (var key in source) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) { target[key] = source[key]; } } } return target; }; return _extends.apply(this, arguments); }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutProperties(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded); var key, i; if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var sourceSymbolKeys = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(source); for (i = 0; i < sourceSymbolKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceSymbolKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; if (!Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable.call(source, key)) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } } return target; }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = {}; var sourceKeys = Object.keys(source); var key, i; for (i = 0; i < sourceKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } return target; }\n\n/* @jsxRuntime classic */\n\n/* @jsx mdx */\nvar _frontmatter = {\n  \"date\": \"2009-04-15T19:29:31.776Z\",\n  \"updated\": \"2009-04-15T19:29:31.776Z\",\n  \"type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"title\": \"A few thoughts on Serious Compacts and where the market is going\",\n  \"entityId\": \"02651160-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionId\": \"02651161-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionNum\": 1,\n  \"tags\": {\n    \"plain\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"thoughts\",\n      \"objClass\": \"tag\"\n    }]\n  },\n  \"sidebar\": \"I'm not kidding about the agonizing for long periods of time part. You should see how nasty my sneakers look right now.\",\n  \"description\": \"I'm wondering what's going to really turn out to work in the market.  Right now, the Serious Compact market is mostly tiny sensors cameras like the G7/G9/G10 or the LX3. 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We\\u2019re starting to see them hit the market, and assuming that camera-makers don\\u2019t give up on trying to sell people who might be scared of making their next mortgage payment in the present economy new toys, we\\u2019re starting to see variants on the model. Thus, I was thinking\\u2026 if there\\u2019s a few cameras like the Sigma DP1/DP2, a few cameras like the G-series, and a few compact-interchangeable-lens cameras like the Samsung NX and Panasonic G1 on the market, which one would I pick?\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I kind of like having the zoom lens for my compact camera. I don\\u2019t think that my serious compact needs to be a do-all camera, but I do find myself getting a lot of use out of it. Thus, there is some resistance in my head to getting a prime-lens-only compact, unless I was building a collection of digital cameras\\u2026 which I\\u2019m trying to avoid.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"On the other hand, if I got something Olympus G1-ish that was more compact, plus a pancake lens, I could play the jacket-coat-shuffle with the camera in one pocket with the pancake, plus a more capable zoom lens in the other.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Or, I could just accept that I\\u2019m OK with not taking the most excellent high-res picture (My favorite camera is still a RB67, after all) and just stick with whatever successor to the G7 is on the market when the G7 breaks.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"So, I\\u2019m agonizing over the details. I\\u2019m not actually looking to buy, but since buying anything other than groceries requires a substantial amount of agonizing before I actually buy it, I might as well get some of that over sooner rather than later. 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