According to test reports should give much more the image quality of the X10. But here you have to strongly differentiate between the light conditions.
In daylight conditions: The Olympus stands at ISO100-200 a razor-sharp, very finely drawn image, which is in the details, colors and sharpness better than the Fuji X10. The Fuji can score in terms contrasting dynamics - eg bright clouds fields are represented differentiated. Here you have the Olympus switch to RAW mode to obtain or to overtake in RAW this richness of contrast, the Fuji supplies already by JPEG.
Under artificial light conditions: Here is weakening the white balance of the Olympus and makes artificial light usually strong yellows and Rotstiche, the photos are consistently too hot and need to be reworked; Alternatively, the exposure via RAW is again necessary. The Fuji goes the opposite way and offset the yellowish artificial light of an incandescent lamp so good and neutral that one might think, if it were a recording in daylight.
In low light situations: Although the Fuji X10 does not come up to the possibilities of good or SLR Olympus OM-D E-M5, makes them very good shots to ISO800 for even-compact camera with a smaller sensor. Indoors at night are no problem at all. No chance for the Olympus, in which - in contrast to Fuji - Do not allow to set the parameters for noise reduction and begins violently watercolors. Along with the color cast with artificial light recordings are creepy in darkened rooms at the Olympus. Quite different it behaves when it is on a tripod and the ISO value back to 100. With the appropriate exposure time, the Olympus delivers excellent night photography. As the night shots from the tripod of the Fuji X10 can not follow suit. The pictures seem coarser and not so well marked as in the Olympus.
Why do I compare these two cameras is that can make here strengths and weaknesses clearly. The Olympus XZ-1 offers under ideal conditions for them an incredibly good picture quality. Since the Fuji can not get off. The direct comparison with the best belonging pictures at ISO100 a compact camera with zoom lens (!), Which are supplied by the Olympus XZ-1, shows that the Fuji X10 would still be better. But the overall performance incl. Handling and settings makes the Fuji X10 again for better quality camera.
That the objective part of the viewfinder of the X10 covers (which really unacceptable is the attachment of optional lens hood) and the viewfinder no information includes (for example as in the 50s / 60s Sucherkameras parallax) is one of the design shortcomings of the Fuji X10. Too bad also that they are not your battery when USB port on your computer - such as the Olympus XZ-1 - automatically loads. Too bad that the cover of the camera connections as a mickeriges plastic Kläppchen two rubber nipples is what not qualitatively equivalent to the rest of the standard. But apart from the Fujifilm is an extremely solid and well thought-out camera with excellent image quality. Genial is the manual zoom, which quickly turns on the camera and to use like an SLR camera much more accurate and faster to use than a conventional compact camera-power zoom. Haptic an example of how in the 50's / 60's cameras have looked like - simply because it was convenient and the whole wheel and knobs had proven - if you really want to take pictures, not just press the a button.
