These are of course many wishes. I decided after reading many reports to me that the Sony HX5V, and the Canon S95 could most likely fulfill this wish list Samsung WB2000. I had now each of the cameras for about 2 weeks and could compare them with each other intensely. Other promising cameras like Panasonic LX-5, Samsung EX-1 or Olympus XZ-1 are to me either too big or too expensive (or both).
The Sony has a truly outstanding unerring "intelligent" automatic mode. You can really push any camera with this setting in the hand and the camera sets almost always the correct mode. If you want to, but you can also manually very much pretending. The colors of the photos are very natural and comfortable. The CMOS chip of the camera offers many interesting ways to let eg Lowlight zusammenrechnen an image from 6 in quick succession photos taken in order to minimize the noise very well can. In bad light makes them so useful without flash photos, despite not very powerful lens.
The 10x zoom was not on my wish list, but is still nice to have him. The handling is very intuitive. The video function of the camera is amazing and really comes close to a camcorder. 1080i video, quieter slower optical zoom, AF will be tracked etc.
In principle, that bothered me only one thing but more so: the image quality in bright light, so sunshine etc., is a camera in this price range unworthy. Although the colors are good, but the focus can even at the lowest ISO setting (the way only ISO 125) to be desired, because the camera has a very strong noise reduction, they themselves engaged already visible on the lowest level. For me this was unfortunately the knock-out criterion for this otherwise really nice camera.
The Samsung one must first get to know for a while, until you got along well with her. The service I find quite cumbersome and sometimes confusing. The intelligent automatic is not nearly as good as the Sony. For this you can, if you do in manual mode (the everything has imaginable), making the correct settings, much better photos in good light as the Sony. The sharpness at low ISO (here lowest level ISO80) is top, very detailed photos are possible. Unfortunately, the Samsung is weakening but in low light, despite the higher initial luminous intensity than the Sony. The noise reduction at high ISO is here too weak, what indeed can details be desired, but produces too much color noise. Since the camera offers RAW, you can in the post although definitely still improve, but that's too expensive as a rule, I want good JPEG photos directly from the camera.
Moreover, I find the colors in the Samsung fundamentally unnatural. Although you can see the color will also specifically set as desired, but I have, despite a lot of effort to find any setting that has convinced me 100%. These were for me here the KO criteria: noise and color reproduction. Otherwise, the camera offers a lot of nice options (such as video and photo at the same time!), And here the video mode is very good (almost as good as the Sony).
The Canon finally liked from the first power up. The first photos in good light had just the detail sharpness of Samsung and the natural colors of the Sony. And in bad light it can of course be longer than the other cameras working with low ISOs, as it has the fastest lens. At high ISOs she finds a good balance between noise reduction and "Details wegbügeln". But above all, the special low-light mode where 4 pixels are combined to form a high-intensity, has absolutely convinced me. She has indeed only 2.5 megapixels, but that is the price (and not too high, considering that even Full HD less than that has).
The intelligent automatic is very good but not as good as the Sony. I use here, therefore, the "P" position as automatic and therefore it can work wonderfully. Manual can be here also everything pretend that the heart desires. In addition, the camera offers some interesting programs: for example, one can adjust that with a photo only a particular color is reproduced original and the rest of the photo is black and white. Even the HDR mode convinced me.
The most important thing is: she just in high and low light conditions, the best picture quality. But I forgive her the video mode, which is not very convincing. That it has "only" 720p, does not bother me so much, but the lack of possibility to optically zoom and move the focus to is pretty weak at such an expensive Cam. Operation is intuitive, only the Sony was there perhaps just a tad bit easier. Unfortunately, the camera is quite expensive. Da me but could not convince the other cameras at important for me point the picture quality, I have kept the Canon and regret this is not so far. It fulfills for me the most important criteria of all current cameras best and is probably currently the first choice if you are looking for a truly compact camera with excellent picture quality in good and in bad light.
