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Overall the camera takes decent pictures, when it's working. The 35mm equivalent lens is makes it good for taking daily pictures. But it also mean that this is not the lens for taking super wide landscape or indoor architecture photos. The start up time of this camera is really slow, sometime it starts in about 2s sometime it takes more than 5s to start. Also, the focusing speed of this camera is pretty slow, so abandon your plan to take pictures with moving objects. However this camera does take some pretty good pictures when there is enough light. color and dynamic range is amazing. I don't know whether it is a problem with the lens system or the spotty auto focus. When you zoom in to 100% on your computer, the edge always seems a little bit fuzzy, even with small aperture. The shutter speed dial and the aperture dial feels solid during operation but it still lack the tactile feeling of a manual film camera. Manual focus on this camera is horrible. It takes about 10 turns to move from the closest to infinity. And the lag between turning and actually focusing makes the experience very frustrating. Don't count on shooting video with this camera. It doesn't produce the same quality as the photos and auto focus keeps kicking in every 5s to give your video a 0.1s of blurriness, unless you switch to manual focus.

This camera try to mimic range finder camera but the resemblance is only skin deep, it lacks the tactile feedback on the control. It still feels like shooting a digital camera, even my config completely turned off any electronic assistance like Hybrid EVF or back LCD. People who expect this as a replacement for his manual film camera will be disappointed in the control and responsiveness. But the image quality is definitely up to my expectation.