A bit of camera advice needed....

[NDA]

I am an enthusiastic photographer with a Leica M8 and a bundle of lenses. I really enjoy using it and am generally delighted with a decent percentage of my shots. I'm keeping the Leica of course.

I'd now like to buy a semi serious DSLR, but a point and shoot.

There are sooo many choices that I've become totally confused.

My two front runners are the Sony Nex and the Pentax Q - to give you an idea of where I'm looking. A sort of slightly retro, nice to handle reasonably decent 'toy'.

Photos would be largely portrait and static car shots.... I don't want a big digital camera back, it's most definitely a little funky thing I'm after.

Would some kind soul give me some advice based on my rather odd criteria?

[RobDickinson]

What does it need to do the leica can't.

Sony nex is not an slr

[NDA]

Be point and shoot.

Be relatively small.

I'd like it be a bit funky or retro too.

[budfox]

Fuji X100

[RobDickinson]

Sony isn't Retro.

Look at Fuji and Olympus

[NDA]

Will do....

Any particular models?

[RobDickinson]

Olympus OM-D E-M5 or Fuji x100s or xe1 or x-pro1

Look at sony rx100s too

[NDA]

Ok I'm on it!

I will take a look at those. Many thanks.

[NDA]

The x100s looks perfect.... I'm just very slightly thinking about the price!

Would the x20 be a massively inferior camera?

I really like the look of them though.

[RobDickinson]

X20 has a large p&s sensor the x100s has a big apsc sensor thats better than your leica m8

[NDA]

My new X20 arrives tomorrow

Thanks for pointing me in that direction everyone.

The X100s was tempting, but I didn't need an M8 rival, just a decent 'toy' camera really. I think the X20 might fit the bill.

[RobDickinson]

There's no bad choices here! X20 looks like a great little toy

[NDA]

Only just spotted that there's an XM-1.

Hmmmm

Must

Resist

[RobDickinson]

X20 has a fixed zoom x100 has a fixed prime.

The other I think have mounts but cost more

[NDA]

As is often the case with a new camera, there's nothing to photograph!

However, I'm very pleased with it - once I convert to DNG the photos seem to smooth out a bit. Looking forward to taking a few shots at The Revival.

These two shots are straight out of the camera - but reduced in size for posting