The shop assistant suggested a canon 1000 slr with a 50mm lens as an alternative to the GF1.
It doesnt have the video, its not as stylish but they said it would take a better pic and is £300 cheaper, does the collective agree?
well, it's hardly a reasonable comparison, is it?. One's a DSLR, and the other's a compact with removable lenses. As to the Canon taking a ‘better pic’, well, that's a moot point. Certainly I expect technically most people would have difficulty telling the results apart if all settings were the same on a test subject; after all, the sensor is the same size, whereas an actual compact has a much smaller sensor. Yes, there's a £300 difference, but the point is the GF1
isn't a DSLR, and that in itself is enough to sell the camera. If I went into a shop looking to buy a camera like a GF1, and the guy tried to sell me a DSLR on those grounds I'd politely ask him to prove his statement, reminding him that what I'm actually looking for is an
alternative to a DSLR.
[edit] As an owner of a DSLR and a compact, (D60/Lumix TZ3), I could really use some thing like a GF1 or the Sony. I regularly take lots of photos in circumstances where I could do with the larger sensor size, but a DSLR is a real liability, to the extent that I have been specifically told to stop taking photos, whereas a compact wouldn't attract attention. I'm talking concert photography, where security apes get snotty about cameras that look professional.[/edit]