Panasonic G1 might appeal to s5 users...

[c2thew]

Everything you could want in a mini dslr: articulating LCD, lightweight = portable, pretty decent sharp photos (if you pixel peep though, you can see where the IQ falls short), external hotshoe, mini hdmi (woot woot :lol:), there's a sensor below the eyepiece that turns off your lcd when shooting through the EVF, 3fps

why you wouldn't want to jump on the g1....

it's the first generation. no movie mode, limited lens selection, iso usable range is to 1600, better than the iso 400 that the sx10 and sx1, but definitely aimed at entry level dslrs.

so compared to the sx10, you definitely get a faster fps however compared to the sx1, the g1 loses to the sx1's well-rounded ness. sure the g1 has slightly sharper and contrasty images, but it sure as heck doesn't have HD video recording, 20x tele and wide angle capability, nor canon's quality customer service.

if the next generation G series has more additional lenses and features, it might be more desirable to pull the sx users over due to one sole reason: Image quality. that's my take.

[mattia]

Sorry, but...eh? No Live View? Why d'ya think there's an articulate screen on there at all?

In terms of image quality I'm thinking it's head to head with entry level DSLRs, and therefore head and shoulders above pretty much any of the point and shoot cams, if only because of the larger sensor size. It's also - according to the reviews - got the best EVF of pretty much any cam at this moment in time.

Re: video, it's nice, but not a deal breaker. I've got a 5DII, and I doubt I'll be doing all that much with the HD Video.

What I'm really looking forward to is something like the Olympus proposed micro4:3 cam - rangefinger sized, ie pocketable, big sensor, pretty decent low light performance, and interchangeable glass. The G1 is groundbreaking in a lot of ways, but in others its still farily traditional.

[c2thew]

oops my bad on the live view post. i was thinking about video and typed live view. i'll fix that.

pocketable dslrs... let's see if the trend takes off. I know canon and nikon won't enter this market as it would encroach on their ef and ef-s lens line. But the threat of smaller and similar image quality is enough to raise awareness of a potential market threat.