The RAWsumers of 2007 (work in progress)

We are still in 2007, so this is obviously a work in progress! So far we have had five RAWsumers announced in 2007. Here they are:

Meet the Olympus SP-550 Ultra Zoom

7mp 1/2.5" sensor, 18x lens, sensor shift stabilization, AA

Official announcement at dpreview (with specs)

dpreview review


Meet the Panasonic FZ8

7mp 1/2.5" sensor, 12x MegaOIS lens (optical stabilization), LiIon

Official announcement at dpreview

dpreview review


Meet the Fuji IS-1 (infrared version of Finepix S9100)

9mp 1/1.6" SuperCCD sensor, 10.8x lens starting at 28mm, no stabilization, AA

Official announcement at dpreview


Meet the Ricoh GX100

10mp 1/1.75" sensor, unique 24mm-74mm lens, sensor shift stabilization, LiIon (but can also take AAA (yes triple-A))

Official announcement at dpreview

Meet the GX100

Is the GX100 the RAWsumer Messiah?

dpreview review

more coming up


Meet the Panasonic FZ18

8mp 1/2.5" sensor, 18x MegaOIS superzoom starting at 28mm, optical stabilization, LiIon

Official announcement coverage here at RAWsumer. Also at dpreview

More coverage at 1001 noisy, along with the leak



RAW Disappointments! - We would have liked to see these cameras feature RAW, but they did not :-(

Fuji F50fd and F8000fd

more coming up