junyo

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/12/assumptions-expectations-and-plastic-mounts 65% gimmick, 35% must have. I've dropped an XP1 in the snow: ...been caught in summer storms, misted with salt spray, and a dollop of strawberry ice cream right on the shutter speed turret. Never stopped ticking until it was stolen. Weather sealing is a nice to have, and it's better than nothing, but you can't let it give you a false sense of bravado. And a quality camera will survive a lot more than most people think. The extra survivability that weather sealing gives is already when you're in the 'warranty voided/this image is might cost the camera' zone.

I just bought one for Panasonic, so it's not apples to apples. But comparing it to the EF-20, it's a little bigger/heavier, the diffuser isn't integral (they include a Stofen knock-off) one more thing to carry/lose but better softening if you're into that sort of thing, has direct manual controls, swivels+tilts (that's not readily apparent from the pictures) and a strobe function. Mine's getting exchanged because it won't read more than 2/3rds charge even with fresh batteries, and it killed those after less than 50 frames, so QA might be an issue.

No phase detect pixels in the XPro1 sensor so, no.