On paper, the Fujifilm XQ1 was my perfect pocket camera: The lens collapsed flat and the whole thing was the size of a deck of cards. It had a ginormous (for a pocket cam) 2/3" sensor. It had a 24-105mm equivalent zoom lens with a bright f/1.8-4.9 maximum aperture. It had those lovely Fuji colors and could shoot RAW with the full array of PASM modes.
It took great pictures!
Alas, the XQ1 has a known bug in that the aperture blades tend to get stuck wide open, and the camera's basically bricked when that happens, because it's long past the time when Fuji could repair it.
Get a Sony RX100 instead, the original one, used. Just as good a lens, same focal length range, bigger sensor.
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