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- Agree with your JPEG comments, but find your title ("yesterday's camera?") misleading.
If you ARE shooting raw, want decent controls and you don't want an ILC, this camera is without comparison (in fact, I prefer it to the GF-1 & NEX ILCs). A great traveling companion when you want gallery quality prints and travel light at the same time - nothing "yesterday" about it.
If all you want are JPEGs, you can get comparable quality for 1/2 the price. But then, you wouldn't be looking at an LX5 anyway...In reply to: "Yesterday's camera?"
February 1, 2011
- been looking at this for some time...
In reply to: "Crave giveaway of the week: Logitech Squeezebox Boom"
July 18, 2009
- "I think you missed my point..."
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Forget comparisons to other brands, DSLRs, etc. There are many variables affecting image quality (beyond megapixels), so let's hold most of them constant and consider the evolution of the LX1 into the LX2. The LX1 had a very interesting design, very useful features and an extraordinary optical system, but tried to squeeze too many pixels into too small of a detector (you also make this point). The next logical step, given the above, would be to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, the only major flaw in the LX1.<br><br>What did Panasonic do? Make more megapixels, sending even fewer photons to each pixel, which of course made the SNR worse. Oh, yes, they INCREASED the ISO rating at the same time! You're response indicates you have the sophistication to understand the insanity of this.<br><br>Not only was I disappointed with the performance of the LX2 relative to it's predecessor, I was even more disappointed with Panasonic's deception of implying the LX2 had improved high ISO performance (it does not). Likely, their marketing department designed this camera by insisting on more megapixels, because that's what many under-informed buyers are lead to believe is the only measure of image quality. A high score would have signed an approval of this business model, and kept Panasonic's excellent engineers subservientIn reply to: "LX2 no improvement over LX1 for noise"
June 6, 2007
