Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 12th Mar 2007 02:12 UTC
Hi-Mobile.net sent us in a review unit of Panasonic's flagship point-n-shoot camera, the LX2. This camera kept the first place among other similar products in the past year with its two unique features: HD video recording and wide-angle for landscape shooting.
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2007-03-13
I have one of these cameras and while acknowledging that it is a flawed camera, it has some unique features and is great to use.
It is not the camera for a party shooter, low light movement needs high iso and if you care about the results, you don't go there. Having said that, the noise is no worse in magnitude than the much lauded Canon Powershot A620.
For the landscape shooter (myself), with the pocketable size and panoramic aspect ratio the camera is a gem. If you stick to iso100 or perhaps iso200 for colour shooting, the camera will give great quality images in both daylight and at night with a tripod. B&W shots taken at iso400 take on a very satisfying film grain look. The combination of the sharp lens and 10mp means that the resolution is very high for this type of camera, easily surpassing the A620 in my tests.
The big caveat is that the in-camera jpeg processing is completely lousy, so it is fortunate that there is a RAW option. RAW shots write in about 5s but take up about 22MB, so big cards are needed. When passed through the supplied SiklyPix raw processing app, the results are really excellent and the camera is capable of superb results.
So if you want a handy snapper, this definitely isn't the camera but if you are prepared to work around it's weaknesses it will deliver great images.