Unfortunately, it appears that the fears I expressed earlier were
justified. A real shame, as it's otherwise such an impressive camera
with a great lens.
Moose wrote:
> Rob Harrison wrote:
>> Now, about the *compact* digital...;-) Seems like there are plenty of
>> those
>> out there to tide me over 'till Oly comes up with the E-3, or I can
>> afford a
>> 5D. Thinking of them as "film with a lens attached" I've narrowed it
>> down
>> to...
>>
>> - L*ica D-Lux 3 or P*nas*nic LX-2
>>
> From the review of the LX-1:
> "If you feel a 'but' coming on, here it is. To release a camera so
> obviously aimed at the serious photographer, to add so many usable
> manual controls, to put a razor-sharp Leica lens on the front and then
> to drop in a chip / processor that is so noisy you can't use it above
> ISO 100 is quite simply unforgivable. It's like buying a Ferrari and
> discovering it maxes out at 55 mph."
>
> <big snip>
> Obviously, we don't know how the newer camera will perform, although
> evidence in at least the form of the recently released FZ50 and,
> FX-01, is that Panasonic has been pursuing the mp race at the expense
> of image quality. So UNLESS they change their ways with the LX-2, you
> have a camera that is incapable of quality high iso results AND
> requires you to be "prepared to do some work - specifically shooting
> in raw mode and tweaking the parameters in Adobe Camera Raw" to get
> great iso 100 images.
dpreview Conclusions page for the LX-2:
"Reviewing the LX2 - the successor to one of the only memorable compact
cameras of 2005 - has been a slightly disappointing, yet totally
unsurprising experience. Like the FZ50 reviewed last month, the LX2 is
an 'upgrade' that fails to address in any convincing way the single
glaring problem with its predecessor. Rather than going back to
fundamentals and working on the weakest link in what is otherwise a very
desirable camera - noise - Panasonic decided, presumably because the
'market' demands it, to add even more pixels and use the sledgehammer
noise reduction of the Venus III processing engine. To be fair to
Panasonic the output is an improvement over the LX1, though only by a
narrow margins, and at anything over ISO 200 it's 'different' rather
than 'better' (again, to be fair, it does produce better prints)."
Moose
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