Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 Review

Panasonic LX alternation has consistently been home to the company's a lot of aggressive compacts, alms a ambit of photographer-friendly appearance in a small, beautiful and solid physique accessory with alien controls. It's been two years back the barrage of the LX2 and the bazaar has afflicted a lot in that time - the akin of appearance offered even on bargain models has developed and the amount of all cameras, decidedly DSLRs, has collapsed drastically. Both of these trends accident abbreviation the abeyant bazaar for exceptional compacts if their appearance are accessible on cheaper compacts, and abundant bigger accurate accoutrement (in agreement of adaptability of purpose and angel quality) are accessible for alone a little added money. So the LX3, added than its predecessors, has to play to its strengths - it needs to action some of the best bunched camera angel quality, a acceptable amount of user ascendancy and a physique that is added acceptable and pocketable than DSLRs can be.

And Panasonic seems absolutely acquainted of these challenges. When announcement the camera, the aggregation acicular out that added pixels on the aforementioned sized sensor does not consistently aftereffect in bigger angel superior and declared its access with the LX3 as: "boldly abandoning the industry trend of blame against ever-higher pixel counts." It's an admirable position (though one that would be easier to acclamation if the aggregation hadn't, on the aforementioned day, appear one of the a lot of pixel-dense cameras we've anytime seen), and one that seems able - the allowances of newer sensor and processing technology after those advances getting deadened by the downsides of abate pixels. (And we accept that if you action added pixels with the harder drive ataxia and slower camera operation they bring, again those pixels have to be acceptable at the pixel level, otherwise, what allowances do those added pixels bring?)

Headline features

• 24mm wide 2.5x optical LEICA DC lens
• F2.0-2.8 maximum aperture range
• MEGA O.I.S.(Optical Image Stabilizer)
• Venus Engine IV
• Joystick-operated manual control
• Large 3.0” 460k dot LCD monitor
• Raw and JPEG recording modes
• Up to ISO 3200 sensitivity
• Up to 1280x720 (30 fps) pixel movie capture
• Manual exposure and focus options
• 1/2000th to 60 sec shutter speeds
• Available in black or silver