If you like the look of the Panasonic Lumix LX5 (and we certainly do) but feel that you’ve simply got too much cash in your bank balance, Leica have a solution.
To help reduce you of your cash burden, the company has announced a special edition of their D-Lux 5 digital compact camera: the extra pricey Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium.
Panasonic have just announced that a major firmware update for their Panasonic LX5 camera is now available for download.
The high-end Olympus XZ-1 digital compact camera has scooped the prestigious international Red Dot award, which honours outstanding design quality and trendsetters.
This is simple but very neat.
An unnamed author has put together a photo comparison of eleven of the best small, high end cameras – including the likes of the Panasonic GF1, GF2 and LX5, Canon S95, Leica X1 and Sigma DP2 – and added guidelines to help highlight the differences in size.
Image quality
For a compact camera, we were very impressed with the output of the LX5. Its new 10.1 MP sensor delivered distinictive improvements over its predecessor, with an enhanced dynamic range controlling burnt out highlights and more shadow detail being visible.
Part 2: Handling, controls and build
The build quality of the LX5 remains as robust and as high quality as its predecessor, with the updated model sporting an improved rubberised grip and exuding the kind of old school charm that should keep vintage snappers happy.
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We loved the Panasonic Lumix LX3 high-end compact camera so much that we made it our high end compact camera of the year in 2009, and when its successor, the LX5 was announced, we found ourselves being tempted again.
This time around the competition has heated up, with an array of equally seductive high end compacts providing tempting alternatives (in particular the Canon S95, which we nearly bought) – so can the LX5 still cut it as the best of the lot?
We moaned loud and long when we discovered that our new Panasonic Lumix LX5 compact camera wouldn’t take the ‘exploding’ Ricoh LC1 lens cap that we’d managed to botch on to our LX3 cameras.
With London seeing a large protest against the visit of the Pope yesterday, we thought we’d take our new Lumix LX5 along and grab a few shots.
We’ve been using – and loving the Panasonic LX3 for two years and were stoked when its successor, the Lumix LX5 was announced.
After declaring our love for its predecessor, the Lumix LX3, and spending the last few weeks carefully pawing over the spec sheets of both the LX5 and its nearest rival, the Canon Powershot S95, we’re mustard keen to get our hands on Panasonic’s latest compact camera offering.
Our recent article comparing the new Panasonic Lumix LX5 and Canon Powershot S95 high end cameras has resulted in us getting a fair bit of email, so we thought we’d post a follow up article answering some of the points raised.
It’s been our favourite digital compact camera for around two years now, and it’s good to see Panasonic still supporting this venerable high end snapper, even after its replacement, the Lumix LX5 has been announced.
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