Good second and Reisekamera

I am ambitious amateur photographer for several years and Scan else with a high quality Canon DSLR (5D Mark II) and the corresponding (usually L) lenses. For walking holidays and for longer sightseeing with the family (where a backpack filled with jackets, eating and drinking is needed) I was looking for a small camera with good image quality that can be present when the DSLR is too large and too heavy. After all, the best camera is the one you have here. And no one who has claims to an appealing image quality should delude ourselves that the smartphone permits. It is weitwinkelig to limited in low light or great contrasts and the images can be reworked only limited.

In my view there are suitable for this application currently the Sony RX100 III, the Fujifilm X100T and the Panasonic LX 100. Curiously, all have a 100 in the name. These compact cameras you can of course the quality of the lens and camera / sensor not separate.
- The Fujifilm X100T is certainly the highest quality and most expensive of the trio and generally has the best image quality. But with the fixed 35 mm focal length you have to get by then, unless you want to handle with lens attachments. But that contradicts the principle compact camera. For landscapes, 35 mm are to me often enough, with portraits they are demanding. Since one has to approach very close.
- The Sony RX100 III and the Panasonic LX 100 have both a standard zoom lens, as you would use it to the best DSLR for travel photography. You are in the picture quality in everyday life about equivalent, in some aspect of the Sony is better (eg the resolution), in some respects the Panasonic (eg the noise performance). The main difference is on the one hand the smaller size of Sony, which is thus most likely pockets compatible. On the other hand, the Panasonic because of the possibility of direct access to many parameters via dedicated controls, the more intuitive and faster to operate without the need to lose yourself in the menu. Ultimately, it is exactly what my opinion increases the fun of taking pictures.

Therefore, I have 100 gained me the Pansonic LX and had them now on a trip 2 weeks is strictly in use. With the results I am very satisfied, the camera has fulfilled the intended purpose. The picture quality is good, even in low light indoors, at dusk and at night. The "only" 12.8 megapixels are almost always sufficient, even if the images behind curtails something. A3 can easily create prints. It also succeed very quality 4K video and surprisingly smoothly good time-lapse photography. The free processing is clean and properly. The main point of criticism are:
- The inability to reassign some hot keys (eg the key for filters or the key for the fully automatic).
- That no longer accessible compartment for battery and memory card when using a tripod (there are now very good light and small tripods), because the quick-release plate inevitably covers the tray.
- The incompatibility of 10s - or 2 seconds - Self-Timer and Auto bracketing, the one can indeed cumbersome to deal remotely with a smartphone, the camera really should be something banal but can.
The rest is really good and fun. An important effect of such a camera is that they are actually almost always there and not miss a so many beautiful motives.

I think it's a bad habit that has established itself as the standard rating for all possible crap at Amazon apparently 5 points. I would give this camera 4 points, because I find them good. Perfect it is not natural. 5 points could then receive a product that the Canon 5D Mark III will shrink at a comparable price in the same Göße and the same weight ...