All are my subjective impressions when the same I used a lot of different cameras of all brands in my life. I guess Panasonic, as Niko, such as Canon, Sony, Fuji such as Ricoh of these brands I have at least three generations of mostly already from analog (who knows even the Fuji ST901) used to digitally.
I will confine myself to positive = + = o OK-neutral and negative = - personal impressions
+ I like the setting over time wheel and aperture ring.
+ Viewfinder with high resolution
+ Quieter shutter 1/16000 (electronically) (1/4000 mechanically)
+ Optical quality of the lens (but massive flares in backlight) but low distortion, very sharp and very bright
+ The haptic impression of the whole camera is a poem similar to Pen EP 5
+ Faster AF and very accurately esp. At close range
+ Very nice Bokhe
+ No fringing visible (AC) (better than pen and RX 100)
+ Multiformat option while maintaining the perspective
+ 4k video (although untested)
+ Great jpeg engine you have to edit is not much in the pictures. Better than at Olympus and Sony similarly good as Fuji
+ Excellent red rendering (with many cameras that's a weakness)
+ Very good white balance (produced rather slightly cooler colors)
o / + otherwise very neutral colors
o Program AE tries to avoid high ISO speeds, thus low-noise images (-800 to 400 ISO)
o image quality is not better than RX100 or Pen with 14-42mm kit zoom (optical impression on calibrated 4K screen)
- Way too expensive! Reasonable price mE 598 max 649 (currently at 798 Street already)
- Very low zoom range
- Viewfinder too small (no comparison with the Olympus VF-4) (as had -Bifokal -Brillenträger with the LX 100 a few problems, but I am by the Olympus VF-4 Viewfinder spoiled)
- No touchscreen
- Only average good detail (slightly less than RX100 and Pen Mini E-PM2)
- Rigid LCD screen who likes to make macros at ground-level objects and Ü50 is, the more missing
- Very strong flares in backlight (no flares during the RX100 and minimum at Pen without sunshade)
- Automatic programs rather standard scope at RX 100 significantly improved Scene Recognition and scope. Tips for aperture setting to slow shutter speeds presumably to keep ISO low (noise!), Unfortunately you can not specify a minimum shutter speed.
- Too big and heavy for me and no automatic lens cover (as with RX100), no longer pocket Tough. Dramatically larger and heavier than RX100. To prevent "always with you" camera. Actually, you can then also take an equally small Olympus Pen. (Then you can do is change objectives and z.Bsp. Rel good 40-150mm 4.0-5.6 (equivalent to 80-300 KB) costs only 169/190 program) takes you in his pocket mit.Ok the super brilliant Olympus Viewfinder VF4 costs 300 proud, but he has a huge viewfinder image shows a large viewfinder as the best full-format cameras). A friend once said to this viewfinder you feel you stand directly in the image.
- Visible noise already under ISO 800 significantly worse than Pen - mini and worse than RX100
(UN values at ISO 1600 LX100: 2.67 !! RX100 2.00 Pen = 1.55) Why they camera rushes so is beyond me, but it uses a sensor with the same pixel density as the Olympus Pen or OM-D EM-1. That is securely fixed with a Firmwarupdate. It is indeed the original MFT 16 MP sensor taken but exploited only partially.
- No built-in flash
- No built-in ND filter, you can take the blur of 1.7 lens does not necessarily work in very bright sunlight or with very short exposure times. (The optical disadvantages of an electronic shutter can be read on the Internet.)
I recommend prospective sure to read blog of Ming Thein on the LX100, unfortunately in englisch.Kann here but not insert link einafch "Ming Thein AND LX100" googling
I actually "always there" was my best replace RX100. Waiting times from the LX100 Mark II or III. In particular, the unexpected size bothers me particularly. I had also hoped that it at least as little noisy as the Olympus cameras with the same principle probably MFT sensor. Also disappointed the viewfinder he is as sharp but has small magnification.
I highly recommend this camera especially because of their Einstellkonzeptes for first switching from simple cameras. You can learn with their photographing (depth of field, aperture time impact) very well. And she does out of the box very good pictures. Almost no RAW processing necessary. Could DXO denoise not test with RAW images as LX100 not yet supported.
Many are hoping for by designing the LX100 a special exemption potential. It should always see the potential exemption (DPF) only in the context of the sensor size. For example, shooting with Aperture 2.8 with a fully exploited MFT sensor, raise a similar exemption (DPF) as a recording with a full frame with aperture 5.6! Since the LX 100 but uses only about 75% of the MFT sensor, corresponds to the Freistellungspotentail rather the aperture more than 6 at a full frame camera. In this respect, we can not compare with other MFT lenses the lens LX. The kit 14-42 with 3.5 maximum aperture would at the LX an exemption potential of approximately 2.6 -2.8.
