First the positives:
The facilities (their repetition, I want to give here) would be considered for earning at least 6 stars. Likewise, the video qualities are ausgezeichent - for me but just a positive side effect. Autofocus works quickly and accurately. The feel is m. E. very valuable - not a trace of cheap plastic camera.
I had bought the FZ100 to traveling flexible to be able to be with the large zoom range in landscape, portrait or even taking pictures of animals. However, I wanted to have at least an equal, actually better picture quality than the LX2.
So portrayed in various weather conditions with two cameras out into nature, dog and wife and made some interior shots in automatic and in P mode. You have (unfortunately) not a pixel peeper (which I'm not) be to determine glaring quality differences between FZ100 and LX2. Also shot at ISO100 and best photo weather images clearly detail poorer than in the small LX2 when viewed on the LCD TV and PC monitor with the FZ100. This already without (!) The 100% view. From ISO200 noise reduction (even with setting -1 or -2) intervenes violently, leading to further loss of detail. The worse the lighting conditions (overcast skies, indoors) is the higher the noise and loss of detail in the FZ100. From a meadow with clearly recognizable blades of grass (LX2) is a pulpy mass (FZ100). Indoor shots (with flash, then ISO160) unfortunately show a similarly bad picture.
The test with the FZ45 brought against the FZ100 at least a significant improvement in quality (CCD instead of CMOS?), But decrease compared with the older LX2 still look too bad to issue a buy recommendation for this.
Very schde because as written above, the FZ100 / 45 would be an ideal travel and Always-In-Camera. However, I personally have the sacrificing image quality clearly too big to keep.
I wonder how it can be so large differences occur in particular their image quality when assessing the FZ100 and assume that really is not any negative reviewer a "know-alls" or have a lot of positive reviews "tomatoes on the eyes." My personal guess is that the series dispersion in the FZ100 obvious lack of uniform quality control is very broad.
