Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 8.4 Megapixel Compact Camera - Silver

The DMC-LX1 features a 4x optical zoom with a 28 to 112mm wide-angle capability . This and a 1/1.65 diagonal CCD with 8.4 million effective pixels give you superb image quality over a wide shooting range. The extended optical zoom, which minimizes the image degradation that normally occurs with digital zooming, gives you up to 5x zooming power. Plus, the 4x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom can be used together to produce a maximum of 16x zooming power.

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• Reviewed by: jules771

  01-08-06

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  Strengths: great lens, 16:9 ratio, 3:2 ratio, fast, quiet

  Weaknesses:severe noise at all ISO settings

  Overall Evaluation: The camera feature set is very good but the amount of noise in the images is just plainly unacceptable. In Photoshop, if you enlarge the image to even just 50% you can see quite clearly how bad this problem is. It's a shame that Panasonic didn't take more care with the CCD because the rest of the camera is quite good.

• Reviewed by: jmhamer

  11-24-05

  Duration of ownership: 1 Weeks

  Strengths: Small/lightweight yet still included most features of larger SLR-imitations such as wideangle, image stabilization, 8megapixels, strong optical zoom, video, etc.

  Weaknesses:None significant. No viewfinder, a few desirable functions not available in fully-automatic (beginner) mode, display not very well protected. The SD card could be larger.

  Overall Evaluation: I finally abandoned my 15 year old very high end SLR for a tiny camera that does 99% of what it did. I reasearched the heck out of several hundred camers before settling on this one. Far and away the best consolidation of virtually all the features you might ever want and in a very tiny package. The best wide-to-telephoto optical zoom range plus image stabilization and 8mp. If you're serious about lots of pictures or movies, buy a 1 or 2 gb SD card for it.

• Reviewed by: pcderic

  11-16-05

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  Strengths: - Very quick access to manual and automatic features- Auto-replay include quick zoom (to check focus)- Awesome 16:9 photo compositions- Live Histogram

  Weaknesses:- Noisy pictures at ISO 200-400 but fastest pic-to-pic speed (no time wasted with noise reduction)- No viewfinder (but LCD is clear enough)- Zooming is a bit slow (makes startup also slow)

  Overall Evaluation: If you buy this camera, also purchase NeatImage for 30$ (Home Ed.) or something similar such as Noise Ninja. The resulting images will be better than most camera because the software noise reduction is better than what most digicams do. The purchased version of NeatImage allows me to keep the EXIF details (from original file to cleaned-up file) and batch process the noise reduction. You can also use the NeatImage plugin (for a little more $) into Photoshop if you plan on taking pics in RAW (combined with the free Adobe Camera Raw add-on to Photoshop).

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