Digital Camera Reviews - Customer reviews - Panasonic DMC-LX3 10.1MP Digital Camera with 24mm Wide Angle MEGA Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)

Manufacturer: Panasonic

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Name: Daniel S. Glickman
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Date: 2010-01-07
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Amazing camera with great IQ and a fast, wide lens
Comment: I was looking for a high quality compact camera to take on motorcycle trips and use as a walk-around camera for shooting landscapes, street scenes and nature shots. After doing extensive research, my short list contained the LX3, the G11 and the S90.

While the Canons are good cameras, I went with the LX3 mainly due to the incredible images this fine machine produces. It has a magnificent, wide and fast lens that allows indoor and low-light shooting without flash. Build quality is superb, this is a very solid camera that has a real retro look and feel. While it can be used as a high quality p&s, it also has tremendous manual capabilities. This is a camera you can grow with, a camera that will enhance your skills as a photographer, a camera that is a keeper.

The LX3 is not quite jeans pocketable due to its wonderful lens, but it slips easily into a jacket pocket or the pocket of cargo shorts. Having grown up on 35mm SLRs, I have no problem with the lens cap. It also has a very bright and clear screen, which is a pleasure to compose shots with, even in sunlight.

For those waivering on the LX3 due to its small zoom range, I have not found this to be a problem. Either walk closer to your subject (always a good idea) or reduce the megapixel size and you then have 4.5 X optical zoom to work with.

I highly recommend this amazing camera - it is in a class by itself.

Name: T. McIntosh
Location: Santa Clara CA
Date: 2010-05-06
Customer Rating: -

Summary: A camera that works
Comment: I've used a whole range of cameras, and own everything from a 4x5 field camera, to medium format, to SLR, to DSLR, etc. With all my cameras, I make sure each one works as a tool for a specific situation. The one niche I wasn't able to find in digital imaging for my wife or myself was something small, like my old Pentax slr or a rangefinder, that could take a good picture in difficult situations. This did the trick.

I've given my wife a few P&S's and gone through a few myself, but nothing really did the job. What we expect out of a P&S is pretty demanding if you think about it, so I haven't been too surprised that most can't pull it off. Shoot fast, while everything is in motion often, in low light most of the time, with all sorts of mixed light, all in a small package. Even using my pro cameras I would have a difficult time managing that.

This camera gets pretty close, with a fast lens, fast electronics, good size (not too small for my big hands or to induce a lot of shaking). The image quality is good, and the addition of the HD video and variable image formats, make this the camera we never leave behind now.

Name: Paul C. Huang
Location: Arcadia, CA
Date: 2008-12-01
Customer Rating: -

Summary: surprisingly good 'all around' camera
Comment: I have been using the LX3 for about 1.5 months. I find it to be a good substitute for my DSLR in many situations.

One weird thing about it: when the lens is set at the widest setting the lens is fully extended. This works really well, because I can put on the lens adapter and use it like a lens shade. In other situations, if you have shading for wide, you have no protection for telephoto. Not so for this camera, because if the lens shade is not blocking anything at wide, it certainly is not going to block anything at the telephoto (retracted position).

Those who use off-camera flash/strobes should consider a hotshoe-to-PC synch cord adapter such as the Nikon AS-15. I used this camera to do my son's passport pictures and it worked surprisingly well.

This camera is designed for those who crave for wide coverage. Those who like to use 85mm+ lenses on a full-frame DSLR (equivalent) should not consider this one.

Name: J. Wong
Location: Portland, OR
Date: 2008-12-27
Customer Rating: -

Summary: A Surprisingly Good Compact
Comment: I've had my LX3 for a couple of weeks now, and shot everything with it from landscapes to portraits and Xmas candids. It has produced a surprising number of impressively good images. It's produced city scapes with great detail at 100% in Photoshop, and portraits with smooth, lifelike tone and colors that show pores and individual hairs on faces.

The LX3 does have its weaknesses. Noise is often visible in shadowed areas on many images, even with the lower ISO's. It can't compete with DSLR's for fine color contrast (for example, hair). Auto white balance and auto focus sometimes miss the mark. Get this camera out of its comfort zone and it will remind you it is a compact. I also wish it extended beyond its conservative 2.5x (ignore the 2.0x description above--the LX3 is a 2.5).

This is the first compact, however, that I've ever really considered a workable DSLR substitute. My prior compact, a Canon G7, gave up too much resolution and picked up too much noise at ISO 200 and above for confidence with reliably capturing that one great impromptu shot. My LX3 recently produced a pic of two orange koi in a pond at ISO 400 that shows why the folks at dpreview praise this camera's mid-range ISO performance---the shot is surprisingly clean and the colors are vibrant (with a little Photoshop work). If you can recognize and work within this camera's limitations, the LX3 can be a fun and great tool. Best compact I've ever owned.

Name: Jonathan Warner
Location: Ohio, USA
Date: 2009-01-06
Customer Rating: -

Summary: great samll camera
Comment: As a professional photographer I am picky about image quality and camera controls. This is a great small camera with outstanding image quality. I love it for natural light photography and the wide lens is perfect for scenics and travel. If the noise level is not as good as good SLR so what... it comes very close and I can take it with me all the time.

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