Two (hopefully) new videos on the LX100 I hadn't seen yet:
And a lenghty hands-on:
Ah, finally! Real test images!
Looking good to me - just as the GH4's, only with slightly lower resolution. I processed the ISO 25600 RAW sample shot using RawTherapee, just to see whether there's any trouble with it - worked without problems. And the result IMHO looks significantly better than the JPEG from the camera.
JPEG generated from the raw file using RawTherapee:
http://filebin.net/dd37rwlcz0/LX100hSLI25600NR1.jpg
JPEG from LX100, NR=6
http://216.18.212.226/PRODS/panasonic-lx100/FULLRES/LX100hSLI25600NR6D.JPG
Focus Numerique has now published detailed studio tests on the LX100's still image quality.
The LX100 offers an impressive combination of lens and sensor, without the size that would be necessary for such a bright zoom lens if you were trying to get the same with an interchangeable lens camera, in fact the lens on offer here is brighter than the typical 24-70mm equivalent lens, such as the f/2.8 Panasonic 12-35mm Micro Four Thirds lens, and considerably smaller. The LX100 is one of very few digital cameras capable of recording 4K video and as one of the smallest currently available, this will be a big selling point of this camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5MdVoc-hQPU
ephotozine have posted their full review (after a preview and some sample, which were linked earlier in this thread).
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/panasonic-lumix-dmc-lx100-full-review-26173
beautiful berlin. but where do the pixels in 2:25 come from?
One spec that I'm not happy about: 1080p video recording bandwidth is limited to 28MBit/s, which as we all know is way too little. I wonder why Panasonic would support 100MBit/s recording for 4k, but only 28MBit/s for 1080p...
A 100,- € price drop before the first units are shipped? One German dealer currently offers the LX100 for 799,- € instead of 899,- € like all the others. Might of course also be called a mistake once you order... haven't tried.
Lab measurements available from Techradar now.
These charts actually look almost too good to be true to me. I haven't seen that much of a difference in the test shots by other reviewers.
The Techradar charts look really crazy when it comes to comparing JPEG dynamic range vs RAW dynamic range. LX7, Sony, Fuji RAW dynamic is much better than JPEG dynamic. How is possible?
Real world sample images:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2014/10/13/panasonic-lx100-initial-gallery-posted
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/panasonic-lx100/panasonic-lx100GALLERY.HTM
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100 is the most capable compact camera that we've ever reviewed, offering a mouth-watering combination of cutting edge technology, excellent image quality, and intuitive handling.
http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/panasonic_lumix_dmc_lx100_review/
Just for the record: My scepticism about the 100,- € price drop at German dealers is gone now that at least 4 different serious dealers offer the LX100 at 799,- €.
And here's the english LX100 manual for download from Panasonic.
And the DMW-LFAC1 automatic lens cap is suspicously absent from German dealers, Panasonic lists it, but offers no "buy" link.
@karl I read somewhere that the Europe LX100 sales promo included the cap for free for a limited time.
ETA - OK, perhaps it's just the UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=5331199031
dpreview.com has added studio shots from the LX100 to their "comparison tool" recently.
But the LX100 images they converted from RAW are flawed beyond being usable - they exhibit false color artefacts which are not really there (at least not if you use the "amaze" demosaicing algorithm with "false color supression" enabled). When correctly converted from the RAW (that you can download from dpreview.com), the images from the LX100 show as little/none of the "false colors" as do the GH4 images.
The video is sharp, the codec renders motion and high frequency patterns excellently, and the camera produces usable video with barely any light at all. The lens and sensor combination even provide fairly narrow depth of field, giving you the look of a far more advanced (read: expensive) video camera.
http://cameras.reviewed.com/content/panasonic-lx100-digital-camera-review
For the size reduction, we adopted a six-group zoom lens component in the LX100 based on an ingenious approach completely different from conventional ideas. As a result, we were able to reduce the lens diameter and the overall lens thickness. Furthermore, by utilizing the thin lens barrel design technology cultivated through the development of our compact digital cameras, we achieved an advanced lens construction while keeping the lens barrel size as small as that of the LX7.
Another review at cameralabs.com, including some interesting low-light video tests.
LX100 viewfinder coverage is almost AdobeRGB
From interview http://news.mapcamera.com/maptimes.php?itemid=25685
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