Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Annoyances with Panasonic LX3 (real or potential)

Having used a Panasonic LX3 for a day now, here is a list of the real or potential annoyances I have noticed so far:

  • Using the lens cover. Somehow I always manage to try to put it on the wrong way. On the other hand, the cover stays on really well, no danger of it dropping of by accident.
  • No orientation sensor (?). On my Ixus 400, the camera wrote orientation information into image files (portrait or landscape), and thus you usually didn't need to rotate the photos afterwards.
  • A bit oversaturated colors on the LCD. There may be a setting where you can modify this (?).
  • A great deal of settings. It seems that I ran all the time into new settings and possibilities to modify the camera functionality. And the logic of some standard functionality sometimes escapes me. For example, in what modes is it possible to use exposure compensation?
  • Noise in (really) low light. The camera copes well in relatively low light, but there is a point when the noise increases significantly, between ISO 400 and 800 using longer exposures. However, you shouldn't expect any different from a compact camera, however good the sensor.

However, all these annoyances are quite minor compared to the overall image quality, excellent construction and joy of using the camera.

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