{"id":20884,"date":"2015-03-01T07:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=20884"},"modified":"2017-02-25T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T03:55:38","slug":"panasonic-dmc-lx100-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2015\/03\/01\/panasonic-dmc-lx100-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic DMC-LX100 – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing from my earlier post<\/a> of what’s working well on the LX100!<\/p>\n

The first LX100 that I picked up from the shop tested fine there. But barely 20 minutes later when I’d left the shop and was on my way home, the camera suffered a catastrophic sensor failure – similar to what at last one other Amazon owner had also reported. The shop changed the set immediately without question, thankfully – but that the first unit had failed so quickly left me feeling a little worried if the second one is going to suffer the same fault soon.<\/p>\n

\"Sensor
Sensor failure. This is what’s seen on the viewfinder, and stored when the shutter is released.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The images the LX100 produces so far are good relative to small sensor compact cameras, but it’s also not near what the E-PL6 and E-M5 can produce, let alone cameras with even larger sensors than that. Not really a negative as I knew what the LX100’s limits are, but still.<\/p>\n

Non-articulating and non-touch screen. These two were my biggest limitations of the LX100. I’ll have to count on some other camera for Daddy-Hannah selfie shots, and I’ve been spoiled by touchscreen AF too. I never figured I’d be a fan of touchscreen AF, but it’s incredibly useful on small and light cameras like my E-PL6. Heck – I use touchscreen AF on that more than I use spot or multi-point AF.<\/p>\n

Start-up and shutting down is, ugh, s l o w. And the lens barrel protrudes an additional 4cm out as soon as it turns on. Zooming in to the uppermost focal length will extend the barrel by a few more cm.<\/p>\n

Customization menus are comprehensive and deep but also perplexing! It’s somewhat better organized and visually more pleasing than Olympus’, but on a couple of occasions, I was scratching my head wondering why options I wanted were disabled. For instance; I was flummoxed<\/span> why the panorama mode had been greyed out in one of the nested options, and the user manual was no help, nor the built-in help. It was only through checking online with other users who faced the same difficulty did I realize that the camera had been set to RAW, and had to be switched back to JPG before the panorama option would be enabled. Duh.<\/p>\n

Alright; couple of pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Hannah
Hannah is hooked onto Tom & Jerry cartoons while Peter entertains himself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Peter
Peter making faces!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Waiting
Waiting for her morning school bus at 0655 hrs. The bus-stop was actually quite dimly lit, but sufficient facial detail was retrieved through Adobe Camera Raw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Minton at late night. The blog photo here is too small to tell image details, but the shot was dialed at ISO400 and handheld at 1\/5s – but the image is still sharp. Incredible optical stabilization at work. I did another shot at ISO200 at 1\/2s handheld – and it turned out just as great!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A polycarbonate screen is also on the way to protect the LX100’s rear monitor, alongside a cheapo third party lens cap – just so that the original one supplied with the camera can go right back into the box for safekeeping! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing from my earlier post of what’s working well on the LX100! The first LX100 that I picked up from the shop tested fine there. But barely 20 minutes later when I’d left the shop and was on my way<\/p>\n

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