Panasonic DMC-LX2K 10.2MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)

Customer Reviews:

Panasonic DMC-LX2K.......2007-12-28

Very good point and shoot. Tons of manual features. Excellent skin colors in day light shooting. Excellent lens. The flash could be better. It is either too strong or too weak.

nearly good as a SLR camera.......2007-12-24

overall a great product, but you are not able to use only the automtic program. Most time the pictures are overexposed, so you have to adjust the fash a little.If you do so, you are getting nearly the same picture quality as a SLR camera.the camera has a top level leica objective and a grat cmos sensor. also you are able to make great wide angle pictures. material and design are high quality.

I'm happy with it.

good compromise for the price.......2007-12-08

i was looking for an easy to carry camera with manual/slr features. so the choice was between this, the canon m9, ricoh capilo gx100, or nikon p5100. since i wanted as wide an angle lens as possible, but had limited funds, i went with the lx2 (the ricoh goes to 24mm equiv but is significantly more expensive). my main concern was that, compare to the others, i was losing out in getting a much less "professional" camera with poorest image quality in the class.

after using the camera for some time, i think i probably made the right decision, although perhaps it would have been worth spending more for a wider lens. certainly the lx2 was stronger than i expected: the image quality was fine, the build was good, and i have found it very easy to use.

image quality (noise) seems to be a big issue with the lx2. the following comments are probably specific to the way i use the camera (you may want to look on flickr - just search for my name). in particular, i don't make large prints and i tend to use wide angles (on the other hand, i use available light).

in practice, then, i always use iso 100 and see no noise problems. this may sound crazy, but three camera features make it quite reasonable. first, the lens is fairly fast (at wide angles), second the image stabilisation is excellent, and third the camera has automatic image bracketing. so with +/- 1/3 stop bracketing you get three reasonable exposures, which means one should be ok even at "extreme" exposure times (like 1/4s).

one other issue i was apprehensive about was the lack of a viewfinder. again this has turned out to be fine in practice - the screen is very good, with a bright mode that is sufficient for chilean sunshine and also an "angled" mode (which is bright too) that is surprisingly useful when holding the camera at odd angles.

other small points: the 16:9 format sounds like a gimmick but works well in practice (i seem to be saying that a lot!); the lens cap is not as annoying as expected; build is good and, while a bit "shiny" (i would have preferred the plainer leica styling) it looks ok and seems to be wearing well.

if you understand a manual slr then working the camera is no problem - i hardly ever need to go through menus since all the common controls are available more-or-less directly. the four buttons on the back arranged in a circle are, when you are using the camera normally, mapped to specific functions, while the most critical parameters, like shutter speed or focus, are controlled via the joystick (left/right to select a function and up/down to adjust - the screen helps you along and it comes to feel quite natural and quick).

my main criticisms (apart from wanting 24mm) are common to all in this class: they are a bit bulky to pocket (the lens+cap on the lx2 doubles its thickness) and the fastest aperture is nothing like wide enough for shallow depth of field (especially since min aperture increases with focal length).

Panasonic DMC-LX2K CAMERA.......2007-11-14

I have a few mixed feelings about this camera, mostly favorable, a few gripes.
Plusses: Great Leica lens, 4x zoom goes from 28mm equivalent - 112mm. Handy focal lengths, compact metal body, nicely designed, lots of features for the experienced photographer as well as the rank beginner, huge, bright LCD display screen. This is the same camera as the Leica, but at a considerably lower price.
Minuses: I wish it had an optical viewfinder. In bright sunlight the LCD screen is almost useless. Flash is underpowered. I wish the lens retracted into the body, as it is difficult to find a small case that will fit it. It would also have made it more pocketable. I bought this unit so that I could have a camera with me all the time, It is a bit too big to comfortably fit into my shirt pocket. I don't much care for the lens cap being attached to the body by a cord. Over ISO 200 there is too much noise.
My complaints are mostly about minor things, but I hope that Panasonic remedies them in future versions.

Panasonic DMC-LX2K Camera.......2007-10-28

Fantastic. I owned the older version of this camera when a friend broke it. After spending nearly a month looking at other cameras I came back to this one. Great quality photos. It's as manual or as automatic as you want. Spend the extra $$ for the Leica version if you want the cooler outer case and Leica name.

Product Description

Smaller size, but big performance! Simmons Rimfire collection is scaled down in size with 3/4-inch tubes for smaller rifles. All are calibrated parallax free at 50 yards for shorter rimfire ranges. They come complete with a set of rings ready to be mounted on your favorite rimfire rifle. Field of View(ft. 100 yds) 19. Eye Relief (inches) 3. Exit Pupil (mm) 5. Weight (ounces) 3.25. Click Value (MOA) 1/2. Adjustment (Range) 60/60. Reticle Truplex. Parallax Settings 50 yds.

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