In continued coverage of Ricoh GX100 image quality, I am providing a link here to some excellent work by Björn Utpott (viztyger) comparing images from the GX100 and the Panasonic DMC-LX2, another excellent choice for a wide angle-capable compact camera with access to RAW files. Click here to see Björn's comparison photos, and click here to see a DPReview thread with discussion regarding these photos.

Based on previous trends, it is likely that Panasonic will introduce a replacement for the LX2 soon. Hopefully Panasonic will continue to provide some much needed innovation in this market segment.

Addendum:
Björn has very kindly offered for me to include his comments and embed his images on this blog. For his most recent full series, a terrific resource, be sure to click here. For now, I will embed just one of his comparison photos showing side-by-side crops from the LX2 and GX100.

Here first is his commentary, quoted from a post in a DPR thread:

"There seems to be a difference in how "raw" the RAW files are. In the following high contrast scene, the converted LX2 file has all the brick detail smeared away in the shadows - have a look at the bottom of the converted image.

The converted Ricoh GX100 DNG file retains brick detail in the same shadow areas at the bottom of the crop.

In both conversions, I was able to restore highlight detail in the white siding, that was absent in the out-of-camera JPEGs."

Now for the images to which the above quote refers (Click for full size):



Thanks again to Björn for the great information!