Panasonic LX3 Review at DPReview
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Richard Butler's Panasonic LX3 review is up at DPReview. It was nice to see Björn Utpott's sensor diagram, posted here on Serious Compacts back in July, prominently displayed on the first page of the review!

It is a good, thoughtful review overall, though like other reviews in that it focused on the in-camera JPEG image quality. What sets the LX3/D-LUX, GX200/GRD II, G10, and P6000 apart from other small sensor compacts is the ability to shoot RAW. It's disappointing to see so little analysis of image quality in RAW in such an otherwise comprehensive review of a camera that people buy largely for its ability to shoot RAW.

Link: DPReview - Panasonic LX3 Review

[Thanks Fred W]

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efat · 857 weeks ago

However, the good news is that Adobe Camera Raw 5.2 will support LX3 ;-)
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicdmclx3/p...
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oluv · 857 weeks ago

from the results i have seen on dpreview, the output from ACR doesn't seem to be overwhelming. even with additional sharpening the results are a bit,... well soft. but the funny thing is, that if you compare both jpeg and ACR raw they seem to be totally equal distorion-wise. so panasonic finally managed to convince adobe implementing some lens-distorion tools? how has that come? ;-)
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amin 67p · 857 weeks ago

Hi Oluv, I had the same observations!
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cr · 857 weeks ago

I can only find ACR samples on page 15, from those samples, it's quite hard to judge whether ACR adjusted distortion or not, the crops are not big enough...
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oluv · 857 weeks ago

you can click on the crops to see them full-size, here the iso100 ACR-sample:
http://a.img-dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicDMCLX3...
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cr · 857 weeks ago

Thanks for the info, possible they just correct the distortion manually?
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efat · 857 weeks ago

I doubt. I think that distortion correction tool will be a key feature of LR3. Automatic correction for LX3 would be a dangerous precedent. However, to be honest: I would be very happy with such automatic correction built in Lightroom.
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cr · 857 weeks ago

confused about the "however" part...@_@
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JPEG · 857 weeks ago

Go JPEG!
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amin 67p · 857 weeks ago

Ha ha!
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JPEG · 857 weeks ago

[tail between legs] Umm,, I was serious... I shoot JPEG only... really.
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JH · 857 weeks ago

I bought the LX3 partly because of RAW, but have shot less that 100 of them - and more than 10,000 jpegs.

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