Panasonic LX5 leaked on UK website

12 Comments

1. Jason Litka
   Posted July 6, 2010 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

   Any thoughts as to specs? A slightly longer lens & 720p recording would be nice. Wouldn’t take it at the expense of aperture though.

   • PR admin
     Posted July 6, 2010 at 8:35 pm | Permalink

     No, there were some rumors of m4/3 sensor, but this could be for a different camera.

     • Jason Litka
       Posted July 7, 2010 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

       That would be a huge upgrade. The LX-series is pretty small though, would a m4/3 sensor even fit?

   • Jason Litka
     Posted July 7, 2010 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

     Whoops, apparently it already does 720p. What do I know, I’ve never shot video with my LX3… Still want a slightly longer lens though. Something like 24-70 would be great.

2. dude
   Posted July 6, 2010 at 9:23 pm | Permalink

   hopefully comes with fullframe sensor, f/1.4, iso819200

3. John Hinkey
   Posted July 6, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Permalink

   As an owner of a LX-3 for a couple of years now I which it had:
   (1) Larger Sensor @ same resolution (better noise characteristics)
   (2) Keep the multi-aspect sensor and the OIS
   (3) 24-85mm FX equivalent FOV
   (4) f/2 is nice, but I’d take f/2.8 for the wider range
   (5) 720p video would be nice (it doesn’t do 720p already?)
   (6) Optional electronic viewfinder (for those impossible sunny days)

   - J

   • Eric Pepin
     Posted July 7, 2010 at 12:25 am | Permalink

     id rather have a 1.8 prime and a 4×3 rds sensor along with the optional viewfinder.

   • SZRimaging
     Posted July 7, 2010 at 10:04 am | Permalink

     I agree with everything except a couple of points. It does shoot 720p already. I have used it a few times since it is handy and can tuck into some small places and out of the way.

     With a larger sensor, and I agree we need that, I think f2 or f2.8 should do it.

     I would prefer more of an 24mm to 105mm. This would cover most of what I shoot when I am using this camera.

     And a physically shorter lens to increase compactness.

4. Barret
   Posted July 7, 2010 at 10:02 am | Permalink

   For the video feature just add AVCHD lite encoding and give it a decent microphone. The sound recording on the lx3 is worse than an old cellphone.

   For the camera itself, I wish for a slightly larger backlit sensor with better ISO performance and if possible just a bit longer zoom. 24-90

   Oh and add an automatic lens cap. The only thing S90 has over the LX3 is pocketability and the ayto lens cap!

5. Michael
   Posted July 7, 2010 at 10:10 pm | Permalink

   @Eric pepin

   Well, that camera already exist, with a f1.7 lens : it’s called a GF-1.

6. Mike again
   Posted July 8, 2010 at 8:37 am | Permalink

   I have the LX3 and am pretty satisfied with it except one thing, the RAW is still absolutely SHIT quality, big pixelations las if it was a hard compressed JPG… come on Panasonic, there’s no effective 10 Mp!! (I have a D700 too and can clearly see the difference thought D700 have only 2Mp more which in practice should be q.u.i.t.e negligible.)

   The only thing I would wish in the successor would be MUCH MUCH BETTER RAW, higher ISO and maybe stretch the zoom a tiny bit on the long end.

7. PPL
   Posted July 8, 2010 at 5:10 pm | Permalink

   sensor: 4/3

   zoom Leica x3

   Leica Digilux look !

   Best regards.