Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3

Review summary: AN impressive high-end compact camera with a wide-angle 24mm lens and a host of manual features.

Pros: Good colour balance, low chromatic aberration, tonnes of features, wide-angle lens

Cons: Some oversharpening, expensive

Verdict: Panasonic's Lumix DMC-LX3 is an impressive high-end compact camera with a wide-angle 24mm lens and a host of manual features.

Review summary: Could this be the camera of the year?

Pros: Handling, design, build, iA, image quality, lens, manual control

Cons: The lack of an optical viewfinder may irk, while the VF1 accessory finder sacrifices the hot shoe, the tiny joy stick control is fiddly to use too

Verdict: The Panasonic Lumix DMC LX3 is a beautiful little camera that offers a host of features including MEGA O.I.S, Panasonic's optical image stabilising technology and a superb lens. The Lumix LX3 may just be the most complete digital compact for ...

Award: Highly Recommended!

Review summary: Matt Grayson looks at the brand spanking new DMC-LX3 from Panasonic.

Pros: Many features, Great vintage design, Good lens, Excellent macro, Nice colour rendition

Cons: Joystick isn't very responsive, Flimsy battery door, Noise could be better

Verdict: The Panasonic probably has the most creative controls I've seen on a prosumer type to date. It's absolutely loaded with stuff from the film simulations to the aspect ratios and pinhole mode

Review summary: Successor to the popular DMC-LX2 model, the Panasonic DMC-LX3 represents a significant upgrade to its predecessor. Panasonic claims to have improved 'every component' to deliver a camera that will appeal to DSLR photographers who want a capable ...

Verdict: Shots taken with the test camera contained plenty of detail and appeared sharp to the corners of the frame. The dynamic range recorded in outdoor shots was substantially wider than average for a small-sensor digicam. Colours appeared natural and ...

Pros: Good colour balance, low chromatic aberration, tonnes of features, wide-angle lens

Cons: Some oversharpening, expensive

Verdict: Panasonic's Lumix DMC-LX3 is an impressive high-end compact camera with a wide-angle 24mm lens and a host of manual features.