Lumix DMC-LX2 is Blah
If you’re a camera then you’re supposed to take pictures; if you don’t take good pictures then you are not a good camera.
Even if you’re equipped with a top-of-the-line 2.8-inch 16:9 aspect ratio LCD screen, or a 10.4-megapixel CCD image sensor, or your Venus Engine III, or whatever…if you don’t take great pictures you, sir, are blah.
You see, the problem here, ladies and gentlemen, is that the Lumix DMC-LX2 takes noisy pictures. Yes, very loudly! Even at ISO 200 - and that’s not a very high setting - the LX2 “displays some noise, with ISO 400 being both noisy and blurred as the camera attempts to mask the noise; ISO 800 and 1600 should simply be avoided if possible,” according to a PhotographyBLOG review.
And there’s more. DPreview also confirmed this excessive acoustics, photographically speaking, of the Lumix LX2 and cited another one of its infractions, “a processing engine that replaces fine detail with smeary, watercolor-like artefacts.”
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 would have ranked better were it classed among the lower-priced compact digicams. But at about $500, I’d rather get me a decent DSLR.
You style yourself very fashionably and stuff yourself with high-end features so you can command a high price. But you take washed out pictures. So you, sir LX2, are hereby marked BLAH.
Next case, please. (chrismalinao)
