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Wait until mk2 announced, you’ll get it for $700, which is great for 12-35 f2.8 lens with body
That’s what I’m thinking. The 12-35 lens that sells for $900 plus is just too unwieldy. And I am willing to sacrifice a bit in IQ to have a cheaper more compact fast lens camera at the ready.
Hoping it will be $600 by summer.
$600 is a bit stretchy for this summer, but below $700 is probably likely. I’m not buying this anyway because already bought GX7 with 20mm for $600, attaching various manual lens found cheap on junk or auctions.
The really deep discounts will happen once the Mark II is announced. However, I assume many others, including myself, are waiting for the next version to solve the issues of the first. If the Mark II comes with a tilting touchscreen, weather sealing, and microphone/headphone jacks it will be a true winner.
If it had a touch screen I would buy it at 800. That seems like a clueless omission to me. It’s pretty much how I interact with my Gx7 from focusing to reviewing, cant imagine a cam without it.
Yeah, I turned off touchscreen on my GX1, thought I would do the same to my GX7 when I first received it, but now I think all camera should have it. Good UI+responsive touchscreen making it a valuable tool.
I dunno… that lens is only a hair over 300grams in weight. If that is unwieldy, you might want to swear off ILCs for awhile until 1″ ILCs start getting good.
Actually is a 12-35mm f/1,8-2,8 equivalent lens :).
Which is better, just want to make comparison to existing 12-35 lens. Why pay more for a lens when you can get better f-stop and more compact?
Have you heard a term sharpness?
Agree but @scum has a point. I wish for a lens like this for the m4/3 system.
The lens still performs better than many of the cheaper m43 primes and is faster than some of them at their focal lengths.
Is that true? What primes does it perform better than? (The Olympus 17mm f2.8 doesn’t really count – is it even still being sold?)
I’m pretty skeptical of that, if only because the 12MP crop would have a big effect on sharpness compared to a downsampled 16MP M4/3 file that uses the full image circle with a good lens. Especially the corners…
Sharpness seems comparable to the Panasonic 20mm. http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/54352594 So I’d say it performs better than any of the primes that are worse than the 20. I can’t say I’ve seen much of a difference between it and my 17 f/1.8, so I sold it. It’s not as sharp, obviously, as the Panasonic 25 and Olympus 45, so I kept those.
Weird link to post, since there’s literally zero evidence in it, just someone’s conjecture based on pre-release commentary.
From DXOMark’s testing (love it or leave it) the 20mm/1.7 is also clearly a much stronger performer than the 17/1.8. It matches the 25/1.4 until stopped down to about f2.8 where the 25 gets better corners. Most tests also don’t show the 45mm as being sharper than the 20mm. I imagine a lot of all of this comes down to sample variation, though.
I think maybe the LX100 just has bad JPEGs, because I wasn’t really impressed with any of the early shots I saw. I was quite disappointed, in fact. I’m sure there are people who have gotten better results of it, though, and I’m sure RAW helps a lot.
Yeah, all my references are to RAW. I haven’t shot JPEG on any of my cameras.
Yep. All the early sample photos that were JPEGs were pretty poor on the resolution side. The RAWs I have seen look MUCH better. I wish Panasonic would just steal Oly’s JPEG algorithms as I feel they are definitely a step ahead of Panny in this regard.
The price is dropping sharply in Switzerland. It is sold now for 700 CHF or 775 USD.
I paid $777 on black friday for a new LX100 with US warranty from Amazon and sold by Amazon.com. So this price is still on the high side.
Picked up an unused demo model at this price when it first came out. Haven’t been disappointed.
Dang camera would be a no-brainer with a tiltable touchscreen.
I will wait until Christmas 15, when it will sell for $599. However, I may consider the LX200 at that time.
it would be cheaper to just pick up an E-PM2 with a zoom or a oly 25mm. just saying. the camera is ultralight and the lenses don’t add much weight to the overall package.
f/2.8 zoom costs more than this camera alone.