Avoid Panas, just forget that this company with mentality of bycicles, electric irons and bulbs exists in photography. They can not make good cameras. Such happen, that because this is Japan which monopolised camera market and not neighbour China, India or Russia, Panas makes cameras instead of cleaning cow sh#t on their farms. You will quickly find a lot of compromises in each detail in this chip @#$%. Have you forgotten damn LX1 and LX2 ? Two world noisiest cameras, with just 12MB(!!!!) or RAM and 6 sec RAW recording time, washed colors LCD at any angle?
But if you are asking about LX3 vs DP2 then, well, LX3 is right now OK for you. It's of course better then nothing. DP1&2 is not for everyone (I will not buy it too, unlesss it will be for free. Unfortunately Sigma also can not make cameras, it's not their prime business, they make lenses. Or may be we also have to remember here cow sh#t).
It has a larger sensor, and from what we've seen of the DP1, images at low ISOs are excellent. _But_ high ISO images aren't as good as those coming from Nikon, Canon, Pentax, etc. DSLRs. It's also very slow to use.
The LX3 is another camera aimed at the same market (photographers who want a high-quality, manual-control compact). It has a much faster wide, a zoom range that covers the traditional street-photographer focal lengths, and much faster operational speed. But, you're going to have to use discretion with pictures over ISO 400 - how much higher depends on how much you crop, your tolerance for noise/NR, and final display size.
The LX3 is a better camera to use (faster lens, faster write/AF/shooting speed) and has a faster lens, but it trades off high ISO image quality to get there.
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Is this better than the Lumix LX3 ?
Anyone ?
Avoid Panas, just forget that this company with mentality of bycicles, electric irons and bulbs exists in photography. They can not make good cameras. Such happen, that because this is Japan which monopolised camera market and not neighbour China, India or Russia, Panas makes cameras instead of cleaning cow sh#t on their farms. You will quickly find a lot of compromises in each detail in this chip @#$%. Have you forgotten damn LX1 and LX2 ? Two world noisiest cameras, with just 12MB(!!!!) or RAM and 6 sec RAW recording time, washed colors LCD at any angle?
But if you are asking about LX3 vs DP2 then, well, LX3 is right now OK for you. It's of course better then nothing. DP1&2 is not for everyone (I will not buy it too, unlesss it will be for free. Unfortunately Sigma also can not make cameras, it's not their prime business, they make lenses. Or may be we also have to remember here cow sh#t).
Yes and no.
It has a larger sensor, and from what we've seen of the DP1, images at low ISOs are excellent. _But_ high ISO images aren't as good as those coming from Nikon, Canon, Pentax, etc. DSLRs. It's also very slow to use.
The LX3 is another camera aimed at the same market (photographers who want a high-quality, manual-control compact). It has a much faster wide, a zoom range that covers the traditional street-photographer focal lengths, and much faster operational speed. But, you're going to have to use discretion with pictures over ISO 400 - how much higher depends on how much you crop, your tolerance for noise/NR, and final display size.
The LX3 is a better camera to use (faster lens, faster write/AF/shooting speed) and has a faster lens, but it trades off high ISO image quality to get there.