The trouble with this whole adding a red dot for $2-300 is that you can't buy the LX3 anywhere right now - save for overpriced rip-off merchants.
What kills me is my old Elph grew fungus in its lens (can you believe it?) and I settled on the LX3 as the perfect replacement. Not too long ago, it was selling for $400. Now the only option is a $699 tweaked LX3 with a Leica sticker. Even worse, it seems like Panasonic have decided they can make more money this way with this cam... that Leica and Panasonic have cooked up a strategy.
So, truth is, I am pretty down on both companies right now... though supply and demand is what it is.
I hope the Olympus Pen EP1 blows them all out the water and leaves them scrambling. You want something special now? Don't dream of this safari nonsense. Get the Pen.
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This camera is pure vanity.
The trouble with this whole adding a red dot for $2-300 is that you can't buy the LX3 anywhere right now - save for overpriced rip-off merchants.
What kills me is my old Elph grew fungus in its lens (can you believe it?) and I settled on the LX3 as the perfect replacement. Not too long ago, it was selling for $400. Now the only option is a $699 tweaked LX3 with a Leica sticker. Even worse, it seems like Panasonic have decided they can make more money this way with this cam... that Leica and Panasonic have cooked up a strategy.
So, truth is, I am pretty down on both companies right now... though supply and demand is what it is.
I hope the Olympus Pen EP1 blows them all out the water and leaves them scrambling. You want something special now? Don't dream of this safari nonsense. Get the Pen.