Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Camera reviews - a spectator sport


Beside a church, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Today appeared the long-anticipated Dpreview missive on the Canon G10. The review caused quite a reaction by giving the camera only an Recommended rating.

For me it was quite sad to see another confirmation for the megapixel problem with the G10 - there is too much noise to make it useable over the base ISO. I would very much like to see compact cameras competing in the image quality department, but Canon at least seems to be doing a far from class-leading effort in this area.

It is sad situation indeed that the LX3 seems to be (almost) alone in that sector of the market. When mine at some point ceases to function, I sincerely hope the camera technology has progressed from the current situation, but at this moment there is not much hope for that.

The photo here was taken this evening after it stopped snowing for a while. New white snow is a beautiful thing. Currently it is snowing again - and tomorrow we will probably get rain. So it goes.

Here is for reference a list of Panasonic LX3 reviews, of which the two first are quite recent ones:

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