Returned the LX7

It's a brilliant piece of engineering with a great lens, but I just couldn't get over its mediocre sensor performance and irritating idiosyncrasies such as the lens that retracts after a few seconds of viewing images (which you can't disable) and the lens cap which is so fiddly to handle, especially for those of us with large hands, that it seems to have been deliberately designed to frustrate customers! I tried to accept its shortcomings, especially since I got it for only $299, but I couldn't event at that price.

If the next version of the camera will have a better sensor and a proper mechanical lens cap (the aftermarket one for the LX7 makes it look like a fisher price toy!), I'll be the first in line to buy it since the rest of the camera is just about perfect. Till then, I'll be sticking to m4/3 cameras, of which I own 2.