New LX7 not sharp enough, what am I doing wrong??

Erik Ohlson wrote:

Hi, Gary,

This exact picture, and the brick wall Paramount Theatre wall on Steve's Digicam's site......:

http://www.steves-digicams.com/camera-reviews/panasonic/lumix-dmc-lx7/P1060094.JPG

..........were what convinced me to give the LX a try. I wanted to see for myself, now I have.

In actual practice, with my own test scene, I find the difference too small to worry about, and I actually prefer the ZS19 image - it is "crisper" call it "oversharpened" or whatever, it is visually more appealing to me. Even though I never sharpened it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, for the record: If you have to look that hard to see a difference, the difference is negligible; there really is no difference.

SO, IMHO - and for MY use, MY "humble opinion" is all that counts, there isn't a dime's worth of difference at wide settings, and the LX can't even start on long settings, plus the price & form factor, the ZS19 is the better camera. No contest.

Of COURSE "YMMV"