Zebooka wrote:
After using LX5 for half a year I have several dislikes:
What do you dislike?
LX5 attractors : I like the new additional single-area AF focus area (a pity that it resets to a default size so easily, though), the Power OIS that appears to decrease the low-frequency response corner-frequency of the Mega OIS servo-system by approximately one octave, and the preset "Step-Zoom" functionality. An LCD display that is more visible in outdoor lighting environments sounds like a welcome improvement, as well.
The 90mm maximum Focal Length (increased by 50% relative to the LX3).
(The video features are not an area of major personal interest for me), but it is certainly a positive factor that one can adjust the Zoom during the process of video recording (as my FZ50 does with it's own nowadays rather dated video recording modes).
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LX5 detractors : Loss of the ability to record an unlimited continuous stream of 10 Mpixel (Fine) JPGs, loss of the dedicated Focus Button, and the loss of the (very familiar, and very quickly accessible to me) ability to adjust the Manual Exposure Compensation (using the Up Arrow, followed by the Left/Right Arrow buttons). I don't use Bracketing or Flash Compensation very often, but their increased accessibility (via the same controls) would seem to be unfortunate, as well.
Proprietary (and around 5 times more expensive) chipped batteries.
A reported to be significantly less symmetrical MTF(50) response function (in the horizontal as well as the vertical axes around the center of the image-frame) in the LX5 lens-system relative to the LX3 lens-system (perhaps due to lens-element de-centering effects) which varies as a function of Focal Length and F-Number a great deal more in the LX5 than in the LX3 (even at less than 60mm Focal Length), and which (may) also vary in nature from unit to unit.
These characteristics were predicted by me to present a problem in the effective implementation of DxO Optics Pro's "Lens Softness" optical lens-blur corrections in the case of the LX5, and it now appears (from my present actual use in processing LX5 RW2s using DxO) that such issues have, in fact, reduced that effectiveness in the case of the LX5 (as compared to in the case of the LX3). See:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1033&message=37605082
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I (initially) found the
LX3 "Joy-Stick" to be highly prone to unintended "switch-bounce", launching the selection far past the desired destination as a result. I have since learned to approach the control more carefully, and can navigate the "Quick-Menu" pretty effectively without inducing unintended "switch-bounce" anymore.
However, I (still) find the integration of the Joy-Stick" with the LX3's Manual Focus mode functions to be ridiculously confusing as well as quite "tweaky".
(Thankfully, I suppose), rather spoiled by the FZ30 and FZ50's manually-adjustable Focus and Zoom rings, not taking well to the seemingly limited number of discrete steps available in the LX3 Manual Focus adjustment, not taking well to the fact that focus at "infinity" exists somewhere around 16 "steps" back from the adjustment-range maximum, and not being able to assess focus easily on the LCD display in outdoor lighting, I have pretty much ignored the Manual Focus mode on the LX3, rarely using it in my typical hand-held (or mono-pod stabilized) shooting style.
