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RAW compared to RX100, LX7, and GM1....GM1 probably tops followed by LX100 at low ISO. Thoughts?
 
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From a quick play just now, raw and JPEG upto ISO1600, it looks pretty good.

As you go up the ISO scale it certainly performs better than the smaller sensor cameras some of us may be trading up from (eg Fuji X20, Lumix LX7) and in overall terms it performs very closely to the GM1.

JPEGs look slightly more cooked (not sure that is a good thing) and there is a little more moire than on the GM1 so a weaker AA filter perhaps? Extreme corners aren't quite so impressive but still outperform the smaller sensor cameras, and in reality that is highly unlikely to be an issue for me.
 
JPEG's probably need some tweaking but the RAW looks good. Some corners look a little better on the LX7 but others not. All corners look better than the RX100. I was surprised the corners are close to the GM1 with a prime lens and at 1600-3200 look less crunchy than the Oly OMD-10 JPEG's. Overall it looks more promising than the sample images which means it is quite capable in the right hands.
 
Wow, looks great - Panasonic have done a hell of a job with that lens.

To me, it looks sharper than Canon G7X and Sony RX100MIII with at least 1 stop less noise. Detail is obviously not as good because of the lower resolution sensor (eg, more moire visible).

Sharp lens, capable sensor, adequate zoom range, 4K video, manual controls...

Why are the colours so muted? Is this just a difference of RAW processing? It's the same sensor as the GX7, right?
 
Lots of colors showing up again, just like in some of the other charts, for G7X and LX100.

LX100: Blacks are almost all blues in the top, left corner for ISO100 and RAW. GX7: Blacks are purple.

LX100: Major rainbow of colors in the trumpet, multiple lines thing to the left of center, again.

Yikes!

Could this be aliasing, as one commenter suggested?

The bigger the pixels the more aliasing filters are needed, many have said.

I wonder why the top two are 88mm and 70mm, and the bottom two are 55mm and 50mm.
 
Hi Morg

If you look at the colour swatches then you can see than the lumonosity is lower but the saturation is higher , hence it can be interpreted as Muted

They get nice and subtle from raw

I think saturation needs to be lowered in the jpeg engine, while contrast and sharpness need to be raised.

For a pocket camera, I do not see myself wanting to adjust each frame from RAW, I want good OOC, me being spoiled with an Olympus DSLR today.

However for sunsets and portraits it is good to know there is as expected some nuance to be reeled in via raw.
 
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