Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 - UK Digital Camera Review

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 Review

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 has 8.4 megapixel 16:9 CCD (with 28mm wide angle), 4x optical and digital zoom with Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens ensuring superb picture quality.

This compact camera is fully manual and incorporates MEGA O.I.S. Focus choices are auto focus system, normal/macro, continuous AF: on/off, manual focus with a focusing area between normal, wide (50cm) and tele (120cm - infinity).

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 Front
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 Back

As well as being manual the Lumix DMC-LX1 offers a selection of scene modes including; night, baby, fireworks, portrait, snow and soft skin with a self timer speed of 10sec/2 sec. Languages available are English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

The Panasonic DMC-LX1 has ISO sensitivity to auto/80/100/200/400 and choices of white balance, auto, cloudy, halogen, daylight and white set.

Colour modes offer cool, black and white, sepia and warm and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 has a built in flash which can be used in auto, auto with red-eye reduction, slow sync with red-eye reduction and forced on/off.

Images can be viewed on the 2.5" LCD display which has approximately 100% viewing and can be played back in various styles such as 25/16/9 thumbnail, rotation and slide show. They are stored on SD Memory Card, MultiMedia Card.

The Lumix DMC-LX1 is powered by a Li-ion battery pack which gives 240 pictures (CIPA) and is PictBridge compatible.

Videos can be taken in 30 or 10fps with recording time dependent upon the size of the memory card.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 Specifications & Features

  • 8.4 Megapixels
  • 4 x Optical Zoom
  • 50cm Focusing Distance
  • Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Halogen and White Set White Balance settings
  • 2.5" TFT, 207,000 pixels
  • Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Slow Sync/Red-eye Reduction and Forced On/Off flash modes
  • Maximum Image Size 3840 x 2160 Pixels
  • 848 x 480, 30fps Movies
  • PictBridge Compatible
  • SD Memory Card, MultiMedia Card
  • Li-ion Battery
  • Approximate Weight 185g

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 User Reviews

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Reviewer: EJ - UK
This is a great looking camera and so easy to carry around. My parents bought me this one because I had got to the stage where I needed a bit of a challenge and they thought that being fully manual I would need to use my imagination. The lens are great and I am enjoying using my LX1 - is there no end to my creativity! Seriously, this is a great camera to have, battery life is good, pictures are quality and as well as being manual it also offers scene modes.

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Rating 10/10
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Rating 10/10
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Rating 10/10
Reviewer: Les - UK
I have been very pleased with this camera because it not only gives me the flexibility of selecting my own settings, it also has screen modes for when I am feeling lazy. It also has a good size LCD, excellent lens and you end up with quality photographs.

Would recommend

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Rating 9/10
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Rating 9/10
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Rating 10/10
Reviewer: Dick Brown - UK
Not cheap, but worth paying for because of the manual control.

Good stabilisation, quality images, looks and feels good.

Worth buying

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Rating 8/10
Image Quality
Rating 10/10
Usability
Rating 8/10
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