gjoliver wrote:
This guy gave the exact explanation here at 3:18s:
Basically, the reason to have a sensor larger than the IC is so you can have smaller lens, plus the same number of pixels for different aspect ratios.
Thanks. His drawing cleared it up. It seems like a lot of trouble to get a few more MP in 3:2 and 16:9, but I guess that's one of the reasons for the asking price. It does look like a sweet fixed lens compact.
The marketing language choices, though, are garbage.
freaklikeme wrote:
Thanks. His drawing cleared it up. It seems like a lot of trouble to get a few more MP in 3:2 and 16:9, but I guess that's one of the reasons for the asking price. It does look like a sweet fixed lens compact.
The marketing language choices, though, are garbage.
it seems to have a similar size as S9.
I don't get why we should go for a fixed lens and micro 4/3 sensor in that case actually.
Yes, but Panasonic killed the smaller m43 GM/GX line already... I was shaking my head when I compare the smaller GM1/GM5 or GX85/GX9 (with IBIS) compared to newer bodies... L10 is using S9 body that is also similar to X100VI, bigger than RX1R III... Panasonic is recycling the m43 in FF S bodies to save production costs maybe, hence the 50% size/weight increase while loosing the advantage of smaller m43 potential... It is in 43rumors every couple days as how to save m43...
"Micro four thirds cameras are being held back, Lumix and OM-System are favoring the larger bodies with flagship features, without updating the smaller, everyday cameras like the Lumix GM1, Lumix GX80 and Olympus PEN F. In this video, we’re deciding what would make a great new everyday micro four thirds camera in 2026."
gjoliver wrote:
interchangeable lenses plus the viewfinder would be pretty cool.
but then, it's still micro4/3 and no ibis.
serhan_ wrote:
New sensor has phase detection, so it should be good for tracking... Big question is how the lens will perform on the higher MP sensor esp at the wide end...
If you watch the review I just posted, their complaint is the AF tracking is very poor.
Image quality looks to be very good.
Good to know, I will watch it fully later, but I didn't see their usual center/edge sharpness test to confirm the lens IQ... The lens is softer at the wide end edges on the previous cameras, most probably due to 12.4% distortion correction...
Desmolicious wrote:
If you watch the review I just posted, their complaint is the AF tracking is very poor.
Image quality looks to be very good.
The problem I have with this camera is I then start to think of the options for this kind of thing. This camera is $1500-ish with the zoom lens and M43 20mp sensor.
A Fuji XM5 with kit zoom is less than $1000 and has the larger sensor. It does not have an EVF for sure.
But I really dislike powered zoom lenses - it gives cameras such a p&s feel - whereas a camera like the Fuji -as it has interchangeable lenses - has manual/mechanical zoom.
Is the EVF on the Lumix worth an extra $500?
For me, the big problem of that camera line is/was always that power zoom. In general I find them annoying to use, but in this particular case it’s even worse being a very slow unit (I briefly had the LX100, sold it because of that). As petapixel reported, the lens motor of this new model it’s still slow to startup and to go trough the various focal lengths. And of course there’s also the concerns on reliability with the potential problems of dust sucking and being a common break point.
It’s a shame, Panasonic did a great job refining lots of stuff on the L10, too bad they didn’t give it a manual zoom.
I know this is just a rehash of the LX100 engineering but....
28-105 equivalent manual zoom on this would have been pretty dreamy. The aperture ring is just less important on m43 at 2.2 crop or whatever it is on this crop-of-a-crop design. Just keep the shutter speed dial, direct shutter priority control and nix the lens ring.
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