Anyone out there looking for a P&S camera that is half-decent at low-light photography?

Anyone out there sick and tired of P&S cameras cramming more and more megapixels into their tiny little sensor?

Anyone out there wish they could just throw their P&S in aperture priority or full manual mode?

Panasonic heard “our” cries and gave us the LX3. I believe I blogged about it a while ago when it was announced; indeed it had some exciting specs: A 24mm equivalent wide zoom end, an f/2.0-2.8 aperture, optical stabilization, full manual control and un-restricted RAW shooting, and then last but not least, they STOPPED at 10 megapixels, unlike Canon and Nikon’s latest 14 megapixel P&S cameras…

Well, the test results are in; the LX3 slaughtered the G10 and the P6000…

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicdmclx3/page13.asp

Way to go, Panasonic! I’ll be seriously considering the LX3 as a pocket camera. Although ironically the Panasonic G1 ALSO looks very, very tempting as a “pocket-able” camera, and I cant wait to see the full effect of Olympus’ new “P&SLR” system.

Nikon and Canon’s only hope at competing is to maybe get into the Sigma DP1 / DP2 market, making a P&S camera with a DSLR (crop) sensor…

=Matt=