Lumix LX3 Review: High End Digital Compact Camera (pt. 3)

Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 February 2009 at 11:10 am | Tagged as: Photography, Reviews Part one of the Lumix LX3 review gave you the tech specs, part two got into the meat, this final part wraps it up with more detail, provides the summary and scores.Flash Activated via a small switch on the top plate and standing taller than some of its rivals, the LX3’s small built-in flash offers Auto, Auto with red-eye reduction, Forced on and Slow sync with red-eye reduction in auto mode. Flash compens

Lumix LX3 Review: High End Digital Compact Camera (pt. 3)

Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 February 2009 at 11:10 am | Tagged as: Photography, Reviews Part one of the Lumix LX3 review gave you the tech specs, part two got into the meat, this final part wraps it up with more detail, provides the summary and scores.Flash Activated via a small switch on the top plate and standing taller than some of its rivals, the LX3’s small built-in flash offers Auto, Auto with red-eye reduction, Forced on and Slow sync with red-eye reduction in auto mode. Flash compens

Lumix LX3 Review: High End Digital Compact Camera (pt. 2)

Posted by Mike Slocombe on 16 February 2009 at 10:00 am | Tagged as: Photography, Reviews Part one of the Lumix LX3 review gave you the tech specs, part two gets into the meat.Look and feel We spent an age weighing up the pros and cons of various high end compacts, finally identifying the LX3’s biggest rival as the hugely capable Canon G10.In the end, the size advantage of the LX3 proved too compelling, with the Lumix measuring 109 x 60 x 27mm compared to the G10s pocket-busting 109 x 78 x 46

Panasonic Lumix LX3 Digital High End Compact Camera Review

Posted by Mike Slocombe on 5 February 2009 at 1:11 pm | Tagged as: Photography, Reviews Panasonic’s flagship digital compact for mustard-keen photographers and compulsive shutter clickers, the Lumix DMC-LX3 offers up a tempting package with an 10.1 Megapixel resolution sensor, flash hotshoe, full auto and manual controls and an optically stabilised, bright 2.5x optical wide angle zoom with the delicious LEICA name. The LX3 improves on its predecessor by extending the focal coverage to an impre

Manhattan Wired Store Gadget Feast Review

Posted by Mike Slocombe on 23 January 2009 at 1:40 pm | Tagged as: Gadgets, Platforms, Business, Mobile, Cellular, Reviews For computer nerds and technology freaks in New York, the place to be around Christmas was the excellent Wired Store in midtown Manhattan, which veritably bristled with the latest gadgets, gizmos and must-have widgets. Now in its fourth year (we checked it out last year too), the store had moved from its downtown location to the Flatiron district, at 15W 18th St, and

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