Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7

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Panasonic today announced a new premium digital compact camera, the 10.1 megapixel LUMIX DMC-LX7. It features 24mm Ultra-wide angle lens with a 3.8x optical zoom and an aperture of f/1.4 -f/2.3.

"The Panasonic LUMIX LX-Series cameras have been extremely popular with both professional and enthusiast photographers, who understand the value and superb image quality offered by these compact and affordable digital cameras."

The camera can also record full HD video up to 1080 60p in AVCHD format.

The LX7 will be available in September. Pricing will be announced at a later date

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[bohnstube]

Hopefully Panasonic's managed to improve sensor tech to a point that making the switch to cheaper MOS sensors from CCD is not going to result in overall loss of image quality that would've resulted say, only 2-3 years ago, to gain improved low-light & fps capability advantages. Also, they've noticeably "dumbed down" their μ4/3 line of ILC's lately to keep prices competitive, so shoving big sensors into p&s camera bodies to raise the price wouldn't have made sense for their other price points.

[oliberrr]

I do not understand the benefit of having a smaller sensor. I have read that LX7 is using "next gen" CMOS sensor so this one being smaller than LX5 sensor should not cause any worry.

Can anyone confirm that? I am not really good with camera techincalities / jargons.

[PYoung]

can you shoot and record at the same time with this camera?

[Daniel]

Will it be worth switching from LX5 to LX7?