Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 Review: More of a Good Thing Discussion

[Jim Keenan]

Announced in November and scheduled to appear in the US market in mid-December of last year, the Panasonic Lumix GX1 is the latest mirrorless interchangeable lens addition to the Panasonic G series of digital cameras. While the "GX" designation is a new addition to the line whose models include "G", "GF" and "GH" prefixes, Panasonic's press release "...expects the camera to please photo enthusiasts who have been eager for a technology upgrade comparable to the LUMIX DMC-GF1..." a camera to which the GX1 bears a strong family resemblance.

More than just a follow-on to the GF1, Panasonic is also market segmenting their mirrorless offerings by describing the GX series as the new premium line of their compact system cameras.

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[KCook]

Kinda wild that the camera has iA, and 17 preset scenes, and 4 custom setups! That is more custom setups than I get on my Canon 50D. The GX1 sounds like a propeller head would be right at home?

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[Caleb Murdock]

This picture is absolutely horrid:

Picture of Olympus 12-50mm Power Zoom Sample Image

It has bad smearing of detail, and it is severely over-sharpened. The white line between the water and the sky is actually a very wide sharpening halo, and some areas of the picture look almost posterized. In fact, there are obvious halos throughout the image. How did such a bad picture make it into a review? (Other pictures in the review, though not all of them, look substantially better.) Is that how the picture came out of the camera, or was the picture post-processed?

[KCook]

Yup, definitely heavy handed on the sharpening. Maybe that is part of Panny's Landscape mode???