New compact SLR
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Well david!!
Ive researched both in depth and ive found that the video quality of the LX3 to be very disappointing. Vital stats! -LX3 -1280x720, 24fps
G11 - 640x480 at 30 fps, H.264 codec, 10Mbps bitrateSure the LX3 is HD video, but its jerky and not very pleasant to watch. The video on the G11 looks very smooth and very high quality, even when upscaled. dont be let the pixels put you off of the G11 video, it has a great H.264 codec and the main reason i think it looks better than the HD Lx3 footage is because its super high quality 10Mbps bitrate!
Sample videos found here -
LX3 - http://www.photographyblog.com/r…
G11 - http://www.photographyblog.com/r…Judge for yourself, but to me the G11 looks so much smoother/
So what the LX3 remains to have over the G11 is the wide angle lens. I dont think its all that great, put next to the G11 you take 2 steps back with the G11 and you have the amount of view as the wide angle.
The zoom on the LX3 is almost pointless, 2.5 optical. where as the G11 has 5xoptical zoom.
Then onto image quality, the G11 surpasses the LX3 very easily - http://www.ephotozine.com/articl…
the G11 suffers less noise by a large amount. So the only thing the LX3 has on the G11 to me, is the size. Also i found the joystick on the LX3 horrible to use.
Thanks for letting me know though dude, appreciate the info!