S90 or LX3
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- insomnie
I've owned LX3 for about a week until I had to ship it back because of a broken zoom toggle. (Manufacturers fault). Now the new Canon S90 is available, and I can't make up my mind.
Pros, cons?
- Ruffian0
GF1?
- whereRI0
lx3 ! i bought one its the shit.
i chose it over the s90 cause of the hd video and the lens
- insomnie0
I'm looking in the 400 - 500 price range.
- Ruffian0
I'd still go with the LX3 if it's just between these two.
- ribit0
I just got an S90.. liking it a lot. Isn't the LX3 zoom range limited compared to S90?
- whereRI0
zoom rang isnt so good on lx3, true, but i was after its awesome wide angle
- whereRI0
dunno if video is important to you but the hd video from lx3 comes out at 720p 24fps, photo jpg compression, so its not bad at all, it even works well with tracking programmes like syntheyes
- nocomply0
I want the s90 so bad! I usually don't get this way about commercial products but man it looks awesome!
I'm sure the LX3 is equally good. I've done a little comparing of the two on my own and personally I think the details are not quite so important. The main difference between the two that would influence my choice is the zoom range. Well, that and the fact that I'm a bit of a canon nerd for really no great reason.
- Note: I am not a video guy, so the HD video doesn't sway me.nocomply
- ethanfink0
no hd on the s90... that would make it a perfect camera.
- Ruffian0
HD video or zoom range. Your choice.
- ok_not_ok0
next.
- in what cereal box can i find that toy?!?! :-Dakrokdesign
- Laurent0
S90 for sure.....
But of course Leica is great too but SO EXPENSIVE....so to answer your question....S90!
- insomnie0
Thank you for everyone's response. I will try to hit up BnH tomorrow and look at s90
- BuddhaHat0
There's a good review of the s90 at TheRegister
- akrokdesign0
i am looking at the s90, also. my sony m1, broke. :-(
- Atkinson0
anyone know a cheap s90 place in the uk / online?
- Ruffian0
LX5
- d_rek0
I have an s90. Fantastic point-and-shoot. No complaints whatsoever.
- Hombre_Lobo0
both great cams, I personally would go for the the S90, I do like panasonic though, my gf1 has been great.
S90
better zoom range
slightly better high iso
VGA video - however! The video is very smooth and looks decent
Smallerlx3
- wide angle lens - having put the s90 and lx3 side by side I found if you take two steps back and crop the image you can get the same picture with the s90(the perspective is obviously very slightly different), So to me the wide angle is not a big deal.HD video - I find even though it's HD it looks choppy, and put next to the smooth s90 footage it doesn't look that much better
Limited zoom.
So between the 2 the s90 I'd go for. There isn't much between them though, both amazing little cams.
I think you should get the g11 though. Slightly larger, but it's a great cam, 5x optical zoom, articulating LCD, optical view finder and it had the best ergonomics of any camera i have ever held! It does have a slightly less maximum aperture I rhink though.
Hope that helps :)