OPINIONS WANTED: V-Lux 1

[Tenor1]

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Please share your opinions on this model. An earlier thread mentioned possible issues with firmware and now I'm concerned. I just bought one but have the option to exchange for something else. This is an addition and upgrade to my D-Lux 2.

 

I recently joined our local camera club and learning about photography-art and Elements 4. My camera use is totally recreational shooting a lot of aquariums in my home and at friends, general home and landscape use and portraits of our hospital volunteers at luncheons.

 

All the problems with the M-8 has me concerned with "Leica." Please share recommendations with other cameras that would be a good for "all around" use.

 

Thanks,

Carlos Marques

[MJLogan]

As the V-LUX is a rebadged PanasonicFZ-50 with slightly more subtle noise reduction, you needn't be concerned about its Leica heritage. The FZ-50 has been around long enough fo its strengths and weaknessed to be well-known, and for the Leica firmware to mitigate the largest weaknesses a bit. Spend some time on the Panasonic forum at dpreview.com and you'll get the full range of opinion on the FZ-50.

 

One thing that's not in dispute: the V-LUX-1/FZ-50 has a better lens than any of its compact superzoom competition. That's the Leica heritage.

[Tenor1]

Thanks for that reassurance and I'll check that other forum.

[phlogiston1]

Also look on the Leica Talk forum at DPR there are several posts with images taken with the V1. I hope to have mine next week and I'll report back when I work with it for a while.