The Lumix DMC-LX7 is Panasonic's flagship compact camera, and the long-awaited follow-up to the popular DMC-LX5. At first glance, it's hard to tell the two apart, but look closer and you'll see some pretty big changes. The DMC-LX7 is a mid-sized camera made mostly of metal.
Excellent photo quality; with less noise than typical compact cameras; Super fast F1.4-2.3; 3.8X optical zoom Leica lens gives excellent sharpness; and versatility in low light; Multi-aspect sensor keeps pixel count high in different aspect ratio modes; 3-inch LCD with 920,000 dots; very good
Aperture ring cannot be customised, unlike similar controls on competitive cameras, Redeye a problem; no removal tool in playback mode, Takes a long time (30+ seconds) for camera to flush the buffer after a burst containing RAW images is taken, Vertical stripes in panoramic images, Very slow lens