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December 2011
(81%)
144 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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30 Reviews
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The editors liked
Compact and easy to handle
Most settings quickly accessible
Some customizable
Quick autofocus
Good image quality up until ISO 6400
Return to GF1 design is more appealing
Larger grip is better for medium-size hands
Built-in pop-up flash
Flash hotshoe
Video record button on the top deck for more natural access
GX1 uses wide metal lugs for straps
Which are quieter for video
Re...
Compact size. Fast continuous shooting. Hot shoe and accessory port. Built-in flash.
Panasonic's micro four thirds predecessors
The camera takes very nice photos in daylight
And the improved sensor resolution only makes daylight shooting easy. What really sets this camera apart
As I mentioned before
Is how easy it is to use. Any setti
Good images and color
Quick shutter and AF
Selection of manual controls for enthusiasts
High-quality 16-megapixel stills and Full HD AVCHD movies
Extensive photo tweaks
Solid build with quality 3-inch touchscreen LCD
Fast performance and excellent raw photo quality
Combined with Panasonic's veteran touch-screen/direct-control hybrid interface
Make the Lumix DMC-GX1 a strong ILC choice
Zoom and manualfocus levers ingeniously placed right on the lens barrel. Love the barelythere dimensions — and price!
Full-size hot shoeRetro
GF1-like designVery good image qualityFast and accurate focus and exposure
Highest resolution Micro Four Thirds sensor
Very good quality JPEG high ISO images
Improved white balance and skin tone rendering (compared to GF1)
Fast AF acquisition (particularly impressive in low light)
Shooting is possible while the buffer's data is being written to the card
Well-implemented touchscreen interface
Extensive manual control points including a mode dial and four Fn butto
Compact but solid build with lots of manual controls
Comparable quality to DSLR
But may need to tweak defaults
Snappy and responsive AF
And touch-AF for stills and movies
Continuous movie AF and long recording times outside Europe.
Great build quality
Intuitive layout
Superfast autofocus
Hotshoe
Good balance of system size to image quality
The editors didn't like
Manual focus not much fun
Touchscreen seems slightly vestigial
Thumb dial could be a lot meatier
Would be nice to have two dials
One for aperture
One for shutter
Rear buttons might be small for some users
LCD doesn't tilt
Blur issue with X lens at telephoto and certain shutter speeds
Mediocre macro performance
Below average hue accuracy
Or...
Large
Soft kit lens. Fixed rear LCD. Poor high ISO performance. Pricey
Like all micro four thirds cameras
The GX1's image quality gets noticeably noisy above ISO 800
And in some low-light situations
Photos shot above ISO 400 show some noise when you blow them up to 100 percent. The camera could use a faster processor to b
No builtin EVF
Pricey
Some rolling shutter in video
Just too expensive
Weird button arrangements
Noisy at high ISOs
Touchscreen should be more sensitive
The new X-series PZ kit lens could use some design tweaks
And Panasonic's JPEG processing
Though much better than before
Could still use a little work
Zoom on the included 1442mm lens is twitchy and imprecise in video mode. Autofocus struggles in low light
Pricey when paired with 14-42mm X lensPoor built-in flash performance
Conservative metering tends towards underexposure
Fastest continuous shooting modes come at the expense of live view
20fps SH mode yields poor image quality
Limited manual exposure controls for video recording
Continuous tracking performance suffers in low-light
Low contrast scenarios
Minimal effect of in-camera dynamic range settings
Live view and AF not available in bursts above 3fps
No 1080p AVCHD
No manual movie exposures and no mic input
Easy to accidentally set a manual AF area with touch-screen
Abstract: Before I begin my report on the new Panasonic GX1, please allow me a brief digression. We now have the Canon 1DX, Samsung NX200, Fujifilm X-10, Ricoh GXR, Casio EX15, Olympus XZ1, Sigma DP2X, Sony HX9V – and that's with just one model from each com...
Abstract: The Panasonic LUMIX GX1 Micro-4/3rd camera accepts both LUMIX G and Leica DG lenses. The 16 MP Live MOS sensor incorporates an advanced noise reduction system for exposures up to ISO 12,800 with a 144 zone multi-pattern meter. TIPA members were impres...
Abstract: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1Hands-on Preview November 2011 | Amadou Diallo Panasonic's Lumix DMC-GX1 is the company's latest addition to its G-series lineup. And although the camera bears the '1' appendage in its model name, it is clear from even a cursory...
Highest resolution Micro Four Thirds sensor, Very good quality JPEG high ISO images, Improved white balance and skin tone rendering (compared to GF1), Fast AF acquisition (particularly impressive in low light), Shooting is possible while the buffer's data is being written to the card, Well-implemented touchscreen interface, Extensive manual control points including a mode dial and four Fn butto
Conservative metering tends towards underexposure, Fastest continuous shooting modes come at the expense of live view, 20fps SH mode yields poor image quality, Limited manual exposure controls for video recording, Continuous tracking performance suffers in low-light, low contrast scenarios, Minimal effect of in-camera dynamic range settings,
The GX1 is an extremely satisfying camera to use. Extensive, and generally well-positioned external control points are coupled with the latest iteration of Panasonic's highly regarded touchscreen interface. We struggle to think of a camera in this cla...
Abstract: If you've been following the development of the compact system cameras (CSCs), you'll remember that right at the beginning there was a fair amount of confusion about exactly who was the target audience. The basic idea seemed to be that the potential buyer...
Screen could be better; no in-body image stabilisation, $1199 (14-42mm lens); $1599 (12-35mm lens)
A beautiful camera that delivers on many of the promises the Compact System Camera category offers. With a better screen and improved UI design, it would be tough to beat.Related Tags: camera, compact, DMC-GX1, macworld, macworld australia, panasonic,...
Abstract: Panasonic's DMC-GX1 arrived the day after I'd watched a doco on mid-20th century street photographers. Do you reckon I wanted to hit the street with a compact, unobtrusive camera that could handle an unpredictable range of subjects, or what?Picking the GX...
Relatively compact, Lots of features, Good image quality and performance, Excellent high ISO performance
Power Zoom lens isn't comfortable to use, No built-in EVF
The LUMIX GX1 incorporates manual features, a touchscreen and a high level of performance in a camera body that is compact and comfortable to hold. It produced excellent results in our tests, in the ISO testing in particular, and it's a good all-round cam...
This is a superb camera. Its only competition is the Olympus E-P3. The Olympus has a 12-megapixel sensor but in side-by-side pixel peeping we could not see any significant difference in output. As they cost about the same, the choice might come down to a...
Published: 2012-01-26, Author: terry , review by: dpexpert.com.au
The more we use the Panasonic touch screen system the more we like it. The ultrafast auto focus means that a light touch on the subject area on the screen takes a perfectly focused and exposed picture every time.
We wouldn't buy this camera/lens combination because the power zoom is like a throwback to compact systems. For anyone primarily intending to take stills the conventional — and cheaper — kit zoom is the way to go for quick, precise changes of focal length
This is a superb camera. Its only competition is the Olympus E-P3. The GX1 is a whisker smaller than the E-P3, but not so you would notice. The Olympus has a 12mp sensor but in side-by-side pixel peeping we could not see any significant difference in outp...
