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December 2011
(81%)
144 Reviews
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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: Read later Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1. This is the top Panasonic micro four thirds compact system camera that does not have an integrated electronic viewfinder. The high-resolution VFL-2 viewfinder is sold separately. It is built around the company's 1...
Published: 2011-12-07, Author: Lori , review by: cnet.com.au
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
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
A well-designed camera with an interface that creative photographers can customize to their liking, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 deserves serious consideration if you're looking for a modestly compact interchangeable-lens model....
Great build quality, Good range of customisable features, Effective Creative Controls, Fast AF system, Decent image quality and overall low light performance
Touchscreen could be more responsive, Several of the controls may prove fiddly for some, No builtin viewfinder, LCD is fixed rather than articulated
With a good range of buying options available; comprising a starting price of £499 or US$699 (body-only), £599 (with 14-42mm manually-operated kit lens), £729.99 (with 14-42mm powered kit lens) and £757.99 (Panasonic Online Shop price), the feature-packed...
Abstract: The Lumix DMC-GX1 with the optional DMW-LVF2 Live View Finder attached. (Source: Panasonic.) A hot shoe on the top panel lets users add the optional DMW-LVF2 Live View Finder or an accessory flashgun. And the GX1 is compatible with the latest power zoom X...
Abstract: Left of the hot-shoe is a pop-up flash, which springs forward and has a GN of 7.6 (metres/ISO 160). Eight flash modes are supported: Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Forced On/Red-eye Reduction, Slow Sync., Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction and Forced ...
There's little to make the Panasonic DMC-GX1 not desirable for use at the end of this article. That is why we recommend it to anyone desperate for a new camera....
If you loved the GF1, the GX1 could be exactly the camera you’ve been waiting for. Its superb build quality and ergonomics are matched with speedy performance and excellent image quality. It’s a little unnecessarily complicated to use and could do wit...
Touch screen control and physical buttons provide best-of-both-worlds operation; quick response times; reliable performer; solid construction yet lightweight and portable
No electronic viewfinder that enthusiasts have come to expect; rear LCD not angle adjustable; no image stabilisation system built into the body (via lens only)
Images are sharp and colourful if still no match for a larger DSLR. However the GX1 is much more portable and most hobbyists will view it as ‘good enough'
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 ...
