Panasonic look set to release another top notch compact into the wild, as they accidentally set a support page live for an upcoming, (as yet unannounced) high end digital compact camera, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5K.
The Panasonic LX5K is expected to be announced later this week. It’s packed with the usual Panasonic features, with adjustable aperture, program, and shutter settings, plus the standard bunch of scenery settings for beaches and the like.
The trusty Leica lens is now upgraded from the LX3, to a slightly better 3.8x Leica DC Vario-Summicron lens, which has an additional digital zoom of 4x. The lens gives a 35mm equivalent of 24-90mm. It’s still the zoom of a compact, and being as it is, between the LX3 and the super-zoom-packing TZ range not so far apart, this might be difficult to price.
A big plus will be the option to switch between an optical or electronic viewfinder, something missing on the majority of compact and bridge cameras. The Panasonic LX5K battery is meant to last for 400 shots, but we’ll be putting that through its paces when we get our hands on one.
The Panasonic LX5K looks to be another neat, high performance compact, but how crucial is the price?
