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December 2011
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144 Reviews
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30 Reviews
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The editors liked
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.
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
Relatively compact
Lots of features
Good image quality and performance
Excellent high ISO performance
Superb build quality
Customisable controls
Great build quality
Good range of customisable features
Effective Creative Controls
Fast AF system
Decent image quality and overall low light performance
The editors didn't like
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
The new X-series PZ kit lens could use some design tweaks
Compact and easy to handle, Most settings quickly accessible, some customizable, Quick autofocus, good image quality up until ISO 6400,
Manual focus not much fun, Touchscreen seems slightly vestigial, Thumb dial could be a lot meatier
The GX1 is a powerful camera, but I sense that it still has one foot in the half-point-and-shoot territory of the GF3. This clearly wants to be a photographer’s camera; it’s not easy enough to use to be anything else. So why so many auto and art modes?...
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.
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, No articulated screen or built-in IS.
The Panasonic Lumix GX1 is a compelling compact system camera for enthusiasts who demand decent quality and control from a small body. Highlights include solid build, responsive focus, mature touch-screen operation backed-up with lots of physical cont...
Published: 2012-01-26, Author: Mario , review by: gizmodo.com
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
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
Yes, if you want a smaller camera that handles like a DSLR and takes awesome photos for less than $1000. This camera is far more expandable than some of its competitors, and despite the G3s large body, Panasonic G System lenses arent as bulky as those o...
Good images and color, Quick shutter and AF, Selection of manual controls for enthusiasts
No builtin EVF, Pricey, Some rolling shutter in video
When it was introduced back in 2009, Panasonic's GF1 created quite a fuss at least in part because it was one of the first mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras to reach market. But beyond that the GF1 generally garnered very positive reviews for its i...
Published: 2012-01-19, Author: Philip , review by: popphoto.com
If you're looking for a rangefinder-style ILC, the Lumix GX1 is an excellent choice. It easily outresolves Olympus's Pen E-P3, and serves up more accurate colors. Novice RAW shooters might prefer the noise-reduction guidance Olympus provides with its defa...
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 is the natural successor to the popular GF1, taking many of its design cues from that two-year-old camera whilst incorporating virtually all of the recent advances that Panasonic have made in their other G/GF-series cameras...
Great build quality, intuitive layout, superfast autofocus, hotshoe, good balance of system size to image quality
Expensive, power zoom lens zooms too slowly, movie mode outclassed by competition, battery life could be better
The GX1 is an accomplished camera that'll be well suited to more demanding photographers. Compared to its Compact System Camera competitors Panasonic's latest has a fine balance of physical system size to image quality ratio. The huge array Micro Four ...
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Published: 2011-11-30, Author: Lori , review by: cnet.com
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.
Abstract: Panasonic Lumix's new DMC-GX1 bears more than a simple resemblance to the old GF1 Expected pricing: Bundle with G Vario 14-42mm kit lens £599 (available mid-December). With X-series power zoom lens £729. LVF2 electronic viewfinder - £229. There is no...
