this camera is the Lumix, LX100.
Before we get into this, this is the second last video I'm shooting in this
house in this room, I'm moving to a new apartment where I'm going to have a dedicated studio space.
So in two videos time at the beginning of June, you will see the first
video in there.
I'm very excited.
So just a bit of back story on the camera that I bought last year.
I bought a Fuji X 100 s for a little bit.
And then I also had a Sony's envy, one for a little bit.
At one point, I had them both at the same time.
I famously took this photo and yeah, I was trying to decide which
compact camera was going to keep.
I ultimately sold them both, but both the X 171 didn't really do
everything for me, and I found that kind of frustrating.
So the Fuji X 100 s had this fixed focal length but amazing
photography.
And it said V one was great for video.
Had stabilisation, had a zoom lens that performed pretty well, but I found it
just kind of economically not great for me, like my hands are quite big.
The 78 7 c I get along quite well, but that would be one just felt like I
might as well use my phone, but with those two cameras haven't been sold.
It was probably about nine months until I started looking again for something to take with me to a
couple of music festivals this year and also on holiday and any day trips where I don't want to
carry, you know, between £4000 worth of gear on
my shoulder.
So that's when I went looking for compact stew photography cameras.
There also hopefully have a bit of video, and I landed on the most surprising
camera I've ever come across that genuinely
outperforms some of the cameras I've owned in the past.
In surprising ways.
This camera is the lunatics, Alex 100.
There is a mark to, but this is just the 100.
Looking at this already, you might think it looks a little bit unusual for a Panasonic, and
that's part of the reason I bought it.
Also, you'll notice a bit of D I y on the bottom, and that is part of the reason why this camera was
so cheap.
I buy all my cameras from MPB dot com, not sponsored.
Please sponsor me.
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them in.
Not very good condition.
This actually came with a broken battery door.
I bought a replacement and tried disassembling the camera, but sadly, the latch to get this
battery door replaced.
I don't really trust myself to remove as much as I was having to remove, So I
ended up this building sort of a a
attached bit of metal that keeps everything screwed in in place.
So for now, this will work.
What are the specs of this camera?
So this tiny little compact camera is packing a micro four thirds centre in any of the
aspect ratio is that it offers.
It does not actually cover the full centre.
The aspect ratio, where it has the largest amount of centre coverage, is in four by three, and there
it gets you about 13 megapixels, which obviously it's not a lot of resolution,
and I've mainly been shooting in three by two, which I think comes to a about 11
megapixels.
I'll just double check.
And weirdly enough on this camera, they thought Aspect ratio is so important to people that we should put an
actual slider on top of lens to have three by 2 16 by 91 by one and four by
three.
I have pretty much only been using three by two and 16 by 93 by two.
For all of my sort of casual photography and then 16 by nine if I'm shooting a thumbnail, I
tend to always just shoot with aspect ratio of 16 by nine while I'm shooting my YouTube thumbnails.
So I have used it a little bit for that.
Alongside the photo capability in this camera.
It also has 10 80 p, up to 50 frames per second and four K at
25 p.
Now there's no stabilization in the camera to help with video
recording, which is a bit of a shame.
There is optical stabilization in Lens that I feel like you can
see in the photography, but I have a feeling it's actually disabled in the video
because even with some really steady moving handheld with
stabilization lens.
I couldn't get anything really that usable.
Yet I am going to be doing some more proper tests with this camera in terms of its video
capability, because there's definitely room there for some surprising results,
because the lens that we have on here is a 24 to
75 F, 1.7 to 2.8.
At the wide end of the 24 mil equivalent, you can get at 1.7 aperture.
I'll put all the equivalence up here, and then at the long end, it extends down to
2.8.
So photography wise, it's got respectable megapixels for a compact camera micro four thirds that
is now eight years old.
It came out in September of 2014.
I also previously owned the Panasonic G H five, and the only focus on that camera
was almost completely unusable.
Whereas the autofocus on this camera isn't snappy, it's not like the
best thing I've ever seen.
But it's not that far off of like a Sony a 63 100 which is pretty
good.
It's not like the most responsive, fast transitioning focus, but if you have on one spot,
focus and then move the focus point around while you're moving the camera around, it
will find focus quite quick.
Facial recognition seems to be okay from a couple of tests that I've done when comparing that to the G
H five, I could never get the G H five to find focus and whole focus for longer than like a
second or two.
Looking at the design of this camera, one of the things that really drew me to it was the mix of the aperture
ring, shutter, dial, exposure, compensation dial and PBF.
They've tried to create like a range finder style compact blue mix camera,
which to me is pretty cool.
And considering that I really wanted to try out the Fuji X 100 s a year ago, it's kind of not surprising to me that
this caught my eye and then also a massive benefit to this over something on the side view or
not, other compact cameras is the lens already has a philtre
threat.
A lot of compact cameras do not have a philtre thread because the design lens just doesn't really accommodate for
it, and you can sometimes get like adhesive attachments to essentially add like a philtre ring,
which isn't isn't super great.
But this actually does have a 43 male philtre threat, which I then just gotta step of
ring to 49 mil because that's the smallest philtre thread size that I have any usable
philtres for again, I will be doing some video test.
So if you do not want to miss that, subscribe to the channel and I'll be doing sort of comparison is probably between
this and the A seven s.
Three.
Just to see how much difference $200 and $4000
really makes, the EBS itself is decent.
It's quite a large display compared to the Sony A seven C, but it's not quite as sharp.
I mean, it is from 2014, but overall it's large and it's usable.
The first time I looked in it, I did think, How did they get any VF this size and the camera this
size when the agency is like, Why do we even bother putting the ZDF
in here?
It's just so so small.
It's like look down a tunnel to then see the VF, which just got a
bit strange.
The camera, however, is, sadly not touch screen, but I'm not surprised if it was touch screen
protest.
Quite a lot more.
I believe the Mark two is touch screen.
So if you're interested in this sort of camera interested in the design of it, interested in the features of it, and
you just wanted a bit spruced up, that is the next 100 mark to that might be worth looking at
if I have this camera for any significant period of time and I really like it, and I would
like a slight level, that version, I'd probably consider them are, too, because it will go down in price over
time.
It would be quite a good investment.
The lack of touch screen does mean that when you're moving around or focus points, you have to sort of set
up a custom buttons and move it around.
So I have my custom buttons set up to the function one at the bottom, right?
I just tap on that and I move around my single autofocus point, and a really good thing about this
single autofocus point on this is you can adjust the size like really quickly with the
wheel so you can press function.
One, move it around and at the same time is moving around.
You can just spin the wheel and then either shrink or enlarge that focus point
with the camera turned off and lens away.
I do think it's quite an attractive little camera, which I know shouldn't really be that important.
But it is a little bit, and then when you have the loans extended, it does become a bit
more of a classic compact camera.
I guess it's less nice to look at and again.
You use the zoom rocket to either retract or extend loans.
You can set up the zoom function in photo mode to automatically zoom between popular focal
lens.
So rather than having to, like, zoom and then try land on 50 mil or 35 mil or
70 mil Instead, you can just hit the rocker once, and it will advance to the next,
like sensible focal length.
So it starts 24 28 35 50
70 and then 75 and I tend to find myself mainly
between 28 50.
I did take a couple of shots yesterday, actually, at 17 75 and you forget how
useful that is in a pinch.
So and so far?
I mean, it's just been incredibly convenient to use.
I just want to talk a little bit about why a small camera feels
important when you're wanting to take photos more often.
It's definitely an excuse.
A lot of us used to try to be like, Oh, I can't go out and take photos all the time.
The only camera have is too big, which is like the most ridiculous First World problem you've ever heard
of.
My camera is too good and too big.
I can't take it out and like, be discreet and take photos.
But it does.
It does make a difference.
I think there's a certain level of like comfort, and it's not about anyone else's perception.
It's more about your own feeling, comfortable in taking photos out and about in the
world.
Since I have started taking a few more photos just out on my own, like going out with the
intention of just taking pics, I felt a little bit less self conscious anyway, I
tend to be using either this Alex 100 or my A seven c just on my Pete Design Wrist
strap.
Just have it by my side.
If I have headphones in or no headphones, just walk around casually, take
photos.
Just try not to single out anyone that I'm shooting and just try and be
like a tourist, essentially just trying to pay extra attention to my own
city, which at the moment is the city of Leeds.
I have been rambling about this camera for too long, so thank you very much for watching if you have watched this far
and comedian killed more videos, probably on this camera, like over the over the coming months.
And again, yes, I've got this video here, one more video next week,
which will also be in this room.
And then after that, we're in Manchester.
Once I'm set up in that new studio space, I'm hopefully gonna be putting out at least a video week, which I'm
already doing, but maybe two videos a week, and I've also got another channel, which I'll link
below my personal finance channel.
I want to try and have regular videos on there as well, because I'm doing them on Tiktok every single
day.
I would like to be doing them on YouTube a bit more as well.
Thank you very much for watching.
I will see you in the next one.