Photographer's Guide to the Panasonic Lumix LX3

Book excerpt: Photographer's Guide to the Panasonic Lumix LX3: Getting the Most from Panasonic's Versatile Digital Camera is a follow-up to the author's well-received guide to a very similar camera, the Leica D-Lux 4. This new guidebook covers all features and operations of the LX3, one of the most highly esteemed compact digital cameras of recent years. In 232 pages, with numerous color photographs and illustrations, the book explains in plain language how to achieve the best possible results taking pictures with the automatic or manual controls of the LX3. Although much of the information in this book is similar to that in the earlier book about the Leica D-Lux 4 camera, this new volume is updated to include several new features that were added to both cameras when their internal firmware (operating system) was upgraded to version 2.0. These new features include white balance bracketing, 1:1 aspect ratio, lens resume, and several others. Therefore, the book will be useful to users of the latest versions of both the Panasonic Lumix LX3 and the Leica D-Lux 4.