Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 - Test Shots

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Review Price £345.74

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 - Test Shots - ISO Performance

Over the next few pages we show a range of test shots. On this page the full size image at the minimum and maximum ISO settings have been reduced to let you see the full image, and a series of full resolution crops have taken from original images at a range of ISO settings to show the overall image quality. These pictures were taken indoors using reflected natural light.

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This is the full frame at minimum ISO setting.

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At 80 ISO the image quality is pretty much flawless, as was expected.

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No significant difference at 100 ISO.

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Surprisingly aAt 200 ISO there is already a slight blotchiness in the red areas.

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At 400 ISO the detail is still very good, but there are visible noise artefacts.

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Image quality drops off sharply at 800 ISO, with lots of noise and lost detail.

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Image quality continues to get worse at 1600 ISO.

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3200 ISO is the highest full-resolution setting, but the results are pretty terrible.

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6400 ISO is available at 3MP resolution.

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So is 12800 ISO, but the quality is awful.

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This is the full frame at 12800 ISO.

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