Lumix LX100II full review with photo and video 

I have owned mine for three years now. I love it more now than when I bought it. Your comments on the strengths and weaknesses are absolutely accurate. My only concern is that your stabilization doesn't sound like it's working for video.. It's my go to travel camera. I left my Fujifilm X-T3 at home on my last trip to pPrague. The 24-75mm zoom range is perfect for shooting in close environments.👍

So glad this camera is still getting love in 2023! I have the first version and it only shoots 12mp, but with a fullframe S5 that can shoot up to 96 MP, and a Fuji that shoots 26 MP, it's still really fun to get really sharp 12mp photos out of this little casual camera. Handling is extremely perfect too and even from 2014, the 4k video is 90% as sharp as my Fuji XT30's 4k. Amazing line of cameras Weird that your video is shaky. The first version has 2 stops of ois, and it's pretty useful for video

Wow, really well told story and thoughts about your experience with fantastic little camera. Well done! So enjoyable. 😊

You can try to use the vacuum cleaner to suction pump from the lens and hopefully the dust on the sensor can be removed. I have tried this on Nikon coolpix A and this method works…..

Damn i love the image quality, seems different and more cinematic than my sony rx 100 IV

I loved the v1 of this camera. I do hope they continue this line, and add a fully articulating screen. it would also be nice to have the flash built in I stead of an accessory

Loved your in-depth review. Really appreciate all the details you mentioned and thank you so much for so many photo samples! I’m currently shooting with an Olympus E-PL1. It produces the most beautiful and natural looking colors. I’m thinking of picking one of these up for the tactile shooting experience and the upgrade in resolution and ISO performance.

I really love the shooting experience with this camera, the tactile control is lovely, lens is decently sharp and pretty nice macro as well. I do wish they make a mk3, even if it's just gaining minor update, but at least make it into modern camera. Stuff like USB-C, the phase-detect autofocus or even the newer sensor from GH6. Tilting screen would be nice, but I'd prefer it to be compact like it currently is.

Had the the first version, brilliant little camera. I moved to Fujifilm and several years looking back I can say the experience of the Lumix is equivalent in terms of usability and inspiration. The newer sensor on the II would provide a bit better image quality, closer to the Fuji's APS-C. If today I was still on the Lumix platform, I'd probably go 'big' and get the new G9 Mk II!

Nice review, thank you. I have had LX3, LX 100 as well as LX 100 II. I love the 'Leica / Fujifilm like-' feel and handling and the SIZE IQ trade-off. You nicely pointed out the positives and negatives of this compact camera. Unfortunately, as you also have told us about, it won't be a great movie camera, nor will it ever be an still image IQ king. But trade-offs had to be made and it shows. I never regretted buying any of these Leica?panasonic cameras but ... I fully realized that some corners simply had to be cut before I even bought these 3 compact swiss-knife camera iterations !

I don't think Panasonic will ever release a mark III of this camera. If we get lucky they might do a FF version to compete with the new Nikon ZF.

A great update to a mark 3 would be to put a mechanical zoom on it, like the Fuji X30.

This camera is the best birthday present I ever bought for myself. The biggest selling points for me are the smaller size and weight and controls. I'm not that bothered by the viewfinder, it does its job. I have just tested my LX100II and video is pretty stable on mine, no shakiness like in your video samples. I also get pretty good low light pictures out of mine. Is your IS working and enabled? You should clearly hear the IS working in a silent room.

Thanks for this review. I recently purchased a nearly new LX100II and am enjoying the photo features. D you have any preferred settings or assigned settings to the buttons?

I have the Leica D-Lux Type 109 which is the twin of this excellent camera

bro, lovely images and appreciate the hard work in making the video

It is incredible, I was looking for a fair review (thanks) of this camera and I ended up watching photos taken two steps from my home in Mestre :)) appreciated the all video, thank you! Unfortunately it does not look like the right tool to do videos with a pro, but tiny, camera, as I hoped.

Good review, it this compact to travel 🎉🎉

Thanks. Hope #Panasonic #Lumix and #Leica have plan for a #LX100III and #DLux9. The retro dials are interesting. But they could just add a ISO ans SS dial and a tilting screen like the #X100V. Use the full size of the sensor like the #CanonG1XIII. Add IBIS like the #GR3, keep the zoom lens. Add a bit of internal memory, if they could keep the battery and the SD card separate like the #LeicaQ3, it would be interesting. If the size is a little bigger to use the full 4/3 sensor size and IBIS, it wouldn't be a problem. Leica has managed to have so many collaboration and editions for the #dlux5... hope the makers will think about a new version.

Thank you for the review. Loved it~

It is a good camera but the GX80/85 is better. That has more features, a kit 12-32 compact manual zoom, tilt screen, the latest quiet shutter and sensor stabilisation that works with the lens stabilisation. One of the biggest advantages as it gets older is that the GX80 lens comes off to allow sensor cleaning, although the standard sensor ultrasonic cleaning on G, GH and GX cameras is quite superb anyhow. I own the Leica D-Lux7 version which has quite a few subtle physical and software changes. Mine is a collector’s item, being a 007 limited edition that makes a pair with my Q2 full frame 007 set. While I do use these, it is sparingly and nothing like as frequently as I use the G7 and GX80 or Olympus E-M1 MkII. All have their place and I love them all including the Sony full frame and cheap waterproof child’s Nikon waterproof little thing. The phone has its place also but is never a pleasure to hold and use for me. This is a tool, while my cameras are precision instruments ordering on works of art that help produce my kind of art.

That camera is great. It could use Better AF and an APSC sensor and sign me up!

I am not a photography enthusiast but I would like to take pictures of people I know with a nice depth effect in a simple way. What semi-professional spot do you recommend? I really like the Leica d-lux 7! Thank you

I absolutely love the EVF and I think touch screens are unnecessary

did you use a preset for the first photo?

Thanks... helpful.

Re Sensor Dust. I twice had dust on the sensor of my ZS200. I used the cleaning technique in this video and it worked both times: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zkGg7g6Iy-Y.html

I love mine 👍

If you have to pick one, would you pick the lumix gx80/85 that you reviewed or the lumix lx100 ii?

6:19 I see Taylor Fritz! 🎾

I think the Mark I was more impressive when it came out

good vid but the audio is messed up

audio is panned left

Coulda been great without the piano

the 4:3 dimension is annoying

I absolutely don't like what these series of cameras have become; the designs of LX1 and 2 were great for their aesthetics, plus they were smaller and thinner; since later versions their original design has radically changed and they have also become too feature packed. Leica made their own versions, their best was the Leica D-Lux 3