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Just Posted: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 review
Just Posted: Our Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 review. The latest of our collaborative reviews with Jeff Keller of The Digital Camera Resource Page is of Panasonic's enthusiast compact. The LX7 retains the bright lens and small body that have become the hallmarks of the series but adds more direct control than its forebears, including a dedicated aperture ring. Underpinning it all is a new 10MP CMOS sensor - moving on from the CCDs used in the LX5 and 3. Do all these changes help restore the Lumix to the top of the enthusiast compact pile? Read our review to find out.
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I'm thinking of either picking the LX7 or the GX1x ( getting good deals with gx1x , $150 more than lx7) I'm no professional, but want to take great pics, especially of my 3yr old. I know i can get extra lens with the GX1, but that i not my buying point. I want to know which can take better pics (GX1X with the power lens or LX7). Thanks for your input
I think in the end - the only way to get a true review of any camera -
is set up 5 of them on the same beam - same subject - same lighting.
Each one taking 10 shots - I'd suspect some difference.
Auto Settings:
Sort Focusing First -
Exposure - Second -
Now manual settings:
If focusing becomes an issue - why go further.
As long as it's sharp - computer can alter color.
I'm Quite impressed with this series - Having the ZS3.
What I find critical for GPS - and no one so far really thinks out of the box why.
You are on the freeway - 75mph - you grab quick shot of something - for some reason You Did - right.
Now a Month goes by - You See the Image and go - where the Hell was this?
What about on the Boat? I dare Ya to recall the spot with no landmarks.
Cheers to those who are true Gadgets Freaks.
Before I forget -
The 2 Sec Delay Shutter - If you don't take advantage of this - You missed the next level of sharpness w/o Flash.
I sorta wish it could be set to default when in low light.
Will there be a difference to the Leica d-lux6?
I don't need Lightroom..... have already 3 copy's from Leica....
I have a lumix lx3.... saw never a difference to equivalent Dlux......
Its a great little camera, especially the macro ability. The results are very nice and it is quick and easy to use. You do not have to start digging around in menus to change settings which makes a big difference to the whole experience. I have a number of shots on Flickr taken with it. Flickr account: C Driscoll
The standard of English in this LX7 review is lower than is usual in DPRreviews.
Is this because it has a different source, I wonder [?]
I expect you meant no harm with your comment. However, the writer makes his living by communicating through the written word so to imply his English useage isn't up to standard is quite a serious accusation to make.
Rather than making an easy-to-state general criticism, are you able to back-up your assertion with specific examples?
A reputation is at stake although I doubt you thought in those terms when commenting.
I noticed it straight away. Within the initial paragraph the third sentence starts ...
"" First, there's the LX7's lens...""
Well, if one chose to be pedantic, it should be "First-LY" but hey... this site is American now.
But the sentence continues...
""" ..... with a maximum aperture range of F1.4 - F2.3, it lets in way more light than what you'd find on a compact camera."""
... the "than what you'd find on" got my goat, I'm afraid. It should have been, "than found on." The "what you'd" is redundant, and reminded me of his classic example of 'grot-speak' from the past....
If that was not bad enough, practically the self-same error was made in the very next sentence, which repetition of word order, even if correct, is a style error in its own right.
""The fast aperture range also allows for better background blurring than WHAT YOU'LL find on nearly every fixed-lens camera on the market.""
My personal opinion is that the examples you quote don't contain significant flaws, just that you'd have written them differently. Apparently you do not wish to make allowances for American-speak on an American site.
In my opinion your writing above does include a significant grammatical flaw. You start the penultimate paragraph "If that was not bad enough, ....." To me, that is an example of the grot-speak you deplore. 'If that were not bad enough, .....' would have been correct.
The bottom line is that none of us is perfect when it comes to the written word.
I agree. The reply from RichardAB was a bit frosty and unnecessary.
The written piece should be grammatically correct, otherwise you risk losing the respect of the reader. A great many non-american, English speakers read this website. Please keep written English correct and not "yank-speak".
@ DPReview: The studio scene looks to be out of focus (front focussed). The parts closest to the camera are sharp (check the paperclips). the parts further away get out of focus (check the playing card).
Apart from this: a great review!
What's really missing from the review is not that of the LX-7 but a similar review of the Samsung EX-2F, these 2 are pretty much the same kind of camera, and pretty much same spec too; caming out at the same time. Would be nice to see how they compare.
Was the studio scene shot with a preproduction or broken unit? There is awfully distinct pattern noise in the shadows, especially at higher ISOs. And even the corresponding JPGs look very smeared in these areas.
About a mont ago I purchased the LX7 for a 3 week trip though Europe. What made me go with the LX7 (instead of the Fuji X10, RX100, or G1X) was the wider angle and of course the f1.4.
Half way through the trip I noticed the ND filter was shifting and working only partially on the frame, eventually the LCD screen died. I was running around Paris looking for the optional viewfinder, which I eventually found and paid 249 EUROS!!!
After returning I sent the camera to Lumix and wrote an email expecting a refund on the viewfinder, because I never really wanted one, and was my only solution at that time. The response was... we do not give refunds.
I'm very disappointed with LUMIX customer service.
Also, at high ISO's 2000-3600 the images are NOT usable. I am not sure if it's because of the Lumix software to manage RAW files or the camera itself. I am beginning to question my purchase, sadly.
Very sad to hear. I've just started getting issues with my lightly used LX5 so build quality/longevity may be questionable.
The samples from the review appear very poor compared to other cameras' reviews over the last four or more years I've been using this site on a very regular basis. In fact, the impression they give is one of, "wait for the next rev".
The LX5 has produced some brilliant images, don't get me wrong, and every time my daughter comes in reach of it, it disappears for quite some time.
Given your LUMIX CS experience, I'm now concerned with what kind of reception I'll get for an under 12-month-old unit...
What is the point of showing empty weights of the cameras? Does somebody want to take pictures without battery and memory card? And there are CIPA numbers, with battery and memory card available for all but Koreans. But if you do a review, why not to measure yourself, with the same card? If anything, the weight should be in a set with a spare battery and a bag.
Well, very well, a rather nice evolvement of the LX gene, BUT .. well there's now a camera on similar pricing and named the SONY RX-100. Seriously other than the slower and less wide coverage on the lens. There is really nothing there that why one should not go for the RX-100 instead.
Nikon, Canon, Samsung, Panasonic all go again renewing their top end DC, but sorry the DC had eveolved and Sony simply ( as in their word ) out in disruptive products and a good one AT THAT TOO !!
Now I await who will build the next 1' sensored quality compact , Fujifilm with its EXR sensor or Rioch's next GR-D or Sony's own ( with a different lens )
"There is really nothing there that why one should not go for the RX-100 instead."
The LX7 can take an external viewfinder. Some people really care about that.
[I wouldn't pay 50 quid for a RX100, even thought I adore its image quality. Pity.]
Franka T.L.:
Except the LX7's price is 76% of the RX100, so not exactly the same neighborhood.
And besides the lack of an external flash/viewfinder mount on the RX100, as Joel B points out above, there is no external filter mount on the Sony RX100. That's a huge omission. (And no, gluing on an aftermarket filter mount is not an acceptable alternative for many--particularly on a $650 camera.)
Sony made a nice camera. It could easily have been much better, just imagine if one could use it easily at ISO 6400 like the Nikon 1s!
Finally, many really care about wide angle work. And that's a place where the LX7 excels.
I'm going to be asking Nippon Photo if they can fasten a dead shoe to the RX100 by whatever means necessary, so I can use a viewfinder. These shoeless cameras just get my goat.
"other than the slower and less wide coverage..."
these two to me matters the most.... so I may upgrade from the LX3 to the LX7
A new design iteration may take 6-18mo. in their pipeline, but why the tiny sensor again?
The LX has practically launched the premium P&S market, and now it's dragging in the wake of those who figured that Sony and Aptina have better 1" sensors for this segment.
Can anyone tell me how this camera compares to DMC-LC1? I am really interested if there are any owners who own/had own both cameras. I understand there are clear differences in resolution, movie mode, mic and macro abilities etc. I am interested in lens sharpness and camera manual handling differences. DMC-LC1 had such an amazing analog feel to it and I am curious how this one stacks against it. DMC-LC1 also had that awesome Vario Summicron asph lens and I am curious how this lens compares to it.
I was actually interested in buying a video camcorder and stumbling upon videos taken by DMC-LX7 at 120 fps made me rethink it. But that is a whole different topic.
The video on the LX7 is very nice, 1080p60, plus the high speed at 720 that you mentioned. IQ, in particular DR, is not as good as the RX100, but it's a nicer camera to shoot with because of the grip, the hot shoe, and add-on VF. Like the X10, it feels more substantial, more like a serious photographic tool.
Really disappointed there wasn't a chart (like there has been in recent reviews) that shows the aperture values of the lens throughout the zoom range. It was really useful, and hard info to get elsewhere (and relatively easy to get if you have the camera yourself).
The sensor has a crop of 5.1 (4.7 x 5.1 = 24) (17.7 x 5.1 = 90).
The sensor is therefore smaller than the 1/1.7" stated which has a crop of 4.67. The sensor is more like 1/2" so the LX7 has the smallest sensor of all the 'premium compacts' - worth knowing.
HELP DPR... I am trying to do a camera comparison LX7 vs Sony RX100 after Conclusion at the end of this Review but it appears to not be possible despite having selected "Include All Categories" Is it just me doing something wrong? THX ;)
I have had similar issues along with the one you mentioned. The trouble is that DPR doesn't really seem to include ALL categories (RX100, G1 X etc. are "large sensor compacts") in many comparisons (even if you select "include all categories"). This is VERY frustrating. As a workaround, I have opened the conclusions pages in separate, side-by-side tabs and flipped between them to try to compare - which is very awkward. Just what is your problem DPR?
They are not in the same category. Therefor the comparison chart would not be a valid comparison...
Hmmm... Really Combatmedic870? DPR seems to think they are indeed in the same category...
From the very last paragraph of the LX7 review "Some other premium compacts to consider include the Canon PowerShot S100, Fujifilm X10, Nikon Coolpix P310, Olympus XZ-1, Samsung EX2F, and the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100."
BTAIM, I just want to compare cameras and for some strange and inconsistent reason sometimes that is just not possible although the RX100 has been reviewed already and the data is supposedly available. Makes you wonder sometimes specially when considering DPR's absolute silence.
I handled a LX7 in a shop recently and I thought the slow moving zoom was pretty good because it was much easier to get the framing I wanted. It was better than an OMD EM5 with the rota-rocker kit zoom in that respect.
Whilst ISO 1600 looks OK in even light, I think this camera is only really going to do ISO 800 in *interesting* low light with dramatic contrast. But ISO 800 at about f/2 with image stab ain't bad. Of course, a similar dynamic range limit applies to all compacts (except the X10 in 6MP mode).
For me, the glory of this camera is that it can use an EVF. The only compacts I'd consider are this and the XZ-2 (or used LX5/XZ-1). The X10 doesn't work with lightroom, the RX100 has no viewfinder option, G15 viewfinder just doesn't cut it.
I see the real alternatives as slightly bigger cameras like the G1X/PENs with the collapsible zoom, and maybe the V1 if you want great autofocus above all else.
I bought a LX-2 in 2006 for it was one of the first digital compact camera with manual controls and a wide-angle lens.
I never liked it, and looking at this review and sample pictures they still have not fixed its biggest flaw:
Flat pictures with ugly detail-rendering at anything above iso 200 and/or in less then optimal happy sunny weather.
Thanks for the review. Seems no better than Nikon 7100, will be interesting to see how it holds up against the Nikon 7700 and the new samsung.
The new Samsung is the only one that's competition - the 7700's lens is still a full stop slower than the lx7's.
Im with Paul... They are 2 different beasts. one has a 28-200(very useful FL) and the other has a 24-90(very useful wide angle and fast lens).
Hey DP Review, when you do side by side comparisons of camera models, you should make sure they are the same color (black and black or white and white). Otherwise, it makes it really hard to see the difference in size or shape (larger ladies often wear black for the slimming effect).
Checked the review and everything looks nice, except the lack of mic jack, but the camera is literally dying at ISO 800, companies really understimate the customer, change the sensor ASAP.
Of course what this review lacks is any kind of useful information for making a purchasing decision. Specifically, how does it compare to it's direct competition? Is it bigger? Heavier? Is the sensor smaller or larger? How much faster is the lens? How much does the zoom range compare? How much more or less does it cost?
I miss the aperture equivalent chart that should be a requirement for cameras in this class with their very different sensor sizes (1/2.33", 1/1.7", 2/3", 1")
The LX7's advantage is hardly it's "super bright lens" (it's actually far less light than the RX100 at wide and very similar at tele) as the reviewer points out. This type of exaggeration frustrates me. Super bright compared to what? A $99 elf?
The LX7 shooting at 4:3 has probably the smallest sensor of anything you'd compare it to. It's lens needs to have that context made clear. It's total light over an area that matters.
And background blur comments on a lens that's all of about f8 to f12 FF DOF EQ? Does the reviewer realize how stupid that makes him sound? The DOF on the wide end even wide open goes from about 4 feet to infinity ffs. Full tele 90mm eq open it's as close as 35 feet to infinity.
Your typical 50mm wide open shot from 10 feet away? That's a whopping 7 foot thick DOF.
Do you see any F1.4-2.3 24-90mm lenses anywhere??? Super bright compared to everything. There is no way a F1.4 lets in less light vs a 1.8 lens....its impossible. The RX100 has less DOF at the wide end(4.9 vs 7.1).but it doesnt take in any more light. Dont mix up DOF with light gathering!
The lx7 has a 2 and 3/4 of a stop advantage at the long end. meaning the in the same lighting. if the lx7 is at F2.3, iso800 the RX100 would be at F4.9 ISO5000. Compare the LX7 at iso800 vs the RX100 at ISO5000. Or compare ISO400 to ISO2500. thats what you would get on the long end with equal playing fields.
At the long end, the LX7 WILL give a narrower DOF VS the rx100(F11 VS F13). At the short end....are you really trying to get a narrow DOF?? You can barely get a Narrow DOF with a APS-c sensor with a 24mm (eqiv) 1.4 lens!
These cameras are 2 different beasts. One has a very sharp 24-90 1.4-2.3 lens and the other has a mediocre 28-100 1.8-4.9 lens.
To you second point.....The LX7 has a larger sensor then an elf....which is what you compared it too....Im REALLY not understanding any sort of point you making here...
i dont even understand what your comparing it too now? A FF sensor for DOF? What kind of sense does that make?? comparing 10 feet away to 35 ft away?
My XZ-1 shoot an equiv of about F12.5 on the long end...it gives me a pretty nice shallow DOF for head and shoulder pics. More shallow then what an RX100 can give due to it not going to 112mm and the lack of a faster lens....
You have yet to really make a point when it comes to you downing this camera...You seem like you somewhat know what your talking about....but you mixing up DOF with light gathering was....yea...
You say its total light of an area that matters.....THATS WHAT THE SUPER FAST LENS IS FOR!!!!
Regarding review: LX7 is obviously a concept based on optical performance of the lens, inviting user to choose low ISO even in low light situations. That's why some quantitative testing of the lens performance (edge-to-edge sharpness with aperture wide open) would be very wellcome. The image stabilization efficiency test is missing as well.
I agree with this...
So do I.
The sample photos must become more technically useful, at the unavoidable cost of being less artistically pleasing. WE CAN SUCK THIS UP.
This thing has *fast* lens (even on the long end) of very high optical quality. That makes it an outstanding device, in some aspects more usable than Sony RX100.
I am really tired of the 1" and RX100 mantra claiming this to be the sole way to achieve good low-light capability. This is different approach ("small sensor+fast lens") to achieve low-light capability.
Took me a while to realize what you were saying about the mantra. I too am interested in the alternatives, particularly when you compare these new cameras to the old Olympus XZ-1 at low ISO. The image quality of that "old" camera still seems a lot cleaner than any of the newer cameras at sub 200 ISO.
I just bought the FZ200, and am very happy with what it does despite the "small" sensor, although I have only scratched the surface of what it is capable of. My last point and shoot was a Fuji 3D, which seemed like a good idea at the time and was a bad idea when it came to real photo taking. Before that, I had the FZ5, which I still think was one of the best point and shoots ever.
What I am looking for now though is a pocket camera with excellent low light capabilities. I am somewhat flexible on the term "pocket" so the RX100, LX7, and XZ-2 are all on my radar, so having as many opportunities to objectively compare is important to me.
Yes, the review style is kind of sub-par for DPR, but still usable for sure. DPR needs to keep up their former high standards as they obviously are transitioning the site to something else. In contrast, the tablet review was absolutely terrible.
Just bought the LX-7 to replace my LX-5 (had an LX-3 before that). Why do I keep coming back to these cameras?
It's the combination of features in an extremely small package.
24mm FF equivalent fast lens at the wide end - missing in almost all cameras of this class
True 16:9 mode and true multi-aspect sensor
Built-in flash
Switches/buttons instead of buried menus
RW2 (though only for dynamic range)
Decent size to hold on to - not too small nor to large
Availability of excellent leather case
Very very decent video
Good enough IQ
Does it have problems? Sure, but for me it has been the best compact camera for my uses thus far, including the new RX100 (which does not have true 16:9 nor 24mm and is more fiddly to use because of it's size).
As a follow-up, to my post above:
As much as I like the LX-series, I think that it will soon be out-classed by the RX100-like large sensor cameras, especially if someone can pull off a large sensor with a 24-XX FF equiv. zoom range with decent speed and optical IQ in a package of about the same size.
The MP war is over and the large sensor in a small body war is heating up.
Now if m43 could put an excellent, somewhat fast, fixed collapsible 24-XX equiv. lens onto a m43 body with decent external controls that would be killer . . . .
My main concern about the RX100 series is the kind of limitations that sensor puts on the lens. Sure, you get better ISO images, but with brighter lenses you do not need to go up to that ISO anyway. Just look at the ZX-1 at low ISO. The image quality, IMHO, is still cleaner than the RX100.
The wrinkle in this argument is size. What would the RX100 be capable of if they had used a larger body and less megapixels on that sensor? The body to sensor size in the RX100, is really where it shines, and one of the reasons I have been thinking about a purchase.
Again a sticky control-dial (as on FZ150 etc.) and a lousy user manual. Rubbish.
Doesn't really address changes in IQ from LX5. The studio shot comparison page shows the LX7 to be a bit noisier than the LX5, at least with RAW files, but I'm not sure I entirely trust what I'm seeing. Would have been nice to have this addressed by the reviewer.
The review does not sufficiently emphasize the main selling point of this camera. The extraordinary fast f1.4-f3.3 3.8x zoom lens. At the short end it is a full 2 stops faster than the lenses on the competitors Canon G12 or Nikon p7100 for a relatively insignificant reduction in zoom range (add a tele-converter and that disappears). High burst rate and better high ISO RAW performance than either of these cameras add icing to the cake.
What this review lacks are resolution tests of this "incredible" lens when set at different focal lengths and wide open. Providing the resolution holds up Panasonic need to offer an upscaled version of this lens for their m4/3 customers.
If I was not already invested in m4/3 and some fast primes, I would be getting in line for one of these.
While 250 seconds of exposure is simply awesome, and few others seem to get anywhere near to this, I still am a little saddened to see no remote and no bulb. Ah well .. why are these cameras always just SO close to perfection seeming in handling and features, and then you find one glaring omission or another. Perhaps that is where the competition can come in ... are you listening, Sonoly, Nikon, Samsung, Canon, and company?? There is an opening yet, to make that one knockout camera, the one 'ring' to rule them all :P
The video samples are horrible.
DPreview has always had a very different feel from all the other photo blogs: an in-depth quality, intelligence, and precision which has given it a tone of authority. I always wait until the review on DPreview to form an opinion.
This outsourced review is fine, but it just doesn't feel like DPreview--too folksy and breezy in tone. The conclusion, and indeed the whole article, lacks the kind of knowledgeable commentary (especially, as others have noted, in reference to the competition) which is usually so characteristic of DPreview. In this respect the preview was actually more helpful.
As a long-time reader, I hope that this is not a sign of things to come for DPreview.
I have to agree. There are passages which are 'cutesy' in tone and reminiscent of a Sky Programme planner ('watch this!! It's great').
While personal opinion may play a factor in some aspects of a camera's ergonomic performance, statements like 'I don't think...' have no place in the cut and thrust of technical debate. In the conclusion section, you state: 'Intelligent Resolution feature nicely sharpens photos'. It does this 'nicely' does it?? Sorry, but that is not good enough.
Also, taking a close look at those example pictures, I can't see any comments of the noise in the shadows which 'looks' high.
Overall, there's a sense that either you are afraid of alienating the casual compact camera user - or - quiet pressure is being applied to 'sell up' the cameras. If this continues it will seriously undermine the good work that has gone before.
I agree with your points, and those of OP, but you do realize that Amazon.com owns dpreview, right? Would you fall over backwards if you found out that pressure were applied to sell up cameras? I'm talking about subtle pressure, where the reviewers continue to think that they are being objective. In the same way that a newspaper reporter is told what story to cover, but continues to think that make their own decisions.
This wouldn't make dpreview any different from any other review site, though. They all make money from click-throughs.
And it's a given that the comment sections and forums are riddled with hacks posting on behalf of the various companies.
In the end, you and I are responsible for what we do with the iinformation on this site.
Oh, and the camera? Looks nice. I had an Olympus C7070, earlier generation enthusiast compact, that I loved. Now I shoot a so-so Canon 230SX. This camera might get me back into the enthusiast compact sector.
Oddly enough, Amazon does not have any employees whose job it is to take an interest in dpreview's reviews.
There is NO external pressure of any sort (beyond making the site popular) that is communicated to the reviewing staff. This has a different feel because it's a collaborative review with Jeff Keller from The Digital Camera Resource Page - no because there's been any shift in editorial direction (Amazon influenced or otherwise).
@R Butler
Just to clarify, I find your site awesome, and I do think of all the major photography sites that you are the most objective and the most informative.
Still, you are owned by another company whose job it is to sell cameras, which should be of interest to people.
A far greater problem than the influence of Amazon (if it even exists) is the people who post here as disinterested or objective consumers but who represent outside interests.
If you claim that nobody representing outside interests posts here, congratulations--Amazon hasn't gotten rid of paid reviewers yet!
No, I don't have a solution, and no, I am not criticizing DPreview. I'll say it again, you do a GREAT job, and I've learned a tremendous amount by hanging out here. I am voicing concerns about the Internet business model in general, and they're not even concerns, just facts that consumers should be aware of to responsibly use sites like this one.
Thank you for all the great work you've done with this site.
Likewise. I mostly love DP. The only time I got totally hacked off with your company was the deafening silence from yourselves after I had attended an interview. This response was a lot speedier (and no, I am not bitter honestly). However, as the review stresses that this is a JOINT COLLABORATION, let's apportion the light hearted whimsy to The Digital Camera Resource Page shall we? :)
Very impressive review - I do not think that any other review site even comes close to this level of detail and thoroughness. While it is a striking-seeming camera (with controls galore and evf capability, which I insist on at this point), and it is one that I would perhaps even consider buying if I currently had the splurging funds for it, it is rather too bad that this LX7 seems to take a backseat to the LX5 in some respects in the JPEG Studio Scene Comparison (though I love that we still have the legacy scene here for now! How sad it would be, if we just had the new scene already and couldn't compare this camera point-by-point with it's slightly older peers, and its LX5 'father'.. on things like that watch face, those bottle, the card, the threads, the globe, and so on..). I also wonder if Panasonic could not have pared down the size of the body and parts that stick out a very slight bit, rather than increase it for this newest generation.
(continued) ..I am no engineer and realize that doing so must be incredibly difficult, while still maintaining the build quality and features. But, like I said, I am admittedly clueless in that regard. You just have to wonder though, if Sony managed to pull off what seems like the impossible, surely Panasonic could have given them at least a small run for the money! Ah well, maybe in the next generation. This is still a highly desireable camera in my book, and I am sure that they will sell briskly. Fun to drool over, at any rate! Anyhow, thanks for this ... You guys haven't lost your touch one bit, I see :) (oh, I should never have doubted you dpreview, wah!)
Question: According to the specs, it uses 1/1.7" sensor with a total of 12.7 detected sensors. However Output is 10.1 MP. What is the actual size of the sensor that the light hits? Is panasonic doing a Canon trick that they did with the 520 HS, where they use a 16MP 1/2.33" sensor but its actually a 10.1 MP 1/3" sensor?
This should have been explained in the review, but here's a partial explanation from a previous review:
A more complete explanation is that small sensors are cheap and take up little space, whereas fast lenses are expensive and bulky. Therefore in a camera prioritising both compact dimensions and low-light performance, it makes very good sense indeed to ensure the full image circle of the lens is used in all aspect ratios. Geometry dictates that the resulting sensor will be oversized for any particular aspect ratio.
Panasonic made its own oversized sensor (1/1.63-type) for the LX3 and LX5, allowing an active area close to competitors with 1/1.7-type chips. But for the LX7 Panasonic uses the same off-the-shelf Sony sensor as everyone else except Canon, and thus the active area is a little smaller than the competitors.
It works out to be equivalent to about a 1/1.9-type sensor.
It is a clever design: A multi-aspect sensor.
At 4:3 it behaves like a 1/1.8 sensor.
You can read about this in the preview.
I have the LX5 - good image quality for a compact, well made, great lens and absolutely brilliant for macro photography. Therefore, I was looking forward to the LX7 but with trepidation and rightly it seems. Panasonic have done nothing to correct the considerable LX5 problems:
The totally useless thumbwheel that selects unwanted modes if you press too hard whilst rotating it.
The fiddly controls.
The useless clutter of scene selections and in-camera image processing.
The ridiculous intelligent auto that does everything that you *don't* want the camera to do.
The failure to separate out all the useless clutter from the camera's useful features as with Samsung's NX100 for example.
It's a real pity that Panasonic have again not produced a proper enthusiasts camera - a missed opportunity.
I largely agree.
This camera needs a good paring down and some critical attention to its user interface (both mechanical and software).
Fundamentally it's very sound: lens, sensor, hardware speed, build, and materials. The trouble is it's put together by incompetent product managers applying tired old consumer-electronics ideas that don't even work for TVs and bread machines anymore, never mind premium cameras.
Panasonic needs to muster a bit of courage and bring the LX-series back to its roots, updated for current sensibilities.
I couldn't said it better myself.
So far the only interesting feature is the new picture effects.
I find it silly to invest $600 on what what would be apps for my LX5.
Let's wait for LX9
?! Seems to me that paring down and adding picture effects are two opposite movements.
I'm fairly old-school when it comes to camera interfaces. And yet, I don't find the extra features (e.g. scene modes) at all obtrusive. This is probably because the camera's superb customizability and custom settings allow me to set every aspect of the camera's operation exactly the way I want and just like my Canon 1-series: AE lock via rear button, AF activation via rear button, auto AF point select, burst mode, aperture-priority AE. Yes, there's a lot of extraneous stuff in the menus, but now that I've got the camera set up, they're completely out of my way. I actually find Panasonic's menu system much more comprehensible than Nikon's.
this lx7 is great on the paper, it combines the fast lenses of samsung ex/olympus xz with the great manual controls of the old lx5.
with a 1.4-2.3 i think it should have a 1 stop advantage over the sony rx100 so in the real use they are pretty near shooting in low light.
the real problem of this tipe of camera today is that they are too close to a m4/3 both for the size both for the price.
those aren't pocket camera, you even have the lens cap!
this camera sold for 400$ / 300€ here in europe would be great, instead it costs around 450€ and the sony is 550.
sorry but for this price i'd buy a gf5 or a pen everyday. put on the 20mm 1.7 and they are even smaller!
Apples and oranges...
Yes, a PEN mini with a pancake is super small, but of not much use if you go on a trip and photograph landscapes, portraits and a few macros in one row.
a pen with a 20mm pancake is great for trip pothog. the pen with the standard 14-42mm is only a tad thicker than the lx7 and great allrounder.
difference is that the pen with the kit lense here in europe is 150$ less than the lx7 and you can change the lense everytime you want.
It has an awful shadow noise to a point that at 1600 ISO even in RAW there is some noise reduction, Panasonic just can't keep up with modern small sensors, but somehow everybody seems to ignore this
The size comparison tables in the Canon G15 and Fuji XF1 previews (and perhaps others as well) has the LX7 being 76mm high, which makes it by far the largest in those comparisons (taller than the G15!). In fact the LX1 is more like 67mm high.
That size-comparison table has another problem: it reports the Samsung EX2F's depth as 28 mm (equal to the Canon S100).
In fact, Samsung conveniently ignores that the camera has a large protruding lens.
Most manufacturers did this in the past (e.g. Panasonic with the LX3), but since the others in the chart have moved on to truthful specifications, DPReview should really report the proper size for the Samsung too, instead of rewarding fibs.
The programmable ring is a joy to use
The high ISO is very impressive
The lens is very impressive with resolution and its distortion control
It is fast
It takes fantastic video
It produces beautiful high resolution images
It has great two stage stabilisation
It has PHENOMENAL dynamic range
I mean RX100 of course, here to stay and continue to destroy the likes of this 10 MP joke. Those who think 20 MP is a bigger joke should examine printed images from RX100.
DPR say that one should also consider the RX100 as an alternative but the comparison tool doesn't allow this?
thats the first review I can not understand.... tried this camera 2 times.... results are not impressing at all..
Pictures have a digital look like years ago...... ugly colours
Nice specs. Unfortunately everything beyond ISO 100 looks mushy.
Almost no skin texture at ISO 320.
Some samples in the REVIEW galery suspiciuously looks were taken from PREVIEW day out testing. But wasn't that camera PRE-product?
Never in human history did we have this huge range of fine cameras!
Another Silveraward - and I dont doubt its well deserved.
I think the studioshot is so-so. I would like DP to take real-life samples that are more or less consistent ( same F, iso, range and focal lenght). According to the studioshot my RX100 slap LX7 on the face.
I had the Panny TZ7 and was very happy with build quality. The TZ10 was another story... Therefore I turned back to Sony and I think RX100 is built like a brick. I hope LX7 didnt get the plastic disease..
I didn't see the Dynamic Range comparisons. It is interesting to see how it compares to larger sensors.
Compact cameras rarely behave consistently enough to shoot the DR test reliably. DR tests have not ever been a common feature of compact reviews.
Why is DPR still using old studio shots? I thought they were going to update to new studio images
We are going to move to a new scene but we'll be responding to the feedback we received and re-shooting a decent number of cameras before moving across.
Those who are dismissing the RX100 after playing with it for a few mins at the store, try it out for a week if you ever get the chance. I've been a Panasonic shooter for a couple of years and I initially didn't like the RX100 but it grew on me and I really like it now. It's gotten to the point where I start pressing the wrong things when I pick up my Panasonic cameras. Panasonic probably has the slight edge when it comes to button placement and functions and things but the RX100 is very close.
The LX7 looks like a fine camera and if the RX100 never existed, I would've bought this no question. But I think that the RX100 is the closest I'm gonna get (at this point) to having a pocketable DSLR (minus the interchangeable lenses of course) and that's well worth paying extra. But everyone's gotta get the right camera for them and it's gonna be different for everyone so it's all good.
Comparison of LX7 to Nikon P7700
I only take family photos.
I was thinking of buying Nikon P7700 to be used with
a Nikon Flash. I have the large Nikon SB-800 flash.
I like bounced flash very much.
If it looks too stupid, I might buy a smaller SB-400.
And Panasonic has enjoyed an excellent (close to top)
reputation of the LX series.
I see that the LX7 has f1.4, and also a 1080/60p
I am very attracted to it.
I expect the LX7 to work well with Nikon SB800/ SB400.
What is your recommendation please?
Panny LX7 OR Nikon P7700?
I use a Panasonic LX3 with a Nikon SB-800 - TTL flash doesn't work, so you have to set the flash to Auto mode and select the aperture settings manually. It's a bit fiddly, but it works well.
A big flash like the SB-800 is really top-heavy on a tiny camera like the LX3/5/7 - I use a cheap wireless trigger and either hold the flash in my other hand, or for bounce you can set it to manual and put it up on a bookcase or something to bounce off the ceiling - I took a load of shots like this last Christmas at my mum-in-law's and they look great.
If you're going with a small flash for the Panasonic, I'd look at something like the Metz 24 AF-1 which is small and light and would give you TTl flash which a Nikon SB-400 wouldn't.
In that case, I might go for the Nikon P7700 then.
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Rotolight has released the Anova Pro 2 circular LED for stills and video, boasting a 70% increase in brightness and what the company describes as "unrivaled battery performance."
Designer Vinicius Araújo has imagined what he believes the perfect Adobe software keyboard might look like. From customizable touch pads, to a scroll wheel, to a little display that shows the tool in use, his design is pretty compelling.
Peak Design has teamed up with Leica to release a limited-edition backpack made special for fans of the Red Dot.
A portrait of an android woman has beaten over 5,700 pictures of humans to take third place in this year's prestigious Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. The judges were not told the subject was an 'android' until after the winning images were chosen.
Hauling around C-Stands just got a whole lot less annoying thanks to these new Matthews shoulder and roller bags, which can hold two or three C-stand (respectively) plus accessories.
Neal Preston has shot timeless photos of everyone from Led Zeppelin, to Whitney Houston, to Michael Jackson. In this interview, he offers insights into his craft to up-and-comer Elijah Dominique.
Future prosumer Canon DSLRs might feature light-up buttons, if this newly published patent is any indication of the camera company's plans.
Sony's a7R Mark III shoots 42.4MP files at 10fps and incorporates a robust video feature set, large battery, refined ergonomics and more. It certainly looks impressive, but what is it like to use, and how does it stack up against the rest of the market? Find out in our full review.
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While it shares a name with one of Leica's most popular and affordable cameras of the 1970s, the new CL is separated from its namesake by more than just years. We've been using one for a few days - click through for a detailed first-impressions report.
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Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, 12 years ago more than 100 Members of Congress from both parties stood together on the Capitol steps to show our sympathy, solidarity, and resolve. Those of us who were there will never forget it. Later this morning Members will gather on the same steps to remember once again those who died and to recommit ourselves to our national ideals--together. Our Nation always pulls together in difficult moments;Ð 9/11 showed us that. It is important we remember it.
I look forward to joining congressional leaders and others out on the same steps shortly, on this day that has rightly become a very solemn one throughout our country.
We remember today all those who were killed as well as the families they left behind. We remember them with renewed sorrow. We remember all who lost their lives or who have been injured in the line of duty defending our freedoms since 9/11.
Today, we remember the resolve we shared on a clear September morning 12 years ago.
In the days and months that followed the attacks of 9/11, we did not cower. We took the fight to the terrorists, while here at home we opened our doors, our wallets, and our hearts to those around us. We persevered. We maintained what was and is best about our country. And, together, we will continue to do so as long as this struggle continues.
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Memphis Grizzlies vs. Denver Nuggets - 1/8/16 NBA Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Denver Nuggets (13-23) at Memphis Grizzlies (19-18)
NBA Basketball: Friday, January 8, 2016 at 8:00 pm (FedExForum)
The Line: Memphis Grizzlies -6 -- Over/Under: See the Latest Odds
The Denver Nuggets travel to the FedEx Forum to battle the Memphis Grizzlies tonight.
The Nuggets will be looking to make it back to back wins after snapping a six-game losing streak with a 78-74 win at Minnesota on Wednesday. Danilo Gallinari led the team with 20 points while Jusuf Nurkic added 15 points off the bench as the Nuggets won despite shooting just 36 percent from the field. I'd say that they won this game with hard-nosed defense, but this really was just one of the ugliest games you'll ever see, with both teams missing open shots and layups. Despite the win, Denver is still only 13-23 on the season and 8-12 on the road.
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Meanwhile, the Grizzlies have won three of their last five games but are coming off a poor showing, losing to the Thunder by 112-94 on Wednesday. Mario Chalmers led the scoring with 23 points off the bench while Matt Barnes had 13, but this game was over by halftime as the Thunder stormed out of the gates to lead by 56-36 going into the break. Marc Gasol scored just eight points while Courtney Lee finished scoreless as he filled in for Mike Conley who sat out with a sore achilles tendon. With the loss, Memphis falls to 19-18 on the season and 8-12 on the road.
In ATS trends, the Nuggets are 5-2 ATS in their last seven road games against a team with a winning home record and 7-3-1 ATS in their last 11 road games overall, while the Grizzlies are 4-0 ATS in their last four home games and 5-2-1 ATS in their last eight games following a loss.
Head to head, the Nuggets are 4-1 ATS in the last five meetings overall but the home team is 7-3 ATS in the last 10 meetings.
The Nuggets are coming off a much needed win in their last outing, but I'm predicting that they'll get back to losing as the Grizzlies will want to atone for their poor showing in their last time out. Take the Grizzlies to win and cover the spread at home over a struggling Nuggets team that's dealing with injuries.


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Krista had just completed the farm internship required for her degree in agriculture when her two cowboy mentors invited her to their home to celebrate. The two sexy cowboys had been tough on the sweet city girl, making no exceptions in their often harsh training for a life far removed from the amenities enjoyed in the city. But Krista liked the two men. They were cute, but rugged appearing, with deep tans that set off their blue eyes perfectly. She would have loved to have either one of them.
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Krista walked inside and was instantly hugged by the two men who had now become her buddies. "Hi, guys."
"This is a very special occasion, Krista, and we must toast to it." The elder of the two men, Roger, poured glasses of champagne and handed each one a glass of the bubbly.
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Oracle USA loses twice to Kiwis in America's Cup
High profile personnel changes fail to stem the tide for Oracle Team USA in San Francisco Bay as Emirates Team New Zealand pull further ahead in race for America's Cup
Even with the most successful sailor in Olympic history on board, defending America's Cup champions Oracle Team USA simply can't catch Emirates Team New Zealand on the open water.
The plucky Kiwis beat Oracle Team USA twice more on Thursday, moving closer to taking the America's Cup 'down under' for the second time in 18 years.
Team New Zealand turned a close Race 6 into a 47-second victory. They then whitewashed billionaire Larry Ellison's syndicate in the seventh race, leading the whole way for a victory of 66 seconds.
Team New Zealand now leads by six wins and needs three more victories to reclaim the trophy for the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.
The way the Kiwis are sailing, the clincher could come on Sunday on San Francisco Bay. Friday is a rest day, with Races 8 and 9 on Saturday. Two more races are scheduled for Sunday.
Oracle Team USA, owned by software magnate Ellison of Oracle Corporation, was docked two points in the biggest cheating scandal in the 162-year history of the America's Cup leaving it in negative territory. It now needs to win 10 races to retain the trophy, nicknamed the 'Auld Mug', at the Golden Gate Yacht Club in California.
The American syndicate's boat – which has just one American in its 11-man crew – couldn't catch New Zealand skipper Dean Barker, even after replacing its principal tactician John Kostecki with the British star Ben Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history.
"We cannot give up and I can guarantee we won't do that," Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill said. "We'll keep fighting the whole way till the end. There's still a lot of racing; I'm still convinced we can win races. Sure we made a change in the back of boat. Both John and Ben are fantastic sailors, two of the best in the world, so we're very fortunate we can rotate guys like that. But we have to study the data and really see what we can do to change up the boat."
Even though the five-leg course has just one up-wind leg, the Kiwis are simply too good and too quick when the 72-foot catamarans are zig-zagging toward the Golden Gate Bridge.
After a fierce tacking duel in Race 6, the seventh race turned into a laugher.
"We wouldn't be here if we weren't driven," Barker said. "Team New Zealand exists to win the America's Cup. It's why we're here. We've got an opportunity, but we've still got to go out and perform well on the water."
Barker sped across the starting line ahead of rival Jimmy Spithill and kept his catamaran ahead the whole way. The Kiwis led by 7 seconds at the second gate after the down-wind second leg and then raced away sailing past Alcatraz Island toward the Golden Gate Bridge. At the third gate, the Kiwi lead was 56 seconds.
In Race 6, Spithill led by 12 seconds at the down-wind second gate before the Kiwis reeled in the American syndicate during a fierce tacking duel past Alcatraz Island. Among the grinders, the men who turn the winches that power the hydraulic system on the catamarans, are Rob Waddell, an Olympic rowing gold medalist and former two-time world champion, and Grant Dalton, the 56-year-old syndicate head.
Kiwi tactician Ray Davies called for an extra gybe – when crew shift from one side of the boat to the other – sailing on the down-wind second leg, which allowed Team New Zealand to split from Oracle on the up-wind third leg and gain starboard tack advantage.
After two lead changes, the boats crossed for a third time. Barker pulled an aggressive move and pointed his boat straight at Oracle, forcing it to do a deeper turn. As a consequence, the Kiwis began pulling away while sailing in light wind and led by 44 seconds at gate three.
"We're stoked with the way today went," said Glenn Ashby, an Australian who expertly trims the wing sail on the New Zealand boat. "This was a bit of a pivotal day for us in the campaign. I think the boys certainly sailed a fantastic first race and second race, but particularly in the first race where we were sort of backs-to-the-wall. A third of the way through the race the guys dug really deep and I've never seen some of the performance out of the handles that those guys were wanting today."
On Thursday morning, Spithill replaced Kostecki with Ainslie, who won four straight Olympic gold medals as well as a silver for Britain. The 36-year-old Ainslie was knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace in March.
Until Thursday, Ainslie had served as helmsman of the back-up boat, helping to prepare Spithill for the regatta. The move had been expected since Kostecki called for a foiling tack that the American syndicate failed to execute in a punishing loss in Race 5 on Tuesday.
Oracle then played its one and only postponement card of the regatta and delayed Race 6 until Thursday.
With Kostecki off the boat, Rome Kirby is the only American remaining on the 11-man crew.
Team New Zealand beat Dennis Conner 5-0 off San Diego in 1995. Russell Coutts, the Kiwi skipper then, is currently CEO of Oracle Team USA.
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Through either trades or free agency, seven veteran quarterbacks have switched teams in the NFL over the past three weeks.
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Only one of them, Jon Kitna, the new Dallas Cowboys backup, remotely can approximate Garcia's fairly impressive accomplishments in the league.
Yet, two weeks into his latest experience with unrestricted free agency, Garcia is still without a job. His phone rarely rings with job offers.
The silence that surrounds Garcia is deafening and one of the real puzzles of early free agency.
Perhaps his age, 39, and his itinerant background -- Garcia has played for five different franchises in six seasons -- are culprits. Maybe the travel tags have become baggage. Yet it seems teams clearly want to get younger at the quarterback position -- but not necessarily better.
Before free agency began in February, Tampa Bay Buccaneers officials told Garcia that he should not plan on a third season with the team. Luke McCown has been anointed the new starting quarterback. Garcia took the abrupt demotion in stride.
He is certainly flexible about his future role in the league. Garcia is just as strident about not retiring, not when he feels he is coming off two very good seasons in Tampa Bay, and has a couple more good years in him.
In his two seasons with the Bucs, Garcia was 14-10 as a starter, took his team from last place in 2006 to the playoffs in 2007. He thought he had provided much-needed stability at a position which historically has been a revolving door of sorts for the team.
Yet less-experienced quarterbacks such as Ryan Fitzpatrick (Buffalo),
Dan Orlovsky (Houston), J.T. O'Sullivan (Cincinnati), Chris Simms (Denver) and Matt Cassel (Kansas City) have found jobs. The presumptive starter with the Minnesota Vikings is Sage Rosenfels, a journeyman who has 12 regular-season starts compared with Garcia's 116, and whose history has been marked with turnovers.
In a league where several teams are at least still seeking backup quarterbacks, it's hard to imagine that the accomplished Garcia could well be the odd man out when clubs report to training camp this summer.
But until his telephone rings, or someone contacts agent Steve Baker about him, that's exactly how it is. Jeff Garcia is a man without a team and that's beyond frustrating. Despite the movement in free agency, several veterans remain unemployed, but few possess Garcia's résumé.
"I'm not saying what my role will be [in the NFL in 2009], but it's frustrating right now," Garcia recently told The Tampa Tribune. "What's especially frustrating, after knocking around for a while, is that I know I can still play. The two seasons with the Bucs really rejuvenated my career. The juices are flowing again and I couldn't always say that."
Two years ago, then-coach Jon Gruden convinced Garcia to sign with the Bucs. But Gruden, who struggled after the franchise's Super Bowl XXXVII victory, is gone. And so, it seems, is Garcia's safety net.
"I guess it's time again to find another new team," said Garcia, who had hoped to conclude his playing career with the Bucs.
"He's on the radar screen but right now, he's a blip," said one NFC pro personnel chief, who asked for anonymity. He admires Garcia, does not want to embarrass the veteran, and hopes the former San Jose State star returns to the league -- just not with his team.
Garcia is one of only seven quarterbacks in NFL history to have back-to-back seasons of 30 or more touchdown passes. He has thrown for more than 25,000 career yards, with an almost 2-1 ratio of touchdown passes to interceptions (161-83). Among the seven quarterbacks who have found new teams, only Kitna has thrown for more yards (27,293 compared with Garcia's 25,537), and none of them has more touchdown passes. Take Kitna out of the equation, and Garcia has thrown more touchdown passes than the other six combined.
Garcia has been to four Pro Bowl games, the most recent only two seasons ago. Garcia has rung up a winning record of 59-57, not terribly impressive. But he has not played on a strong team since being traded by the San Francisco 49ers -- who made the playoffs in 2001 and 2002 under Garcia -- to the Cleveland Browns for salary-cap purposes in 2004. In one of his few standout seasons since then, Garcia replaced an injured Donovan McNabb toward the end of the 2006 season, and led the Philadelphia Eagles to a playoff berth.
His reward that year was much the same as it has been this spring: no new contract.
The veteran quarterback -- a former Canadian Football League star who entered the NFL at 29 -- left his heart in San Francisco, along with most of his best days as a difference-maker in the league.
But given a chance, Garcia feels like he can summon up some glory days once again. Yet, while younger, less experienced quarterbacks get jobs, Garcia is stuck in the unemployment line.
And like a lot of Americans during this financial crisis, he wonders how he got there.
Senior writer Len Pasquarelli covers the NFL for ESPN.com.


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From RHODE ISLAND LAWYERS WEEKLY: "GPS ruling breaks new ground on privacy rights" by Albert Turco and Kimberly Atkins
February 9th, 2012: After punting on the issue in the past, the U.S. Supreme Court has again waded into the choppy waters of privacy protection in the digital age in a case involving the warrantless use of a GPS device on a suspect's car.
But while still not ruling on the privacy issue directly, this time five justices gave a strong indication that individuals' privacy interests may be entitled to constitutional protection.
In U.S. v. Jones, the unanimous court held that the installation and use of a GPS device by police to track a car's movements constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment.
But the court was split on the basis for that conclusion. A five-member majority held that the GPS use constituted a physical trespass under centuries-old common law principles.
"It is important to be clear about what occurred in this case: The government physically occupied private property for the purpose of obtaining information," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote. "We have no doubt that such a physical intrusion would have been considered a 'search' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it was adopted."
But in a strongly worded concurrence joined by three other justices, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. argued that the court should have reached its conclusion by examining "whether respondent's reasonable expectations of privacy were violated."
"Ironically, the Court has chosen to decide this case based on 18th-century tort law. … This holding, in my judgment, is unwise," Alito wrote. "It strains the language of the Fourth Amendment; it has little if any support in current Fourth Amendment case law; and it is highly artificial."
In what may prove to be the key opinion in the case, Justice Sonia Sotomayor — who also joined in Scalia's trespass analysis — wrote a separate concurrence stating that privacy interests were also implicated and suggesting a willingness to engage in a privacy analysis in future cases involving advancing technologies.
"I would ask whether people reasonably expect that their movements will be recorded and aggregated in a manner that enables the Government to ascertain, more or less at will, their political and religious beliefs, sexual habits, and so on," Sotomayor wrote.
The nearly evenly split court illustrates the difficulty courts around the country have in applying Fourth Amendment principles to new technology, said Emily J. Sack, a professor at Roger Williams University School of Law.
Unanswered questions
The case was marked by some unusual twists from the outset.
As part of a broader surveillance operation, police obtained a warrant to install a GPS device on the car of suspected drug trafficker Antoine Jones. The warrant stipulated that the device be installed in the District of Columbia within 10 days. For unexplained reasons, the police waited 11 days and then installed the device in Maryland.
The device tracked Jones' travels for about a month, including trips to a suspected stash house, where police were later able to recover cash, cocaine, weapons and drug paraphernalia.
Jones was ultimately convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit threw out his conviction, finding that the use of the GPS device without a valid warrant violated his Fourth Amendment rights.
The Supreme Court took the case and affirmed the D.C. Circuit's ruling in a way that puts lower courts on notice that both traditional trespass principles and privacy rights can be implicated by warrantless GPS use.
But that leaves lower court judges facing a difficult task. They need to figure out what kind of warrantless GPS tracking will run afoul of Fourth Amendment principles. In Jones, the surveillance lasted a month. But what if the tracking lasts for only a matter of days or hours or minutes?
Jones "is a fact-based decision," said Andrew Pincus, a partner in the Washington office of Mayer Brown and author of an amicus brief in the case on behalf of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "How far down the spectrum does the ruling apply?"
New directions
Sack describes Jones as a preview of how the court will handle Fourth Amendment privacy rights in the years ahead.
While no justice drew a bright line between the improper warrantless GPS use identified in Jones and what the Fourth Amendment would allow, Sack noted that Alito cited a 1983 Supreme Court case to describe permissible warrantless tracking.
In that case, U.S. v. Knotts, the police used an electronic pager to follow a suspect's car on a single trip. Sack said the court decided that the short duration of the surveillance did not implicate any privacy expectation.
However, Sotomayor distinguished between the cases, reasoning that Jones involved more sophisticated technology than Knotts. Sack said that could mean that, without a warrant, placing a tracking device on a suspect's vehicle would amount to an illegal search.
But Sotomayor's Fourth Amendment analysis went beyond physical intrusions to suggest the court reconsider the precedent that a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information even voluntarily shared with a third party, in the context of Internet accounts and online transactions.
As a result, Sack said, attorneys could cite to Sotomayor's opinion to argue that any warrantless GPS tracking violates the Fourth Amendment.
Sotomayor embraced both the trespass and privacy expectation arguments in Jones because she saw the limits of both and wanted the court to remain flexible enough to account for ever-developing technology, Sack said.
In contrast, Scalia's reliance on the trespass concept was an attempt to "take a step backwards" in interpreting constitutional privacy rights, she said.
Scalia claimed to be supplementing the reasonable expectation of privacy test of 1967's Katz v. U.S., not substituting for it, but that was likely because Scalia used the Katz test himself not long ago," Sack said.
In 2001, Scalia wrote the opinion of the court in Kyllo v. U.S., holding that police officers' use of thermal imaging to obtain details they would not otherwise have discovered without entering homes violated the Fourth Amendment based on homeowners' reasonable expectation of privacy, Sack said.
"It's hard for him to step away from the Katz test because of Kyllo," she said. "And I do think that Scalia's opinion raises concerns because he seems to be focusing on physical intrusion as opposed to the more important conceptual privacy concerns."
Whereas Pincus said the questions raised by Jones could spur congressional action, Sack predicted that the court will be on the lookout for more cases in which to continue to interpret contemporary Fourth Amendment rights.
Immediate effect
Deputy Public Defender Barbara Hurst said though she knew of no Rhode Island cases addressing the constitutionality of GPS tracking, Jones makes it clear that police need a warrant in situations in which there is "any physical touching or attaching of a GPS device to property."
But Hurst said the question of warrantless GPS tracking without any physical contact, such as monitoring someone's location via cell phone tracking, remains an open question.
Hurst said she would "certainly analogize to Jones to argue that such tracking is a violation of the Fourth Amendment," but acknowledged that the success of that argument could depend on how long police tracked a suspect.
When the court discussed the reasonable expectation of privacy, they emphasized the duration of the tracking, she noted.
Hurst added that she would be surprised to find police attempting searches without warrants in Rhode Island where Article I, Section 6, of the state constitution includes greater protections against unnecessary search and seizure than the U.S. Constitution.
"Section 6 says that all warrants have to be in writing," Hurst said. "I think Rhode Island defense attorneys who encounter warrantless GPS tracking would be well advised to look at both constitutions."
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