One of the cameras that I wish I have purchased many years ago was the Panasonic Lumix LX5. It came out in 2008, I just graduated and started working on a lousy engineer's salary in Malaysia and I could not afford one. I have always been curious about what the LX5 can do, I have heard so many positive things about the camera. Now in 2026, I found a used unit in the marketplace at such a cheap price, though in quite a banged up condition. It is still fully functional so I brought it out for some shutter therapy. It was so fun shooting with something truly compact in form factor, yet the camera was capable of delivering great results. Panasonic used to make such amazing little compact cameras. It is too bad that they have discontinued the LX series, but I think it is the right time to revive it, Panasonic should definitely bring compact cameras back! There is a huge demand for it, why not? I made a video to talk about the Panasonic LX5 here (click).
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