Panasonic LC-1

As many of you know... this is the equivalent of the Leica digital rangefinder but made by Panasonic.

 

Quick question: After taking a picture and turning to preview mode... have any of you users had any

issues with the preview image (and the image recorded on disk) turning into a strange coloring? The

coloring is almost a purplish, blue hue.

 

Very hard to describe the coloring! :(

 

This has now happened on two different cameras.

 

Thanks in advance for any info.

 

Cheers

That camera ain't no rangefinder--it's a bonafide dSLR

 

but as for the coloring, odds are that you have the white-balance set to an incorrect setting; e.g. "Florescent" when you should use "Daylight."

Erik,

 

Whatever you want to call it is fine with me. :)

 

Nope, white balance has tested... as I said, it's a weird coloring... almost irridescent in

color. It isn't daylight under florescent conditions. That would give you a cyan cast!

 

Cheers

Erik,

 

Whatever you want to call it is fine with me. :)

 

Nope, white balance has been tested and re-set to factory settings... as I said, it's a weird

coloring... almost irridescent in color. It certainly isn't "daylight under florescent"

conditions. That would give you a cyan cast!

 

Cheers

Is it really an "SLR?" Single lens, maybe, but where's the "Reflex?"

The LC1 is not a DSLR, it's a fixed lens, 5Mpixel digicam with an EVF that's styled to look like

a rangefinder camera to a certain degree. The L1 is the DSLR ... again styled similarly but

quite a different camera in every way.

 

The LC1 (and its sibling, the Leica Digilux 2) are known to have sensor problems. Sounds like

you've seen two of them with this problem.

 

Godfrey

It is neither a rangefiner or an SLR. There were issues with the sensor and Panny is replacing them for free, even though it is out of warranty. The sensor in that camera may be bad,

There you have it. Any manufacturer can replace the sensor of any digtital camera . . . if it doesn't work. So, Leica can certainly replace everyone's M8 sensor in 4-5 years when a better sensor is available IF it is the same size as the one in the camera now. We'd all have to pay substantially for that, but why replace the rest of the M rangefinder?

Larry,

 

I think you are correct. But the M8 seems pretty good 'as is' from the pics I have seen. I wish I could afford one.

H-C,

 

The Panasonic (which is a DLSR, I have the Digilux 3) is sensible to the electronic noise around.

 

So, better is to shut your mobile phone...

 

Have you updated your firmware?