{"id":2993,"date":"2007-03-09T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/flash-bang-wallop\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T03:02:22","slug":"flash-bang-wallop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/flash-bang-wallop\/","title":{"rendered":"flash bang wallop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rather taken with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2. Not merely does it look like a proper camera, it doesn&#8217;t handle like a gimmicky electronic toy. I love the wide-aspect images, and it stores all the EXIF information I need for panoramas. I could do without the proprietary USB\/video connector, and it would have been really nice to have auto-bracket enabled on raw shooting for exploring HDR images, but it is not a huge deal. Neatest basic function is the ability to view your pics as a calendar, each day opening up the ones you took then. Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Barnack&#8217;s ghost is probably troubled by the use of the Leica name on such a frivolous device. I will be able to claim the famed &#8220;leica glow&#8221; on my shots now, though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that this camera is targeted towards the sophisticated grandpa. It&#8217;s able to track the ages of two children, so your pictures can be tagged as being of Baby X at age Y. Useless? Well, someone could use it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh okay &#8230; some photos are here: <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/gallery\/v\/lumix_lx2\/\">http:\/\/scruss.com\/gallery\/v\/lumix_lx2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rather taken with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2. Not merely does it look like a proper camera, it doesn&#8217;t handle like a gimmicky electronic toy. I love the wide-aspect images, and it stores all the EXIF information I need for panoramas. I could do without the proprietary USB\/video connector, and it would have been really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[29,54,55],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-camera","tag-lumix","tag-lx2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Mh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}