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Seems like the decent prosumer compacts are here with the LX3
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 Digital Camera – Review – The Imaging Resource!
The Panasonic LX3’s noise handling is significantly improved over the LX2. Noise performance was the single biggest issue with the LX2, its Achilles heel. On the Panasonic LX3, we’ve had a change of image processors [...]

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This is coming out in October, but is a pretty big update. A reason to wait before buying a LX-3, I think. Popphoto had the notice. The previous G9 did get very good reviews (it is 12MP vs. the 15MP in the new G10)

14.7 megapixels (wow!)
28-140mm 5x zoom
3 inch LCD

RAW support
The biggest advantage of [...]

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Well here are the choices right now in rough order and the net is that if you can hold off, the Canon G10 is probably good. I’d say for quality the LX3 is probably going to give higher quality shot but be larger.

Panasonic DMC-LX3. Good quality to ISO 400 and great Leica lense. Reasonably compact. [...]

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While SLRs are getting incredible, the whole compact end is stagnant. Even with a 14 megapixel sensor, the small size means they are noisy and getting a decent shot at ISO 400 is nearly impossible. That plus slow lenses means I really don’t like the quality. This is a semi-professional camera much like the [...]

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Slideshows on the Mac are confusing because iPhoto, iDVD and iMovie can all make them, so what should use when. Here’s a guide:
iPhoto ‘08 for quick and dirty on the screen slideshows
First this is confusingly actually iPhoto ‘08 , version 7.0 (why couldn’t they just bump the version to match the date?). This is the [...]

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