LUMIX L10 - announced

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13 hours ago, kye said:

I missed your point about it being in the S9 chassis, but that makes total sense and gives a lot of hope for a GX10, as if they can fit a FF IBIS sensor assembly in there they should be able to fit a MFT IBIS sensor assembly in there too.

If they announced one of those I'd be very tempted to pre-order one.  I'm super happy with the images from my GH7 but the size is cumbersome for a lot of things, and my GX85 still softly calls to me because of the form-factor.  Once you add a large lens to it the difference becomes less significant of course, but there are lots of small lenses.

This is the GX85 vs the GH7 (they haven't put the L10 in yet) but it shows my general point:

Looking at the size this way really does show the genius of the LX100 and L10.  

This is the LX100 vs the GX85, but the GX85 has the 12-35mm F2.8 lens, which not only is MUCH larger than the LX100 (open and closed), but the lens is 1.5 stops SLOWER at the wide end than the one in the LX100 and L10!!

In order to get an MFT camera to match / surpass the LX100 / L10 lens, you need to go to the 10-25mm F1.7 lens, which isn't a fair test as it's wider and constant F1.7, but the size difference is....  stunning.

The more I think about it, the more I realise the F1.7-2.8 lens and GH7 sensor combo really an 80% combo, where with its speed and aperture and the GH7s ISO performance, for general travel / family / hobby / creator / vlogging / etc stuff you'll only really miss the odd situation here or there where you'd wish for something more.
This is absolutely in contrast to the other little cameras I've looked at (the Sony ZV-1 comes to mind) where as soon as you go inside or after the sun sets the image turns to mush with the poor ISO performance, plus the DR of the GH7 sensor will seriously embarrass lots of the alternative options too.  This is because most of them are just old, but that seems to be the state of the market for these smallest options.

I'm not really sure what the current alternatives are for the L10, but happy to hear if someone wants to make a list...

Sounds like you should be on the lookout for a used LX100?