Howdy from Italy!
It has been a while since I updated my blog but internet is not that reliable in Amore country

I have taken my LX3 for a good work-out in Rome – lots of SLR shooters here and I am feeling somewhat circumsized without long lens and big bodies…
I mainly tried to focus on panoramas down here. Rome is a maze of narrow streets and it is hard to frame something without lots of tourist heads peaking in the frame. So it is either close ups or the wide vistas from up high. I shot mainly the latter one, partly because the LX3 really lacks a proper zoom (only 2.5x) and it is hard to isolate anything.

The below shot has been taken from the top level of the famous Colosseum. It is a three image panorama, stitched in PS CS4, taken handheld.

I am amazed by the quality of the raws, this little camera produces. I gave it a basic touch up in Lightroom (opened up the shadows a little to lower the overal contrast which was too high). Looking at it at 100% you can certainly see the difference between it and my D300, but I seriously doubt that you could see it in print.