of course it is. google any leica lens and see for urself. enough said 

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Added on April 6, 2009, 3:43 pmgus, i found this. kinda cheap. u think they do postage to here in malaysia?

http://www.pinoyphotography.org/forum/inde...p?topic=39483.0

calculated the price for all 3 lenses. only around 520 and 991 for all lens+set-up ring+case+hotshoe cover+ricoh lc1 without any tax+postage cost.

so, can i translate it as,

F/2.0 = blur background
F/8.0 = clear background

??

You r correct.
But remember that using f/2.0 doesn't necessarily mean u will get bokeh for sure.
It depends also on where u "focus" also.
Playing with where u focus is another big step in understanding ur LX3's capabilities 

really?   what special Leica Lens with other Lens? mean what difference?

that could be the "Pandabase" Tube. the seller Fotobestbuy is from HK and had advertised in ebay.com
i'd purchased my tube+uv filter+hood+lens cap from him yesterday, now waiting the parcel to reach.

Ahaks glad it worked for you. But try to play around with the settings. lurk more around flickr and see their meta data (if possible) Thats the best way to learn in photography. Each settings needs to cater certain environment. I am also into street photography so i dont usually have the leisure of setting up tripods and long exposure.

Well there's a cheat code to a cleaner image but still using high iso. You can use Imagenomic's Noiseware to clean up noises generated by high iso.


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This picture is taken with iso 400 but a quick whip at Noiseware will drastically reduced the noises.

yea, im also into street photography. dont really hv the time to set up tripods n set this and that. i saw, i snap.but play with the settings when i need to la.lx3 is really a good point n shoot camera. never fail to impress me 

imagenomic noiseware? how abt photoshop's/corel paintshop's noise reducer? never tried it yet. have u?

Never tried photoshop/corel 's noise reducer. Will look it. iA is nice when used at properly lit place. Once in low light environment it tend to warm up the color and bump up the iso. So manual is the best way to play around.

Nice find. Im eyeing for this one http://products.lowepro.com/product/Toploa...Mini,2055,8.htm that way i dont have to take off my tube and wide lens

that could be the "Pandabase" Tube. the seller Fotobestbuy is from HK and had advertised in ebay.com
i'd purchased my tube+uv filter+hood+lens cap from him yesterday, now waiting the parcel to reach.

o.o after reading so much on the LX-3, kinda regret getting my FZ-18. when was this camera launched?

to explain what exactly makes leica is a good lens, im not really capable of. u can ask all of the other sifus here abt the spec of a leica lens/camera. but lets take example on other common sense in our life. asadi slippers and crocs slippers, why crocs are more expensive? burberry and and echo park? jaguar and proton? see my point? quality. precision. durability. capability etc.

where is this place bro? very nice views...