A couple of street shots from my last visit to London (Sept, 2022) I decided to take my Lumix LX100 compact just for the convenience of travelling light. It’s a very capable camera (though just a tool, the photographer is the real instrument) as long as you don’t start cropping. I’ve gone right off cropping, I love the discipline of getting it right at the moment of taking, which is in itself a form of cropping, you can only take a small frame of the complete scene with a camera. The cropping and creativity starts the moment you frame the image via the camera.
I only have one complaint about the LX100, the flash that comes with the camera seems flimsy, not built to last and they often don’t mine stopped working soon after I got it. After doing some research online I discovered it’s a common problem and people are using an Olympus flash unit as a replacement, the FL-LM3. But it needs modifying to fit and work on the camera, the part of the flash unit that slides onto the hot shoe is too long for the contacts to match up. There are some Utube vids of people using sandpaper to take it down a bit, I thought there must be a cleaner, simpler way of doing it. I used a sharp craft knife and simply scraped off layers until it was a good fit, using the original flash unit as a template.
It’s a lot better than the original flash, it also has tilt and swivel capability which the original one doesn’t. I often like a bit of flash for outdoor street portraits, as fill in light or just to make the colours pop.
