Here's Michael's comments on the L1A noise:
http://luminous-landscape.com/reviews/came...asonic-L1.shtml"The Achilles Heel of Panasonic sensors till now has been their noise. Even the company now admits that this was an area which needed work. And work they have. With the L1, and other Panasonic cameras introduced this third quarter of 2006, Panasonic has introduced its Venus III engine. This finally does the trick.
My subjective evaluation is that at ISO 100-200 the files are as clean as I've seen from any other camera. At ISO 400 a small amount of luminance noise starts to become visible. At ISO 800 there starts to be some chroma noise, but nothing that will be a problem in small prints. ISO 1600 chroma noise becomes quite noticeable and would require a third party noise reduction program for most uses."
Followed by his comments on the LX2 noise:
http://luminous-landscape.com/reviews/came...n-quick06.shtml"As can be seen below, ISO 100 is clean, though not without obvious smoothing artifacts when viewed at 100%. (All shots were taken with JPG settings to their lowest levels, and with no post processing). At ISO 200 noise is still suppressed, but artifacting starts to become more noticeable as detail continues to become smoothed over. By ISO 400 noise is evident, though not terrible, as is an even greater amount of detail smoothing and artifacting due to noise reduction (look at the eyelashes). ISO 800 is simply unacceptable to my eye, and 1600 isn't worth discussing."
Question: What are the noise differences between the two models when shooting in RAW at different ISOs?
