Originally posted by WPRESTO I will be a heretic. I had an LX and found it a bit fragile. My had multiple problems: sticky mirror, flash sync mechanism failed, cable release threads stripped out, rubber inserts on left top wheel came loose and refused to glue back down.
Sorry to hear.
My experience with the LX was completely opposite.
I bought one new, and got twenty years of hard use out of it,
in all weathers and in all sorts of locations, before switching to digital.
It collected a few dings along the way, but that did not affect the performance.
A big advantage of the LX over other cameras is the interchangeable viewfinder.
I had the little waist-level finder along with the standard prism,
and found it very handy for situations
(round corners, over fences or heads of people in a crowd, or for stealth shots)
where now we can use live view on a digital.
Contrary to some previous posters,
I didn't find the automatic exposure very good for what I needed,
and quickly settled on manual exposure setting.
The LX has default mechanical shutter settings that still work if the battery dies.
Compared to the big clunky digital cameras, it was perfect for travel,
especially with a 20/50/100mm kit of M lenses.