The following images were taken with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 fitted with the G VARIO 20mm f1.7 lens. Unless otherwise stated, the GF1 was set to Program mode with Large Fine JPEG quality, Auto White Balance, Multiple Metering, and with its Standard Film Mode (the default setting for contrast, saturation and sharpening). Neither the body nor the lens we used featured stabilisation.

The individual exposure mode, file sizes, shutter speeds, aperture, ISO and lens focal length are listed for each image.

The crops are taken from the original files, reproduced at 100% and saved in Adobe Photoshop CS4 as JPEGs with the default Very High quality preset, while the resized images were made in Photoshop CS4 and saved with the default High quality preset.

The three crops are typically taken from far left, central and far right portions of each image.

Note: you may wish to open a number of galleries for direct comparison of detail and noise: Olympus E-P1 sample images, Canon PowerShot G11 sample images, Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 sample images, Canon EOS 500D / Rebel T1i sample images, Nikon D90 sample images and Sigma DP1 sample images.