We used the built-in lenses at their widest and longest focal lengths and with various apertures. The crops are taken from the extreme lower left corner of the chart and presented here at 100%.

Zoomed-out to wide angle, the LX2 delivers excellent corner sharpness throughout its full aperture range, even in the far corners of its 16:9 frame. As expected, the results are slightly softer with the aperture wide open or fully closed, but even then they’re still very good.

Zoomed-in to its telephoto end, the LX2 is noticeably soft in both its 16:9 and 4:3 crops with the aperture wide open, but closing it even slightly greatly improves the results. So while the sweet-spots at wide and telephoto are in the middle of the aperture range, the results remain good throughout.

Note: crop details which appear smaller here are due to them being captured with lower resolution cameras and / or a lens which couldn’t focus as close to the chart. In each case though, the crop still represents the extreme left corner of each camera’s frame.