For this first shot we activated Live View, flipped the L10’s screen out and held the camera as high as possible. This allowed us to easily frame the shot and capture the boats behind the sail, which have been obscured on recent Cameralabs galleries taken at normal height. As you’d hope at 100 ISO, the crops are detailed and noise-free, and impressively, there’s no fringing despite the high contrast surface of the yacht. The crops do however appear a little soft.

Landscape: 4.59MB, Program, 1/250, f7.1, ISO 100, 14-50mm at 14mm (equivalent to 28mm)

						This second shot was taken again in live View with the screen flipped-out, but this time turned upwards, allowing us to comfortably frame the shot just a few cm above the ground, without having to lie down. Live View with the flip out screen gives you enormous flexibility. As before the crops are very clean and detailed, but again there’s a lack of ultimate sharpness – this is something you’ll see with the L10’s default settings. We felt it could benefit from a slight boost in the sharpening.

Landscape: 4.67MB, Program, 1/10, f3.8, ISO 100, 14-50mm at 14mm (equivalent to 28mm)

The lens stabilisation allowed us to easily handhold this shot though without camera shake being a worry, while the slower shutter has effectively blurred the water.

Taking a close look at the crops reveals plenty of detail.

The L10 easily locked-onto the subject and ensured she was in sharp focus.

The crops at an increased sensitivity of 200 ISO still look clean and detailed, but slightly soft. The L10 can stomach an increase in the sharpening.

As before, the crops are detailed and the increase in sensitivity hasn’t had a detrimental effect in this particular, well-lit composition.

This indoor shot was also taken at 400 ISO, but in much dimmer surroundings.

Shadow areas or those of flat colour reveal a sprinkling of very fine noise, but it’s nothing that would bother most people. There’s still plenty of detail recorded.

The incandescent lighting in this shot fools many cameras, but we’d have to say the L10 has delivered a more orangey result than most.

For this second indoor shot we increased the sensitivity to 800 ISO. Even then the very dim conditions resulted in a shutter speed of 1/15, but this was well within the stabilisation capabilities of the lens.

Crops taken from dimmer areas, such as around the clock, reveal an increase in noise and processing, but there’s still a decent amount of detail recorded in other areas, such as the beer labels.

There’s still a fair amount of detail in there, but you’d only really want to use this for smaller prints.