Juan, A lot of Leica M photogs are, and have used, the Panasonic Lumix. There results, at least on the web and with the few printed pics I've seen, are quite good. You may go here: http://www.leica-camera.com/cgi-bin/discus_e/discus.pl and poke around as a guest. Right now there's a thread going on about the DMC-LX1
Leica and Panasonic have partnered on digi cameras for quite some time, with Panasonic providing the bodies and electronics and Leica providing - what else? - the glass. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Juan Buhler > I was thinking that I'd like to try one of the new high resolution P&S > cameras for street shooting. There are now 6Mp and 8Mp compact point > and shoots, and it is tempting to get one to play with in the > street... > > The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 even has a RAW mode, and at 3:2 the images > are higher res than the ones from the istD:

