The wide-angle, bright aperture 14.1MP beauty from Panasonic.

If the DMC-LX5 will stretch your budget or your patience, fear not: Panasonic has the DMC-FX700 to bridge the gap between the LX5 and all other cameras running engines not named for Attic love deities.
The FX700 will run the Venus engine FHD,

separating chromatic noise from luminance noise and applying the optimal noise reduction to each

which probably means it’s better at calculus than I ever will be. Or want to be. It also means that it should process image areas dynamically based on the detection of faces and the background. Wowie. In addition to that they’ve put a Leica DC-Vario Summicron 4.3mm-21.5mm f/2.2 lens in it. Sounds a little short until you consider it’s equivalent in 35mm format – 24-120mm. Sounds better and better.

It’ll support SDXC format, so kudos for Panasonic looking to the future there. It’s also sporting a 3.0″ TFT touch screen LCD with 230,000 dots. Holy 14.1MP, Batman, the FX700 is gonna be cool.