FOLLOWING UP ON YESTERDAY’S POST about megapixels and marketing, I ran across this review of the Panasonic LX-3, which says: “Panasonic has taken a brave stand with the LX3, deciding not to increase the new camera’s resolution above 10-megapixels, snubbing the race for ever-higher pixel counts, arguably at the expense of image quality. Panasonic has actually created a new, large, 1/1.63-inch, 10.1-megapixel sensor ‘super high sensitivity multi-aspect CCD’ for this camera.” Yes, as noted yesterday, boosting megapixels often leads to poorer image quality. With a better sensor and a Leica lens, I suspect that this camera will deliver better images than a lot of higher-megapixel cameras. I also like it that it’s got a wide-angle lens; most small cameras offer more telephoto than you need, while not going as wide as you often want in close quarters, where they’re more often used.