New and Sexy Accessory For My Camera Panasonic LUMIX LX3

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I’ve been a Lumix LX3 user for many moons now. So far, I am happy with the result and photos. Probably 90% of the photos taken in this blog were taken by this handy camera since October 2009.

Here’s a review of LUMIX LX3 and sample photos.

Today, I want to add some accesories to this camera. Hell yeahhh New toys, I like!

You see, the lens cap that comes with the original bundle is very mafan. Every time I need to take photo, I have to remove the lens cap and the cap will swing ah… swing ah.. swing ah…. and people always get hypnotized (like in the movies).

I say, “Come, smile for me please”… they really smile. The swing lens works.

My hypnotization skill has improved drastically. However, it’s too mafan to remove it.. and put back.. and remove.. and put back. You get what I mean lah.

So I online and search for solution—seems like I am not only LX3 user who has this problem. And there’s a simple solution to this matter. Buy a retractable lens cap!

This lens cap is not made specially for LX3, but it fits the size perfectly. Hohohoho.

Now my LX3 is like a camera on steroid. Looks like Transformer more than a camera. Hahaha.

I have to give my camera a name liao.. the action of lens pushes out the lens cap is like little Alien popping out from human stomach—I want to name my camera like that. Is there a vocabulary that suits?

Lens popping out in slow motion. You follow the numbers 1,2,3,4. Then reverse 4,3,2,1… then 1,2,3,4, then 4,3,2,1… and repeat.

Can you feel it? can you? can you?

Ohhhhh yeah, that’s sexy right.

This is how my camera looks like after zooming all out. The lens cap is half way closed, looks can be deceiving. If you see my camera pointing at you like that, you better run, cause I am trying to take photos of your acne.

According to LX3 community, this lens cap will leave a vignette spot if you try to zoom the lens (the further you zoom, the more lens retracts). Which means, the photo is “blocked” by 3 pieces of the lens cap, like illustrated above, leaving 3 dark corners.

I was expecting to soft-mod the lens cap to solve the problem. Seems like everything is working fine so far, wooooo!

Here’s an example: A photo sample taken outside my room. No zoom.

Example: Fully zoomed, with not vignettes on corners. Which surprises me, wohooo! this is excellent.

You can find this Ricoh LC-1 lens at Yamiya.com and Shashinki.com. I bought mine at Yamiya.com because they can send next business day. Which arrives my door 36 hours later.

Uhm, I do not know how to end this post…. so… that’s it. Buhbye. haha.

On a side note: I am going Taiwan next month and I will bring this camera with me, without any doubt! Going to take photos with many many many many many many 台妹.

我愛台妹 台妹愛我, sha lalalalaaa~ /sing