Dimensions：(W x H x D) 129 x 85 x 60 mm
Weight：106g
The DMW-CLX3 is difficult to find. Some ebay sellers will send it to you straight from Japan. I was lucky enough to get it here in France trough a person who ordered 3 of them from Japan by mistake and resoled them for less. Less meaning less then the crazy 120 dollars you are currently paying for the case on ebay. Pretty expensive but pretty effective. Good protection, minimal space consuming and a nice leather feel.
After a few days of use I have one annoying aspects to point out. You have to unmount the case each time when you want to:
a - connect your camera to your computer
b - take the SD card out
c - recharge your battery
Basic manipulations require the unmount of the case. A turnaround to the connectivity issue would be to use one of these Eye-Fi SD cards that will transmit your images to your computer wirelessly. If I get in touch with one sometime soon I will test it with the LX3.
The DMW-CLX3 case is really nice and feels really like the dedicated case for the LX3. It's is too expensif to my taste but the design feels like the authentic cases of old film cameras and this really ads that little extra touch to the already amazing LX3.
The design of the case can be improved, to fit a more quick digital use. Maybe by keeping access to the USB and battery compartment, somehow. I will come up demonstrating video of the DMW-CLX3 case really soon.
6 comments:
Nice! I agree that it's expensive and hard to find.
Good thing I have a friend who's in Japan this week for a business trip. Hopefully, she'll be able to get one for me.
17th street photo has a few of these in stock (black leather only) now. I stopped by their store in NYC yesterday to pick one up while I was in town for work and got it for $98. I saw that they had a few more on display (3-4 maybe).
i don't quite understand the criticism about having to take the camera out of the case to access the sd card or battery. does anyone recall being able to change film with one of these type cases in place back in the day?......me neither
When the camera is in the case, what do you have to do before you can take a photo?
(See my other comment on the video post)
Panasonic's site says that it "lets you shoot instantly while the case is still attached to the camera", is that really true?
Here's a photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minami/2852218219/
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