Beautiful stuff Stan. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing these previously. The last shot of the bride and groom really stuck in my memory.
I fundamentally agree with everything you've written about the LX7. I love almost everything about it and can't wait for the day they design the identical camera a slightly larger body with the 1" sensor from the RX100.
BUT, I have to admit that as much as I like this little camera, I'm back into my typical compact conundrum - I almost never actually USE IT!
Particularly now that we have cameras like the Nikon Coolpix A and Ricoh GR that are the same size (notably smaller, actually, because of the retracting lenses), I'd just about always rather have a similarly pocketable APS camera than a 1/1.7" sensor camera, no matter how great the feature set and how sublime it is in use. There's the issue of the zoom, and you've used it nicely here. But I almost never shoot with zooms on my other cameras and tend not to think like a zoom. I like to get locked into a focal length and just go with it. Zooms confuse me - they give me too many choices. Obviously there are times when a zoom makes a LOT of sense, but my bottom line is I don't enjoy them enough to take advantage of them enough, at which point a fixed lens 28mm in a smaller camera with a WAY larger sensor just makes more sense to me. In the month that I had a Nikon, I had it with me a huge amount of the time. I've never used the LX7 or any other camera that way before.
-Ray
Interesting I'm about complete opposite!
Since I got my G10 my Oly E-P3 gets little use because it can't go in my jacket pocket on my walk to work etc. Similarly as regards compact category, to me what's the point of a compact without a zoom? A prime sounds nice in theory, but for me is too restricting as I want the versatility to go wide and then be able to optically crop the scene without loss of quality - I usually can see one or more detail shots inside the "big picture". If it wasn't for compact zoom cameras I'd be frustrated lugging around a body and multiple lenses ...
Vive la difference!