Jan Böhme wrote:

Daniel Silevitch skrev:



DPReview put up a fairly comprehensive review a couple of days ago:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicFZ50/



It was pretty positive, and ended with a Highly recommended rating,



I do not understand how a Highly recommended rating equates to a
statement of negative image quality. It seems that the purpose of
photography is to create images and not how great the camera is that
makes them. If you cannot get the best images than who cares how nice
the camera works.

though with a notice that this was only just so, and that the one
negative factor was image quality - not noise this time, as much as
indiscriminate noise reduction..

However, something like half of the Panasonic forum at dpreview are up
in arms against this review. It would seem as if The Camera To Worship
in this forum is the FZ30, and lots of people there took it really
personal when that one missed the Highly Recommended rating by a hair's
breadth a year ago. Thus, the more positive rating of the FZ50 now, is
widely regarded as a Grossly Unfair Injustice to The Camera To Worship.

Queer lot, photographers.

Jan Böhme
(FZ20 owner, thus neutral in the conflict)