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Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Just bought the DMC-FZ20 to replace a Fuji FP4900Zoom and the inital
impressions are interesting. Firstly, it makes me realise how advanced the 4900Zoom was in 2000 when it was introduced. The 4900Zoom ergonomics were/are excellent - although the FZ20 is good, I find the location of the EVF a strange one being at the far left side of the camera - the LCD gets smudged by ones nose!! The Fuji has one more choice of file compression in the highest resolution, it also had 2 locations to operate the zoom. Fuji has little things like a lanyard on the lens cap and a dedicated case which used the camera strap, and not another strap on the case. The FZ20 does however that amazing stabilised Leica lens and the double the zoom of the Fuji. I wait with interest the quality of some pics - first impressions are good. |
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Rob wrote:
Fuji has little things like a lanyard on the lens cap My main quibble with the FZs, apart from the terrible neck strap! pete -- "Send lawyers, guns and money...." |
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In article , Pete Fenelon
wrote: Fuji has little things like a lanyard on the lens cap My main quibble with the FZs, apart from the terrible neck strap! Can't you buy little stick-on lanyards? I leave the lens adaptor/hood on semi-permanently and have replaced the supplies cap with a generic 72mm one. -- YAnewsWatcher. |
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Is the Panasonic FZ20, overall, the best Point and Shoot 5-7MP camera on
the market today. Is 5MP enough to do a 30% to 40% crop and print a sharp 8.5x11? Is the Leica lense on the Panasonic that much better than the competition? I do know of Leica's reputation on cameras and their own slr lenses. YAnewswatcher wrote: In article , Pete Fenelon wrote: Fuji has little things like a lanyard on the lens cap My main quibble with the FZs, apart from the terrible neck strap! Can't you buy little stick-on lanyards? I leave the lens adaptor/hood on semi-permanently and have replaced the supplies cap with a generic 72mm one. |
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measekite wrote: Is the Panasonic FZ20, overall, the best Point and Shoot 5-7MP camera on the market today. Is 5MP enough to do a 30% to 40% crop and print a sharp 8.5x11? Do not know. Is the Leica lense on the Panasonic that much better than the competition? I do know of Leica's reputation on cameras and their own slr lenses. Believe so - the comparison resolution pics at dpreview.com shows that it resolves to greater detail than some of the opposition. See http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicfz20/page8.asp. |
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measekite wrote:
Is the Panasonic FZ20, overall, the best Point and Shoot 5-7MP camera on the market today. It depend what you want to do with it! Do you want very wide-angle shooting, an articulated LCD, a very small camera, or 640 x 480 movies? Then, no, as it doesn't offer those features. Do you want an image stabilised long zoom camera with a top-quality f/2.8 lens? Then yes. Is 5MP enough to do a 30% to 40% crop and print a sharp 8.5x11? Your question about prints begs the question: what do you mean by sharp? I have seen good A4 sized prints from 3.2MP cameras, so cropping 35% of the pixels from a 5MP image should be OK. That's a 17% linear crop. David |
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"Pete Fenelon" wrote in message ... Rob wrote: Fuji has little things like a lanyard on the lens cap My main quibble with the FZs, apart from the terrible neck strap! I hope you didn't buy it just for the neck strap. You forgot to snipe about the off center tripod hole and the lack of a swivel LCD. I personally bought it for the quality of the optics, the IS and the beautiful f2.8 12x zoom lens. I can forgive them the mediocre neck strap and the lack of lens cap tether. |
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"Ken" writes:
"Pete Fenelon" wrote in message ... Rob wrote: Fuji has little things like a lanyard on the lens cap My main quibble with the FZs, apart from the terrible neck strap! I hope you didn't buy it just for the neck strap. You forgot to snipe about the off center tripod hole and the lack of a swivel LCD. I personally bought it for the quality of the optics, the IS and the beautiful f2.8 12x zoom lens. I can forgive them the mediocre neck strap and the lack of lens cap tether. My main quibble has always been the external flash interface -- when you shoot in manual mode (which you need to do with non-TTL flashes), the EVF/LCD reflects the actual aperture you select (ie, f/4, f/5.6, etc.) which means it is very dark, and hard to frame. A secondary quibble is the placement of the memory door in the battery compartment, which means you have to remove the camera from the flash bracket or tripod just to change memory cards. Having the tripod screw that close to the battery door means you can't use any of the standard quick release adaptors. It also would be nice to have a less aggresive JPG compression. -- Michael Meissner email: http://www.the-meissners.org |
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"Michael Meissner" wrote in message ... My main quibble has always been the external flash interface -- when you shoot in manual mode (which you need to do with non-TTL flashes), the EVF/LCD reflects the actual aperture you select (ie, f/4, f/5.6, etc.) which means it is very dark, and hard to frame. Yes, it would be nice if the display gained up in low light situations. The darkend display is actually a design "feature" that backfired on them. A secondary quibble is the placement of the memory door in the battery compartment, which means you have to remove the camera from the flash bracket or tripod just to change memory cards. Having the tripod screw that close to the battery door means you can't use any of the standard quick release adaptors. I solved the tripod hole problem by making a simple adapter. I can keep a tripod quick release plate on the camera and still change the battery or memory card. Still have to take the camera off the tripod but at least I don't have to remove the quick release plate. http://ken.smugmug.com/photos/17316489-L.jpg There is a guy on ebay that is selling a FZ-20 tripod adapter for $12. Not quite as versatile as the one I designed but better than nothing. http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZrobobear |
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