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List Price: $349.95
By: Panasonic - Model: DMC-FZ7K
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Features:
- Leica DC Vario-Element Lens System with 11 elements in 8 groups (3 aspherical lenses/3 aspherical surfaces)
- 12x Optical zoom (equivalent to 36mm to 432mm on a 35mm film camera lens) with aperture of F2.8 to 3.3 & 4x digital zoom
- Compact 6mp camera with Mega Optical Image Stabilization which addresses "anti-blu" of hand & subject movement
- LSI Venus engine II handles image processing, LCD functions, & writing to the memory card simultaneously for incredible responsiveness
- Five software packages included, comes with battery charger& pack, 16MB Sd memoery card, AV cable, USB connection cable, AC cable, strap, CD Rom, Lens cap, lens hood, & lens hood adaptor
Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 141
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Pretty good for the price 3 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this camera to replace my canon POS, because it has a lot of pro features and was - well, cheap. And you get what you pay for: the lens and the zoom are great (Leica), the features overflowing; but *alas* even at ISO 80 it's a really noisy image. Also, it tends to shoot too bright, so I have to underexpose by just a little. And no RAW, so no pro images.
A great trainer camera for a newbie exploring to see if a pro-cam is worthwhile, and I don't know if the Fz8 or 50 has a better sensor chip, but this one has kind of a crappy sensor chip, definite pixellation at full-sized without any tweaks. I spend a lot of time in Photoshop these days, and will likely replace it with a Canon instead of another Lumix.
good camera great pictures 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a fine camera, light, small, great zoom and stabilization. Battery life is also good.
The negatives would be the manual focus is a bit tricky to master and the small size leaves your pinky finger with no room. The other negative was the high ISO setting is a bit obtuse as you have to go to scene mode to engage it.
Lens caps seem to get lost as well.
The light weight makes it a bit unstable at long zooms. Michelle Ress USA