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performs far better than expected
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I recently bought this Panasonic FZ7 digital camera for £80.00 from e-bay! The camera is typical of this type of "bridge" compact camera, and although it's got an easy to use "auto" mode which lets you just switch on and start taking photos straightaway, you need to read at least some of the manual to get the best from it. I downloaded and printed out a manual. The Panasonic FZ7 gives excellent, crisp photos in good light, with very little "noise." It is light to carry and yet feels solid in you hands. It has a good hand grip. The lens cap is a little fiddly to fit, as is the anti glare hood. Once you get used to fitting these, they are OK. I cannot comment on battery life as mine came with a used battery (I have just ordered two new ones - with a bigger capacity - for £8.59p). I found that if when fully charged, I switch off the charger (leaving the battery in), leave for a minute then switch it back on, it seems to give the battery much more of a full charge! Battery then lasts for a full day of taking photos. The camera has plenty of manual control over aperture, shutter speed and picture quality - enough to satisfy a keen amateur photographer! It's a great way to learn about photography, and I'm very pleased with the FZ7!Read full review
As a beginner this is an ideal camera, the picture quality is good especially close up, has lots of features of which i need to get my head round but using the instruction manual and a bit of trial and error i'll get there, i thought it may be quite heavy but its not and i do feel its great value for money.
PROS: I bought the camera used from ebay and it is a great camera with excellent resutls and even in the dark its super.It is light and very easy to use. The zoom and auto focus is superb. ecellent picture quality and at just 6 megapixels its surely a great camera. I know we would like to use higher pixel cameras I have used the 14.1 MP as well but we always have to resize the photos to email or post. But its still far better than most of the new cameras. FLASH is like day in dark and you wont tell if it was dark in the room with lights off when the picture is taken. CONS: Can only hold upto aa 2 GB SD card MAX, I saw the later 7.1 MP FZ8 which is free from this limitation and you can use 8 GB SDHC card as well which is great. 2 GB card at normal quality can hold 2400 photos and 1 hour of movie. In the finest mode it will only hold 106 photos and 23 minutes of video Higly recommended still, but if you can get a better deal go for the FZ8 if you want to hold more memory.Read full review
I am not great with "tech " but even i am getting good results with the Lumix , the zoom function is amazing ,so far i am very please ,there are a lot more functions than i am currently using but a month in & very happy
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