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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Impressed, 24 Jul 2009
Ok, I bought this camera a few months ago and decided to choose panasonic due to the fact they probably make the best compact cameras in my opinion. I was looking for a camera that could be used for many occasions as well as shooting the odd video. The camera is very suitable for what I needed; having the ability to shoot video in 720p (standard Hi-definition) and to select from a vast list of presets including landscape, portrait, night, sunset as well as some very interesting original ones including food, party, pet, candle light etc.
Viewing photos and videos is very easy with the flick of a switch located on the top right hand side of the camera and in almost an instant. The quality is superb due to a Leica 28mm lens, and provides very, very clear photos; better than a your standard camera and almost at basic DSLR level.
The camera also provides a manual setting which can be fun to use if you are new to manual photography and have no or little experience with DSLR's. It is a good way to improve on standard automatic mode which doesn't always get things perfect, but I would say 95% of the time does!! This is thanks to a feature on all panasonic cameras and camcorders called Intelligent Auto(iA). Put it on this, and you'll end the day with some superb looking shots. Half pressing the shutter button, and the camera will bring the subject into focus and can be finalised by completely pressing the shutter button down. This also helps with face detection, which is very useful, and almost certainly improves and people in the picture.
The optical zoom is very useful at 3.6X, which is nothing special in compact camera terms but it still maintains its high picture quality whilst in optical zoom mode. The camera can also extend this to 7.7X, but this reduces the picture quality to only 3 megapixels, compromising the quality quite a lot.
Although the camera has a massive Megapixel count, I would not buy the camera solely on this feature. Any camera around 8/9 megapixels should produce good clear images as long as there is a good lens present!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Pictures Fab Camera, 9 April 2009
I had this camara for my Birthday and love it. I have taken loads of great Pictures and am really pleased with them. I display my pictures in a 10" hp digital photo frame its like looking out of the window! The camera display is very good and i was suprised how small the camera was. easy to use with great Picture quality what more could i want. a camera bag to protect it!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good camera for its size...., 19 Aug 2009
Having owned a canon G9 for over a year and loving every moment of it, the little panasonic had some pretty big shoes to step into... Firstly I should explain, my G9 broke a few weeks ago and I decided to go for a super compact instead of the G10.... Ok back to the fx150...
First impressions were not good, the noise is a major issue, even at iso 100 which is the lowest you can set... The camera also suffers a little from a limited dynamic range, but to be honest its no worse than my G9 or my friends G10 which I'll go into in a minute. The panasonic has very few issues aside from the noise, but to be honest after playing with it in depth for a week, I decided turning all picture setting to -2, which I assume means no enhancememnt, this includes turning off the noise reduction, insane you may think, but no... Turn all enhancements off and save as high quality jpeg and the pictures are very controlled, quite nutural, yet saturation, contrast and sharpness is really good... I really have no idea why panasonic set the default to anything but -2... I found pretty much all the preset settings and "intelligent" controls are fairly useless and now, like with my G9, all pictures are taken using the raw format and then processed with lightroom or photoshop cs4, which gives trully amazing pictures. Trust me, try this and you can really see the limitations with jpeg images on this camera... With raw, all the colours are amazing, easily as good if not slightly better than my G9 or indeed my friends G10...
So why pay more for the G10? Firstly, after spending two whole days (company time, please dont tell) testing the images from the fx150 and the G10, came to the conclusion, the G10 produces far more detailed images, the G10's images are so sharp and defined you can actually zoom into every pixel with ease, the panasonic on the other hand despite being the same resolution does have signs of fade and antialiasing and the highlights are not as sharp without adding noise, but this is due to me turning all the picture setting to -2... However the difference is only really noticable when zoomed into the pictures to pixel level and not by much at all... Noise with the G10 set to iso 100 is about the same, but the canon does have iso 80 option which has way less noise... ok so why did I not buy the G10? Its as simple as this, the G10 is massive, its a lot more money and I actually feel the panasonic produces more sensitive pictures, perhaps the search for pixel perfection is a mistake after all who is ever going to print images large enough to show off 14.7 million pixels. So in my opinion despite loving my G9 and wanting the G10, the panasonic is the better choice... Its tiny, its easy to carry and to use, its picture quality when adjusted and mastered is actually really good and it looks cool. I think when I need the better pic quality, instead of going for the bridge option (e.g G10) I'll just buy a dslr... A compact is what it is, its a compact camera, its never going to be as great as an slr and the panasonic lumix fx150 is a great compact camera...
I would highly recommend this camera to anyone familiar with raw post production and who want a great camera in a tiny package...
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