Panasonic’s brand new Lumix DMC-FZ50 features Optical Image Stabilizer to fight against the major cause of blurred images, unsteady hands. The DMC-FZ50 comes with a powerful 12x optical zoom f/2.8 LEICA DC lens, and a whopping 10.1-megapixel high resolution CCD for its image sensor. DPReview have posted their full review of the FZ50 and had this to write-
"And so, to sum up; for the serious user the FZ50 is without doubt the best equipped, best specified and best handling ‘bridge camera’ on the market today, and under the right conditions it produces superb output. It is a rewarding and enjoyable photographic tool that - once you’ve learned its quirks - offers a compact ‘all-in-one’ solution to anyone wanting a huge zoom range without all that lens changing and all that bulk. Inevitably this involves a certain amount of compromise; the smearing of fine, low contrast detail that is the hallmark of the Venus III engine limits the FZ50 to low ISO settings for any serious photography unless you’re happy to accept that you’ll never be able to produce big enlargements. For me this is an acceptable compromise, and - though I wish Panasonic would drop the megapixel race and concentrate on picture quality - it does produce excellent printed results. If this had been a mould-breaking 5 or 6 megapixel with excellent low noise performance throughout the ISO range (and particularly up to ISO 800) it would no doubt have performed considerably better and would have been an easy choice for a Highly Recommended. As it is it just squeezes in thanks to its many other outstanding qualities - and only for those users who can live without anything over ISO 200."
- 10.1-megapixel high resolution CCD
- LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT 12x optical zoom (35-420mm equiv.)
- MEGA O.I.S.(Optical Image Stabilizer) system
- Venus Engine III processor
- Full photographic control
- 2.0-inch flip-out 207k high resolution LCD
- High resolution electronic viewfinder
- Fast startup and operation
- TTL Flash hot-shoe
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackJoseph Simonis “gfweiwufuw888″ (wagburg CA USA)
After using lots of other cameras and not being satisfied I decided to try the fz50. Boy I was shocked! I was in the woods walking a trail early in the morning. Came across several deer, the light was low and the camera was set on full auto just to see how it would work. The lens was out to 400mm and the camera set iso 400, Itook the shot not expecting it to be any good. A trip to the local Wal Mart got me a 8×12, I was afraid to look! to my suprise it was GREAT. Oh, I forgot to say the shutter speed was only a 1/15th of a second. How that is possible even with optical stabilizer is amazing. Panasonic got it right this time, no more worries about digital noise as far as I can tell. It would get 6 stars if I could.