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Panasonic FZ300 Street Cam 1 March 2017
The FZ300 is compact and reasonably unobtrusive. AF is very fast and accurate and picture quality good enough in a wide variety of circumstances.Here are some examples from a day in Sydney, mainly in...
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Setting up the Panasonic FZ300 Part 1 Accessories
FZ300 No problem with the high subject brightness range when the original file is a RAW.Like many others these people appear to have come to Sydney in order to peer intently at their smart phones.The...
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Setting up the Panasonic FZ300 Part 2 Setup menu
Sydney iconsBefore starting on the Setup Menu you should adjust the EVF diopter with the little wheel on the left side of the eyepiece.Press the Disp button repeatedly until the screen is cluttered...
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Setting up the Panasonic FZ300 Part 3 Managing iA Mode
FZ300Like most modern digital cameras the FZ300 has a Mode Dial setting which provides a highly automated level of control over exposure and focussing.This is [iA]. On other brands of camera the...
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Setting up the Panasonic FZ300 Part 4 PASM basics
Juvenile OrioleNow we move the Mode Dial onto P and the setting up process starts to get more interesting and complex with more decisions to be made.Touch screen Almost every camera reviewer whose...
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Setting up the Panasonic FZ300 Part 5 Rec Menu
FZ300You can find the Rec Menu items on page 336 of theOperating Instructions for Advanced Features. I will refer only to those items which I think require clarification or suggestions beyond those in...
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Setting up the Panasonic FZ300 Part 6 Custom Menu
The Custom Menu hosts a miscellaneous congregation of items which could and in my view should be more coherently organised by Panasonic with subheadings meaningful to users.Some cameras like the Nikon...
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Panasonic FZ80 review series Part 1 history and market position
I decided to begin this series of posts on the FZ80 with some night photos as I happen to have made them recently. This is Sydney CBD from Ridge St North Sydney, a favourite spot for photographs.Tripod...
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Panasonic FZ80 review Part 2.1 About the lens - wide
20mm ISO 800 f2.8 The lens on the FZ80 has a very ambitious specification. The 60x zoom ranges from a superwide 20mm (equivalent) at the wide end to an ultralong 1200mm (equivalent) at the long end. No...
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Panasonic FZ80 review Part 2.2 About the lens-mid zoom range
200mm f5.5Superzoom lenses typically perform well in the mid part of their zoom range and the FZ80 is no exception. From (equivalent) 50mm to around 600mm the lens delivers very good resolution right...
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Panasonic FZ80 review Part 2.3 The lens- long end
800mm hand held. AF-C Burst-M. The ferry is about a kilometer from the camera. There is a sign above the entry way "Welcome Aboard" in cursive script with letters about 100mm high. I can easily read...
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Panasonic FZ80 review Part 3.1 About the (digital) noise
FZ80 f4 20mm hand held ISO 80 One forum member thought the grain in this photo to be simply unbearable. Yet when printed out even at large size it is barely visible.Mirrorless digital cameras like the...
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Panasonic FZ80 review Part 3.2 Managing the (digital) noise
Brush turkey at ISO 1600, FZ80 I often read statements from reviewers and users on forums that a camera like this could not possibly be used at ISO 1600. See for yourself. It is not a work of great...
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Panasonic FZ80 review Part 2.4 Lens comparisons
FZ80 I have been able to test and compare lenses of several fixed zoom lens cameras including compact and “bridge” types.I test cameras which I buy retail and use for my own photographic projects....
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Panasonic Lumix LX10 Ergonomic evaluation and score January 2017
FZ80 Yellow thornbill. Full zoom, croppedIn September 2016 Panasonic announced the FZ2000 superzoom and the LX10 compact. I bought both and have been testing them. The FZ2000 achieved the highest...
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Camera Ergonomic Score Summaries Updated May 2017
Bees on Darwinia fasicularis FZ80Youcan read about my camera ergonomic score method and schedules hereNew entries, Panasonic LX10 and FZ80CameraSetup PhaseMax 15Prepare Phase Max 15...
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Panasonic FZ80 Review Part 4 Specifications and Features
FZ80 Low light wide angle hand heldFor a model close to the bottom end of Panasonic’s lineup the FZ80 offers a remarkable level of specifications, features and capability. You can read the details in...
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Panasonic FZ80 Review Part 5 Picture Quality
Feeding time at the zoo. I chose this photo as it presents the camera with quite a challenge. There is very large subject brightness range, weird color balance with the mixed light sources, low light...
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Panasonic FZ80 Review Part 6 Performance
The FZ80 has no trouble following focus at 6 fps on fast moving subjects outdoors. The FZ80 is one of the best performing budget superzooms ever made. Indeed there are many much more expensive...
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Panasonic FZ80 Review Part 7 Ergonomics
FZ80 wide angle A camera with good ergonomics will allow a practiced user to carry out all the tasks required to control camera operation with a minimum number of actions, each of low complexity.On...
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