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Average Ratings
Image Quality8/10
Battery Life7.8/10
Features8.3/10
Ease of Use8.5/10
Value for Money9.3/10
Reviewer Rating8/10
Overall Rating6.9/10 Based on 7 ratings
75% Recommended3 out of 4 Reviews

Review of Panasonic DMC-FZ7

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By noteinstein on 27th Jan 2008

noteinstein's Ratings
Time Digital Camera OwnedOver 1 Year
Image Quality8/10
Battery Life8/10
Features9/10
Ease of Use9/10
Value for money10/10
Overall value9/10
yes noteinstein's recommendation

Good Points

Leica lens delivers crisp images with very little barrel distortion or corner fading. The zoom range from wide angle scenery to telephoto bird in a tree is astonishing and is great for everyone except maybe specialist wild life photographers. Excellent colour rendition especially skin tones. The f2.8 i aperture s better than most dslr zoom lens that cost over twice as much and with the image stabilisation, you can almost never need the flash.

Bad Points

Noise ( colour speckling ) on indoor shots and above 400 as a is noticeable but can be removed on a computer. There is also shutter lag unless you pre focus.

General Comments

I have used the Panasonic DMC-FZ7 camera for almost two years and it has never let me down , friends and family love the photos it produces. You can use it as a simple point and shoot and be sure of getting a good photo or advanced users can be creative with shutter or aperture priority or even full manual control. If I part with the fz7 it will only be to buy a fz18 for an even longer zoom.
You can't go wrong with this camera

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