The FZ50 Panasonic is versatile, easy to use, and produces incredibly sharp photographs but is built like a tank and picking up and aiming with it is a lot like looking down the barrel of a gun. It is powered with Mega Optical Image stabilizer and Noise Reduction. Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50 comes in two flavours: all black body, or a very attractive silver and black body.
The DMC-FZ50 is equipped with a new Function Button which serves as a shortcut to quickly set frequently-used settings such as recording image size, light metering, AF area, White balance, and ISO sensitivity.
The 2-inch LCD flips out to 180 degrees, making it easier to view even when shooting from high or low angles.
It powers on and is ready for first shot in 1.4 seconds and shot to shot requires 1.25 sec. ISO 1,600 and 3,200 are practically unusable because of the big amount of noise.
Other facilities of this camera are: Autofocus Macro (close-up) setting allows focusing up to five centimeters, Three Continuous Shooting modes, plus Auto Exposure Bracketing mode.
Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Program AE, Aperature Priority, Shutter Priority AE, Manual
• Scene mode with 16 presets + Custom
• White Balance: Auto, Daylight / Sunny (Preset), Cloudy (Preset), Shade (Preset), Halogen (Preset), Flash (Preset)
• Flash (buit-in pop-up) Options: Flash Off, Auto Flash, Red-eye Reduction Flash, Slow Sync, and Forced On
• Movie Mode: 30 fps, no time limit, quick time and motion jpeg
• Focus: Autofocus and Manual Focus
• Metering: Intelligent Multiple, Center-weighted, or Spot
• Effects: cool, warm, B&W, or sepia color, image contrast, sharpening, saturation, and noise reduction
Technical Data:
• 2.0 inch LCD
• 10.1 megapixels
• 12x optical zoom + 4x digital
• 35-420mm (35mm equivalent) lens
• 7.4-88.8mm focal length
• Focus range: 1.97-11.81 in. to Infinity (wide) / 78.74 in. to Infinity (tele)
• ISO range: 100/ 200/ 400/ 800/ 1600/ 3200
• Aperture Range: f11/f11 - f2.8/f3.7
• Shutter Speed: 60 - 1/2000 sec
• Self-Timer: 2, 10 sec
• Exposure Compensation: +/-2.0EV in 1/3EV steps
• File Format: JPEG, TIFF, RAW (DPOF)
• Memory Storage: MMC / SD Card
• Digital Viewfinder
• Rechargeable Li-Ion Battery (360 pictures)
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My Name is Lau, I'm 23 and I'm from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Nature Photography is my passion, and secondary, Abstract Photography, but other kind of photographic challenges please me as well.
