FZ20, FZ3 & FX7 - Images of the actual camera itself + more!

[Matsushita]

I don't know if this have already been posted, but this is for those who haven't yet seen these 3 cameras in real life. Here are some nice shots of the cameras itself from PC Watch (Japanese website).

There is a section on FZ3 image comparison page where they compare a flower photo taken from the 3 image formats: TIFF, JPEG-FINE & JPEG-STANDARD. According to their results, after magnifying all 3 photos to 300% in Photoshop, it did not show a difference in image quality.

Chipsets inside the 3 cameras + more
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0721/pana4.htm

FZ20
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0721/pana1.htm

FZ3 + FZ2 side by side
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0721/pana2.htm
FZ3 image comparison
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0820/drev007.htm

FX7
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0825/drev009.htm
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0721/pana3.htm

More comparison shots taken from the 3 cameras
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0811/date005a.htm
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0811/date005b.htm


Try use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to translate these pages from Japanese to English.

[jimr]

I could not get Babelfish to work. In brief, could I trouble you for a conclusion about the image quality of the FZ 3 to FZ 20 ? If you could throw in the Fuji E550/F810 twins in comparison, I'd appreciate it. I very rarely make prints larger than 8 X 10. Thanks!
Jim