Jeff reviews FZ50

[Riley]

just been tipped off that FZ50 review is up

http://dcresource.com/reviews/panasonic/dmc_fz50-review/index.shtml

Riley

[jcon]

Its been up for a week or so and was posted in another thread here. Nothing surprising in the review though, terrible at medium to high ISO and great outside in good light.


If you want to spend alot of money on a camera that can only shoot up to 400ISO, then heres your camera:rolleyes:

[Riley]

frankly jcon
many cameras in this field can only go to iso 400
the iso 800 and up images being relatively useless
that includes the canon S3is, though probably not the S2
as you would also have seen me say here before
not that either of those cameras draw the same critique
or tht they are as bad

while i have always agreed FZ50 has problems
raw shooting is a workaround for 'its' upper limit iso
this dodges the venus engine and allows PP editing that wont be as fierce

Riley

[genece]

Panasonic has done some great stuff with the last few generations of the FZs....many features that are way above the competition but they need to reconsider cramming more mp on a sensor and they need to add a buffer to the camera and a compressed raw ...so the raw feature of the camera can be used...... IMHO...it sucks the way it is now.

For my type of picture taking ,RAW on the FZ30/50 is worthless.

[T1KARMANN]

i just dont understand reveiws everything i read says that the fz50 is crap at high iso then i took this picture which everyone has said the iso is real high yet it looks ok to me

so is the fz50 rubbish at high iso or not

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m122/T1KARMANN/P1000084.jpg

[JohnK]

Who is the 'everyone' saying it was taken at high ISO? The ISO isn't shown in the EXIF, so how are we supposed to know if it was "high" ISO? Also when you resize a 10mp image down to 0.3mp it tends to not show noise very much. It looks like a fairly bright tank, what ISO were you using?

Camera Make: Panasonic
Camera Model: DMC-FZ50
Image Date: 2006:11:16 16:32:11
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 14.8mm (35mm equivalent: 70mm)
Exposure Time: 0.033 s (1/30)
Aperture: f/3.2
White Balance: Auto
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: program (Auto)

[Mike63]

Who is the 'everyone' saying it was taken at high ISO? The ISO isn't shown in the EXIF, so how are we supposed to know if it was "high" ISO? Also when you resize a 10mp image down to 0.3mp it tends to not show noise very much. It looks like a fairly bright tank, what ISO were you using?

Camera Make: Panasonic
Camera Model: DMC-FZ50
Image Date: 2006:11:16 16:32:11
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 14.8mm (35mm equivalent: 70mm)
Exposure Time: 0.033 s (1/30)
Aperture: f/3.2
White Balance: Auto
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: program (Auto)

This thread is where this discussion came from.
http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?p=175844#post175844

Having personally looked these over they did indeed say iso-3200. For some reason this picture no longer shows the iso.

[tim11]

i just dont understand reveiws everything i read says that the fz50 is crap at high iso then i took this picture which everyone has said the iso is real high yet it looks ok to me

so is the fz50 rubbish at high iso or not

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m122/T1KARMANN/P1000084.jpg

If this image was taken at 3200, then FZ50 is more than OK; it would be excellent. But reduced size or not, I doubt very much this was from ISO3200.

[T1KARMANN]

OK well im no expert and just went on what i was told their are a few more pics in that thread

so if you want to check them or i can send you the originals via email

http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?p=175844#post175844

i have done nothing to the pics as i wouldnt even know how

[debu_17]

In another thread " acquarium photos" i had expressed my doubts about this photo being
at ASa3200, now i feel i may be quite right.

the exif now shows "program (auto)" , in this mode the FZ 50 cannot , mark it, cannot work at ASA3200 , it can work only upto ASA1600 , ( set from the menu).

I have a FZ 50 and since this photo i have tried to get the equivalent exif, but did not suceed.

To get FZ 50 to work at ASa3200, the only way is to set it to "HI sensitivity mode", set thru the menu
only.

at the same time the photo is good, and that remains.

[T1KARMANN]

In another thread " acquarium photos" i had expressed my doubts about this photo being
at ASa3200, now i feel i may be quite right.

the exif now shows "program (auto)" , in this mode the FZ 50 cannot , mark it, cannot work at ASA3200 , it can work only upto ASA1600 , ( set from the menu).

I have a FZ 50 and since this photo i have tried to get the equivalent exif, but did not suceed.

To get FZ 50 to work at ASa3200, the only way is to set it to "HI sensitivity mode", set thru the menu
only.

at the same time the photo is good, and that remains.

you are right the cam was set in the SCN mode and high sens

and all the pics im takeing are set at high sens or sport mode but they come out better in high sens