Where's the TZ1??

[adamsfamily]

Helps... helps.... it's fantastic!!

Well done Blackbird!!! Oh this just gets better and better....

[blackbird]

No problem. . I've been looking high and low for the TZ1 review. Hoping to sell my Sony T9 soon and by next month, my 20D will hv a new partner. . Here's another site that shows the TZ1 images... http://www.flickr.com/photos/minami/tags/tz1/ can anyone verify that the shots are indeed from TZ1? Can't check the exif.

[ljubom]

There are some interesting pictures in full resolution (2560x1920) and with all meta-data (ISO, F-number, Exposure, etc.) at

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/lo...3/29/3539.html

There is a kind of purple fringing at picture with the statue (see tree branches). I'm not an expert, so I don't know if this is ok for cameras from this class and in such conditions (strong background light).

I hope there will be soon a full, "multi page" , review here on dcresource (or on some similar in-depth review site).

Note: You can translate the page in almost-english with the fish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

[mynicksnix]

When you take a close look at this picture (from the same website), you can see at the right that it doesn't look good either.

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/pa...3539-13-1.html

Somebody at the DPREVIEW forum pointed to that.
I seem to be the only one who is accepted at that forum ......

At Dpreview they are also talking about noise mostly. So I'm actually still hoping to see the natural/vivid/standard comparison soon......hint hint! Maybe the manual noise settings also affect the deficienties on the 2 photo's.

[mynicksnix]

No problem. . I've been looking high and low for the TZ1 review. Hoping to sell my Sony T9 soon and by next month, my 20D will hv a new partner. . Here's another site that shows the TZ1 images... http://www.flickr.com/photos/minami/tags/tz1/ can anyone verify that the shots are indeed from TZ1? Can't check the exif.

No, you can't save the file decently (only 1 kb file, that doesn't open).
So not sure it's really TZ1.

[ljubom]

When you take a close look at this picture (from the same website), you can see at the right that it doesn't look good either.

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/pa...3539-13-1.html

Hmm, it is interesting that fringing is visible in left low corner and right side looks ok (always on bordeer between white background and object in the foreground).

Somebody at the DPREVIEW forum pointed to that.
I seem to be the only one who is accepted at that forum ......

I didn't have any problems to subscribe to dpreview forum (few days ago).

At Dpreview they are also talking about noise mostly. So I'm actually still hoping to see the natural/vivid/standard comparison soon......hint hint! Maybe the manual noise settings also affect the deficienties on the 2 photo's.

[Dmares]

Hi All
thank you all for the input in these pages. I lost my Pentax 550 and am on the search for a new digi camera. The only thing I am missing with the Lumix is the CCD chip. My Pentax had 1/1.8 and most cameras today have 1/2.5 meaning that the pictures do have quite some noising.
So far the pictures I have seen seem very good with low noise. A sales person told me that Panasonic has problems with the color as the japanese love hard color and especially with blue ? He recommended Canon A700 ( 1/2.5 CCD) if I would rather take the A620 with 1/1.8CCD.
Does any one have experience with pictures taken by Optio 55o and the Lumix DMC tz1. Are they as sharp as the ones from Pentax ?

The camera will probably arrive beginning of April here in Germany

Cheers
Dennis

[bobm59]

Yes - with the unlimited setting I just kept my finger on the button and it took all 9 shots until I released.

All the sequence modes are:

High Speed - Takes 3 pictures/second.
Low Sped - Takes 2 pictures/second.

With the above two modes, you can shoot a maximum of 3 photos in fine quality mode or 5 photos in in standard quality mode.

Unlimited mode - Takes approximately 2 pictures/second, to the maximum of the memory card.

And then there is all sorts of fine print about the photo conditions, like speed, ISO setting, whether you use the flash or not, how much of the memory card is full, etc.

doug

First post also! Doug, you have been quite generous with your samples and thouughtful replies. This thread has sealed the deal for a TZ1. I'm on my second Nikon now, but this Panny looks like the real deal for me. Congrats on the acquisition!

...now, can we see some samples of cats, food carts, baseball players, and young women taken in low-light outside, after 5pm without flash? ...just kidding!

[ljubom]

At www.dpreview.com there is a discussion about pictures from http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/lo...3/29/3539.html . Some people are speculating that used DMC-TZ1 is a pre-production unit.

It will be interesting if somebody with tz1 (Doug? ) posts similar full resolution pictures (e.g. very bright background, some trees in foreground, see http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/pa...3539-14-2.html or a building with bright background, see http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/pa...3539-13-1.html).

[bobb2233]

Just joined the forum to keep up with the news on the TZ1. Noted today, that a company in Japan is selling TZ1s on E-Bay at above list plus shipping. Looks like the Japanese model with English instructions. Only if you are desperate to have one in a hurry. Me, I'll wait till the US model is available.