Advantages: Portable with powerful zooming lens Disadvantages: Restrictions on using a replacing battery of other brand
As described in the title, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 is a compactdigital camera with great zoom lens. After using it for four weeks, I cannot get rid of it. I highly recommend it to those who are looking for a digital camera for three main reasons.
First, TZ7 takes nice pictures. With the lens from Leica, the quality of pictures is guaranteed. Before this one, I had used two digital cameras, including a Canon and an Olympus. TZ7 shoots better pictures than the two, especially in an environment with low light. And it has more options to adjust the sizes of the pictures.
Second, it is awsome to have 12x optical zoom within its highly portable size. Before buying it, I did consider buying a DSLR. I had been struggling with the decision for a long time. Finally, I took TZ7 and I was not disappointed at all. Its merits of being portable ...
Advantages: Movies, LiveView, 12.3 mpixels, build quality, excellent lens range Disadvantages: Still quite bulky for casual use. Expensive if that's all you want it for
, although it?s noticeably slower if using LiveView, which also seems to take ages coming into focus.
Lens Conversion Factor ? 1.5. This means that anyone used to the terminology of 35mm film-camera lenses will have to rethink the power of their existing lens collection. Under the old rule of thumb that a 50 mm focal length equalled 1 magnification, in digital days, it now represents 1.5 magnifications. This is because lenses don?t change, but the sensor of the D90 (and most other DSLRs) is about 66% the size of a 35 mm film negative (that?s about the same size as an APS negative ? remember them?). Hence my Nikkor 100 mm to 300 mm zoom is about 3 - 9 magnification (a power which would have needed a 150mm to 450 mm lens in ?celluloid days?)
Note: All Nikon lenses ?fit?, even the lenses from my 1970s Nikon F, but don?t expect an old lens like this ...
BNibbles 04.08.2009
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