Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18EB-K > Reviews > THE GREAT IMAGE BRIDGER.

Author's product rating:   

Picture Quality	Excellent
Range & Quality of Features	Diverse
Ease of Use	Average
Overall Look & Design	Good
Value for Money	Good

Advantages:	produces good images
Disadvantages:	manual controls dilemma at times .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Well I don't have much fund in buying such device but I was lucky to get across this when I went for a vacation or a visit last weekend. Well I will say that I am not that current because I was amazed when I saw a Panasonic photo camera. Well Sony, Kodak, Konica and canon have made products like Panasonic and others dumb and less known.

I have never come across a Panasonic camera rather I have been hearing about it and I knew that it does exist but the problem was that I never bothered to buy or use until the weekend travel.

I never had this but I got access to this from a friend that gave me the hospitality. This is not a DSLR camera although it has the same similarities but to make things clear, it is a bridge camera.

What actually is the meaning of a bridge camera? I think this is the aspect where people will be interested and anxious to know. A bridge camera is the type of photo camera that bridges the gap or creates demarcations between the shooting, DSLR and point as well.

There are lots differences between the bridge camera and a DSLR camera. The DSLR camera you as the photographer have almost all the control to the device where by letting the user achieving better results and desired image. This can equally do the job of the DSLR camera because it will enable you to put in features like the focus, aperture setting and shutter speed camera.

The Panasonic lumix DMC-FZ18EB-K comes with optical image sterilizer, which helps to take snaps without a tripod because it can eliminate errors from a novice.

The camera is cheaper to compare to the great DSLR cameras. I have found out some thing about this particular type of camera and that is the ease of use. It is very easy to use and it is very good for a novice. I have used the DSLR camera and it is harder to use. In the DSLR camera it is not advisable to use the DSLR camera because it wont be able to remove all the errors done by the photographer. Well to me as a beginner in taking photographs, I think I will go for the bridge photograph type because I found it very comfortable and user friendly in terms of use when I took some snaps.

SOME PRODUCT INFROMATIONS.
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It has an LCD monitor which is 2.5-pollychratilline TFT LCD display. Also has auto power display LCD mode, power LCD mode.

It also has built in flash, auto red eye reduction, slow sync with forced off.

Shutter program type speed: 1-1/2000 sec.

Image quality fine/RAW/ RAW+ JPEG.

White balance auto/ daylight/cloudy/ shade/halogen/ white set.

ISO sensitive auto/100/200/400/800/1250/1600.

Optical zoom 18x

These are the features and this enables you to store information in raw format. So in making things to be understood, this is really the type of photograph that suites novice or beginners like me although I am not intending to be a professional or making it a career.

The camera is very easy to take about and I am very comfortable with it because it is not too heavy hence the controls are all easily assessable and easy to switch from one setting to another. It can equally take video footage and still image.

It has battery hat has the power supply of power lion battery pack (7.2,710mah) type and it produces superb power and it is quite good for a professional photographer. It also last long and prolongs for those that is no chance of putting the power back.

It is also capable of making good video images, which is another good feature.

Buying places.
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Could be bought at many places but in the case of the one that I have used, it was bought at Amazon .uk at the price of £225.95 which is still very cheap compare to some DSLR camera that might cost over a £1000.

My thought
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This is a very nice bridge camera and would recommend this to beginners instead of using DSLR camera photo. This would cover you up in many blunders and errors done. Well let me not miss lead readers by writing that this is for novice users, the bridge camera is not meant for beginners but professional photographers can use it. But what I mean is that it is easier for a novice to use. The problem with the Panasonic lumix dmc- FZ18EB-K is that the manual controls are hard to use than the automatic control.

Thanks.