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 Lumix (Panasonic) FZ35 Digital Camera March 17, 2010
John Daniel Wagner (St. Louis area)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great camera for the price with everything I need to take quaility photos. 18X is great. Easy to learn how to use all functions
 The Perfect Camera for Outdoor Enthusiasts March 15, 2010
kkrome25 (California, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this camera. It's tiny! I wish all professional-level cameras were this small. It's the perfect size! Almost half the size of a Nikon F5, and probably 1/3 the weight! You can carry it for hours without feeling it at the end of the day. The problem with most cameras in this class and size is that their lenses are not sharp; they don't have good contrast, they have noticeable distortion, chromatic aberration and light falloff at the edges. Cameras (including this one) will have these lens flaws to some varying degrees, and some flaws are small enough that it's acceptable. The Lumix DMC-FZ35's image quality is excellent. It does not match a pro-level slr and lens, but it's good enough that a professional with his or her abilities could use this camera (in a pinch) and turn in very usable photographs. In fact, if you're good, don't tell anybody you used this camera and let them guess if the photo was made with this camera or a nikon or canon dslr. It'll be hard to tell!
The FZ-35 comes with basic instruction booket, operating instruction on CD-ROM, Arcsoft Panoramamaker/Photofun Studio 4.0/Silkypix CD-ROM, neck strap, lens hood, lens hood mounting ring, lens cap, a very nice compact battery charger (no cord, hurrah!), television cable hookup cords, USB2 cord, and one battery. The price is amazing, considering all of the features and accessories included! And the battery consumption is the best I've seen.
Handling ergonomics is perfect...the size is perfect. The viewfinder is not too small, as some have said.
Number of shots with a Sandisk Extreme III 4 GB SDHC class 6 card on 12 megapixels and highest-quality JPEG setting = 587. So with a 2 GB card, you'll get ~ 293 shots, depending on brand of card. The biggest capacity SD card you can use is only 2 GB. If you want to use an SD card bigger than 2 GB, then it has to be SDHC and class 6. Don't skimp...buy the best memory card you can afford.
The size of the camera is 4.6 inches wide, by 3.1 inches tall, and 4.3 inches front-to-back.
Here's a neat trick: You want more zoom? Dial it down to 8, or 5, or 3, or even 2 megapixels, and see how much more zoom you get!
This is a very smart purchase, and I recommend it highly for all levels of use!
A fantabulous camera March 15, 2010
Rebecca Bond (Tampa, FL USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Love my Panasonic Lumix. Very easy to use and the LCD screen is bigger than most other comparable cameras. The battery that comes with it is rechargeable and I have only charged it once when I first received the camera, a month ago. So buying an extra would be nice for those "just in case" times, but not a necessity. All and all, I am extremely pleased with the camera. I am no expert and have not read the manual. All I did was charge the battery and put it on Intelligent Auto. Does the work for me. Will probably be even more pleased when I take the time to figure out everything it does. Very pleased with this purchase.
in one word 'awesome' March 15, 2010
sourav
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I decided to go for a high-end point and shoot camrera I was sceptical about this product as I did not really heard about panasonic in digital camera market before this .But Thanks to amazon I got a first hand idea of this product with some very solid reviews .
Moving on to the product experience -the camera has a firm grip in your hand .the buttons may feel a little too small and changing mode may feel a little less comfortable but apart from those small buttons the mode changes are easy .
Automatic modes are simply awe inspiring .So many options !! it's at times mind boggling!!
The documentation could have been better for this product as some of the descriptions may sound confusing .
I Can't say enough about this camera! March 14, 2010
Jeanette Eichhorn (Springfield, IL, US)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just bought this camera after checking with CNET to find that it received 95 five star reviews out of 95 reviews. Wow. I was looking for a camera of this type so when Amazon sent me a notice with the sale price, I snapped it up (pun intended). The thing that I liked most about it is that the movies are in Quick Time format, meaning that you can take far longer videos because Quick Time captures at 10 frames per second instead of 30 fps.
I took it to a concert and was a football field away from the stage and yet the clarity and detail of those photos was amazing. It was as if I were standing right at the foot of the stage, with a lesser quality camera. The video taken from that distance was beautiful. I leave it on auto mode most of the time, so there is nothing left to do but point and shoot. The face recognition feature is spot on, and the auto focus works great. I let someone shoot some pictures with it an event and now she is asking for one for her birthday.
You do need to run a high capacity card in it if you are using one over 2 gb. I have a 16gb in it and I can take 245 minutes of high def video on that size card. I would recommend this camera to anyone. My son now wants one for Christmas because this one totally outperforms his Canon.
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