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| Excellent all round camera with surprisingly strong video capabilities | I've had the camera for 6 months (I don't think you can review a camera any earlier due the novelty factor, and you can't master all the controls in that time!)
Picture quality is excellent. It takes a little getting used to focussing - either on a different part of the subject, or blurring too easily. However with a little time and some experience, these two issues can be easily avoided.
The video camera ability is astounding. It is an excellent video camera for inside and outside, short videos. Ideal for uploading to the Internet.
With a steady hand or a tripod, you will be very impressed with the picture quality.
I recommend you buy at least a 2Gb SD card and definitely a filter to screw on to the front of the lens to protect it. Then replace the filter annually, to keep pictures very sharp. | Written on 28 October 2008 |   |
| FZ18 is superb | | Just returned from Costa Rica and the FZ18 proved to be a wonderful purchase. I selected this camera for my wife, after many hours of research and it turned out to be a little gem. On holiday it regularly out perform expensive SLRs and made getting that 'instant snap' an easy and successful process. As a 'point and shoot' camera, you'd be hard pushed to find better, but it can do so much more if required. It's flexibilty, incredible zoom and picture performance make it a must have for anyone needing more than a standard 3x zoom compact! | Written on 25 August 2008 | |
| Fantastic camera | I have owned this camera for 6 months and use it take pictures of my son playing Rugby and now no other camera is good enough.
It's excellent and if you reduce pictures to 5 Megapixel you get 23x Optical zoom which is simply superb in sport mode. Also, unlike some top end SLR's you can follow the action on the LCD and then take the picture which is much better than squinting your eye into a little viewfinder. I have lost count of the people with proper SLR's who moan about that.
If you buy an extreme memory card you will be able to take 5 very quick multi shot pictures in burst mode so you can catch the action pictures that you would normally have lost. My only criticism is the screen does go blank while picture is taken but that may be because I haven't worked out how to stop it.
Don't forget it is also a video camera with sound too and it works extremely well apart from the fact that the zoom is fixed as soon as you start recording so you have to use a bit of judgment in advance of filming.
I can get great portrait shots of my son from a distance (why do they allways hide or pull a silly face when they see the camera?)and this keeps the missus happy too. All I have to do is stop him deleting them now.
Lastly, if you change to 5 Megapixel you can squeeze an impressive 90x zoom using the digital extended zoom and still get good pictures. I took a picture of the moon the other day, full screen and you can actually see the craters, don't ask why, just because I could.
Fully recommend buying this camera, for this kind of money you can't fail. | Written on 12 May 2008 | |
| Fab camera | Does what it says on the box! Ordered Monday, arrived Wednesday. I'm not very knowledgable about cameras but this takes great pictures. Have taken photos of a baby, panoramic & night-time. They all look good! Buy if you can.
50 plus user, beginner. | Written on 06 May 2008 | |
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