Panasonic DMC FX500 Digital Camera
September 23, 2008
Pros: Great quality of images, versatile lens, good HD video, innovative touch controls.
Cons: Expensive, Lazy zoom
The Panasonic DMC-FX500 Compact Digital Camera is a cutting edge camera that is easily pocket sized. It has a premium metal build, touchscreen controls and high-definition video recording. This certainly, is a no-compromise product that you can base your high expectations upon.
It looks right and the feel is great either, although not an ultra compact model like the Canon IXUS 85 IS. Anyhow, it sure is tiny for the amount of tech it houses.
What innovation is out-of-the-box?
The 3in touchscreen is not that touch-friendly as the Sony DSC-T300 though its joysticks and controls offer it some traditional functions, arguably the best of both worlds. Like the DSC-T300, here too you have the concept of touch-focusing where you touch a point on the screen for focusing rather than the conventional auto-focus for fixing the focal point.
Aperture and shutter speed settings can be easily altered by two slider bars that appear on the screen of this device, when it is set in the manual mode. There are instances, you could find yourself using the joystick to alter a setting when you could actually be scratching on the on-screen icon.
Picture quality
Surely, there is a promise of taking the best pictures in its class with accurate colours, and minimal noise across all ISO ranges. Its flash performance is also remarkable. The Panasonic DMC FX500 5x Zoom Leica lens Digital Camera begins image-capture at a very useful 25mm-equivalent ultra-wide angle with a maximum aperture of f2.8 for low light shooting without flash. The optical image stabilizer stems from Panasonic’s usual high standards. The lens is lazy while zooming-in and zooming-out. The video files, saved in the .mov formats, are 720p high-def videos and are good enough for a compact digital camera.
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