Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX07T user reviews (Brown)

4.0 stars

"Love the camera. Lots of options and easy to use menus" on May 9, 2008 by PSME

Pros: This camera has a wonderful set of options that include all the regualrs and a few extras, such as wide-angle, high iso, easy to use buttons, a built in function to send images via usb to a printer

Cons: The camera feels like it could break easily. I'm rough on my cameras and I haven't broken it yet, but I want to get a backup fx07 for when I do break it.

Summary: This camera is the bees knees!

The combination of buttons and menus is just right for me. For example, there is a dedicated button for the anti-shake gadgetry. This is something that deserves a button--digging through the menu for it all the time is a pain on other cameras. Another example is that another dedicated button displays the LCD options, which include brightening it, turning it off, or making it visible at a high angle, so you can still see what the camera is looking at when you hold the camera high above your head, say to take a picture over a crowd or over a huge piece of coarse woody debris in an old growth forest. The balance between having a button for each feature or a menu to provide more options was well chosen on this feature rich camera.

I'm particularly impressed with the high ISO. I don't recall at the moment how high it goes, but that's what your read the specs for, not the reviews. The ISO goes high and that's good for taking shots of your baby's face lit by the birthday candles, or even better, the fresh spring blossoms in the spotty diffuse light deep in the understory of a pacific northwest rain forest.

That raises another point. I wander all around the woods, often slipping, sliding, and falling on wood, rocks, and all sorts of fun stuff. I keep this camera in my pocket completely unprotected. Between the rain and the beating this camera takes, I am always pleased that it keeps on working. It has solid construction, but feels like it is not specifically made to be durable. So far, so good.

The startup time (from turning on the switch to the time to the first picture) is very quick...a second, give or take. Much quicker than I would have expected.

Anyway, it's a good camera.