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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
4.0 stars
"Excellent camera"
Pros: Perfect size-balanced
Cons: a downgrade to FZ30
Summary: I own the FZ30 but I am really tired of Philip Ryan's bias reviews. It is obvious he is not a professional photographer, since he thinks the FZ50 is large. I have yet to see a professional camera that fits in the palm of your hand Mr. Ryan. It is a perfect size and is extremely well balanced. The so called "noise" of Panasonics is simply blown out of proportion, they are no more noiser than any other camera with this size sensor. All I know is that Panasonic's keep winning awards, picture awards beating out Canon's, Nikon's, Olympus and Fuji's. That should tell you something. CNET has absolutely the worse bias reviewers I have seen on any site, they apparently know nothing of photography, or electronics. By Mr. Ryans own words, he is apparently a Point and Shoot photographer and the FZ50 and the FZ30 before it is not a Point and shoot camera. I am a professional photographer, and I a retired Electonics specialists, I can tell you now, that Panasonic has the best electronics of any brand camera, they may not be able to do a lot of high ISO low light above ISO 400 but most people do not shoot at those settings, and what noise you do get, can be corrected easily with Adobe CS2, or Noise ninja, and others, I will take the noise, that I can handle but soft pics like Fuji, or Canon superzoom's which also have purple fringing, those I will not accept. Mr. Ryan need to learn his trade better or quit doing reviews on things he apparently knowns very little about. The FZ50 is the best superzoom on the market today bar none. Buy it!
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I'm currently deciding between the Canon S3 and the Panasonic FZ50. Which one do you think is better in terms of product features and image quality?
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There seems to be this on-going issue about noise in Panasonic cameras, but I have yet to see this in any prints I've made. Viewing on the screen is one thing, but if you're making prints larger than 8X10, then you should be looking at more expensive DSLRs anyway.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50K (black):
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