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Panasonic DMC-FZ30 review Gordon Laing, January 2006


 



 




Outdoor
/ Resolution / Noise / Corner sharpness / Fringe and macro / Geometry / Vignetting

Outdoor scene - Panasonic DMC-FZ30 comparison

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 at 11mm f8   To compare real-life performance we shot the same scene with all three cameras within a few minutes of each other using their best quality JPEG settings and an aperture of f8 in Aperture Priority mode. The crops are taken from far left, center and far right portions of the originals and presented here at 100%.

The image left was taken with the Panasonic FZ30 at 11mm f8 (52mm equivalent); the original JPEG measured 3.32MB. Viewed at 100%, all three models show similar levels of detail, although the Canon 350D's result has lost some highlight detail due to its metering selecting the same exposure as the FZ30, despite a slightly higher sensitivity of 100 ISO.

Panasonic DMC-FZ30
Fujifilm FinePix S9500 Zoom
Canon EOS-350D with 18-55mm EF-S
Panasonic DMC-FZ30 crop 1
Fujifilm FinePix S9500 / S9000 crop 1
Canon EOS-350D crop 1
1/320, f8, 80 ISO
1/250, f8, 80 ISO
1/320, f8, 100 ISO
Panasonic DMC-FZ30 crop 2
Fujifilm FinePix S9500 / S9000 crop 2
Canon EOS-350D crop 2
1/320, f8, 80 ISO
1/250, f8, 80 ISO
1/320, f8, 100 ISO
Panasonic DMC-FZ30 crop 3
Fujifilm FinePix S9500 / S9000 crop 3
Canon EOS-350D crop 3
1/320, f8, 80 ISO
1/250, f8, 80 ISO
1/320, f8, 100 ISO

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Outdoor / Resolution / Noise / Corner sharpness / Fringe and macro / Geometry / Vignetting

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