Archive for the 'Panasonic' Category
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX50K Review
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006It’s not easy being a 7-megapixel snapshot camera. You have to be fast, cute, cheap, smart, and talented just to get noticed. If you’re lucky, your company will give you a clear spot in the lineup with your siblings; if not, you’ve got to duke it out with a cheaper version of yourself. By these [...]
Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 Review
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Things are about to become very interesting in the world of digital SLRs. Now that Panasonic has its Lumix DMC-L1 in stores, three of the world’s largest consumer electronics companies have joined the big leagues of digital imaging. How the L1 fares against the offerings from Sony and Samsung, as well as from the more [...]
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2S Review
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Just as Canon decided to drop raw-format support from its compact enthusiast model, the PowerShot G7, Panasonic comes along and decides to add that very feature to its G-series competitor, the Lumix DMC-LX2. It’s just packed with other amateur-oriented features as well, including a variety of focus modes, all of the essential metering and semi-manual [...]
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50S Review
Monday, October 23rd, 2006Superzooms are nothing new, but somewhere along the line, a portion of them have evolved into catch-all SLR substitutes, with long, fast zoom lenses, high megapixel counts, manual exposure controls, and in some cases, even hotshoes and raw image capture. Plus, they record video. For now, that’s something you can’t get from an SLR. Panasonic’s [...]
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ5
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Panasonic’s recent ad campaign promoting MEGA O.l.S., its image stabilization technology, includes the catch phrase “Life’s a blur. Your photos shouldn’t be.” It’s a good line and, for the most part, appropriately highlights this technology’s performance. The MEGA O.l.S. (optical image stabilizer) hardware comes in handy on Panasonic’s 6-megapixel Lumix DMC-LZ5 compact digital camera, which [...]
