Looks like I feel I want to see how my skills and appreciation for different cameras play now that I have much more experience with photography. This time it's my Panasonic's Lumix FZ20's turn. No Street Life Photography, just went for a walk, and photographed some trees, landscape, etc.
A couple of thoughts:
- I like the weight of the camera, and the fact that it's like carrying my evolt with two lenses all rolled into one. I think I would even prefer the tinier FZ5 actually- though that camera doesn't have manual focusing. I am afraid in some shots it will fail because of that.
- I had to manual focus some shots like very distant mountains, etc. That I find fine, but the resolution of the LCD/EVF on the FZ20 doesn't seem high enough resolution to make this task pleasant and accurate.
- It's nice to know the FZ20 has no shutter lag once you have pre-focused
- I found myself digging to the menus to change contrast, B&W to color and back, modes, and saturation. I found the digging through the menus annoying though at least Panasonic makes the menus respond in real-time to any presses, and you can actually jump pages of the menus by using the telephoto zoom in/out controls when in menu mode.
- I definitively didn't venture outside ISO 80. This camera is noisy at ISO's greater than 100.
- There doesn't seem to be a huge advantage in capturing in TIFF vs JPEG, since a lot of the noise artifacts are the same, not a result of the compression of the format. The FZ20 doesn't have raw mode.
- I found the continuous shooting mode (3fps) helpful to get some shots in focus.
- Like the shooting with the F710, now that I look at the photos in my computer, I did a lot of crooked shots… It's like I need to get used to the camera I am going to use…
- I found the shutter speed variations along with apertures a bit weird, non-intuitive and in 2-3 cases annoying (but that's the less of the cases, and it's just a matter of getting used to the constraints, coming from the e-volt).
As always, comment & critiques always welcome. The gallery is here.
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