Top 5 ‘Wow’ Factors Of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28

Since I bought it 2 weeks ago, I have been practising and exploring all the features of this Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 compact camera with no reservation. Until this morning, I have shot a total of 1100 photos which I think is quite enough to understand, if not fully, the characteristics of my new toy. I did this evaluation exercise with 2 reasons: One being so ‘hot’ and tempted to shoot photos while it is still new and fresh in my hands, while the other resaon is to try out and figure out the capabilities of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 in handling all kinds of environment, situations and lighting (not in the rain of course:) ) before I take it along as my new travel camera to Shanghai in another 11 days!

However, I need to stop this evaluation exercise at once (or temporarily?) before my travel blog turned into a Tech savvy blog 🙂 . As a conclusion, I have summarised 5 top ‘Wow’ factors of my new camera, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 which I just can’t resist to show off!

1. 18x Ultra Zoom– One of the biggest selling points of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX28 is its awesome 18x optical zoom (though the latest Canon boosts up to 20x) from 27mm wide angle to 486mm telephoto. Thanks to the business collaboration between Panasonic and Leica, FZ28 uses a multi elements Leica’s high precision DC VARIO-ELMARIT zoom lense that produce stunning and bright telephoto picture while keeping the least distortion to wide landscape; 27mm Wide Angle View
   

   27mm Wide Angle View

   

   486mm Telephoto View

2. Optical Image Stabiliser– This is also one of the strongest weapon of Panasonic with its proprietory O.I.S. technologies that produces one of the best stabilised image even in those shaky hands like me 🙂 . I’ve tried to shoot a night object with 1 sec exposure and the result was to my biggest shock!;
   

   Awesome O.I.S. stabilised this dark image for 1 second!

3. Intelligent Auto– Also the Panasonic’s proprietory features, this camera is equipped with the latest Intelligent functions of such as Intelligent ISO, Intelligent Exposure and off course, the fully Intelligent Auto for Point-and-Shoot. The IA is especially great to me which the camera could detect the scene (either potrait, landscape, macro, night portrait or night landscape)and adjust the setting and colours automatically, when I want to merely point-and-shoot various scenes on vacation but lazy to dial the scene mode. This IA could even trigger macro focusing mode automatically when I point to an object as close as 10mm without pressing any button!;
   

   Intelligent Exposure automatically adjusted highlight and shadow

   

   Intelligent Auto triggered Macro mode when point closely to an object

4. RAW Shooting– Such a big ‘Wow’ for such a competitive price! There is not many cameras in the market at this price range actually allowed to shoot in RAW or RAW+JPEG format! This used to be DSLR dedicated feature is now available in FZ28 for me to shoot in RAW and process it myself later for full flexibilities and creativities (though inexperienced user as me would raher leave it to the camera to post-process my photos most of the time). This is an once-in-a-while feature for me when I decided to shoot some ‘serious’ scenery shot (when I hold the camera and stand like a professional photographer 🙂 ), and
   

   KL Night Scene

   

   Morning Call

5. HD Video – For its selling price or rather my buying price (I bought it for RM1300 which is quite a lot cheaper than the market price of RM1499 🙂 ), nobody would expect it to record nice video but it does! Even better, it records video in HD format! And the best, it records while zooming in and out!

“‘Wow wow wow wow wow”. That’s the top 5 ‘wow’ factor features of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28. Did I mean it is the perfect camera for all? Not quite. Not unless Panasonic incorporated an even better and larger image sensor than 1/2.33″ in this compact ultrazoom camera. However it is definitely the perfect choice for me at the moment.- Travel Feeder.

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.