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| Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 12.1 MP Digital Camera with CMOS Sensor and 24x Optical Zoom |
Superzoom camera is designed to reach an extra telephoto focal length, for example above 300mm. The question is, to what extent is enough telephoto for most people? 500mm, 600mm, or more? Nikon Coolpix P510 camera even made with a lens up to 1000mm, who knows so then people interested in buying.
For those who are accustomed to using a telephoto lens is certainly well aware that in practice using a telephoto lens was not easy. First, the longer the telephoto lens, the more we need to stabilize the hand so that the result does not blur. Then telephoto lenses generally have a rather small aperture, eg f/5.6 makes less light can be captured to the optimum. As a result, we are forced to play a high ISO to compensate for the lens aperture. Another problem is the further things we photograph, the more atmospheric interference that makes the photo so it is not sharp. Granted we 1000mm lens capable of capturing distant objects that appear close, but the details will not be apparent due to the disruption in the atmosphere (such as heat, water vapor, fog, etc.).
The professionals who use DSLR, choosing a large aperture telephoto lens f/2.8 lens even though the price is very expensive. Why? Since the large aperture lens can help overcome the above constraints. Telephoto lens with f/2.8 could put more light than f/5.6 lenses that prevent blur, preventing us to use the ISO too high and the bonus is that it can be more fun bokeh. Okay, forget about the bokeh. The ability of light to enter it important for a telephoto lens, why have a small aperture telephoto lens that can only be used when shooting in direct sunlight it?
There is no easy solution to be able to get a large aperture telephoto lens, especially at f/2.8 both DSLR or superzoom cameras. DSLR users have to spend nearly 20 million to be able to use the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens and that too large, heavy and remember: only 200mm its tele. In superzoom camera, no camera opening is constant f/2.8 throughout the focal length. Once around 2004, Panasonic greatly impressed me with its products Lumix FZ20 which has 12x zoom lens, 35-420mm. Which makes me admire the 5 MP camera that is its Leica lens has a constant aperture of f/2.8 35mm to 420mm. Once present successor of FZ30 and FZ150 on until last year, 2011, there is no longer a constant f/2.8 lens like the FZ20 yet. Panasonic change a variable aperture lens design, such as a clear f/2.8-3.7 disappointing.
Okay, so what is my point? I just want to tell that Lumix launch FZ200 yesterday made me excited, because finally Panasonic (after 8 years) makes another superzoom camera lens with constant f/2.8. This is the real long-awaited many photographers, superzoom cameras with constant f/2.8 lens. Okay, FZ200's just a small sensor camera that the picture is far less of a DSLR, and could not make bokeh like a DSLR. But at least, the Lumix FZ200 prove that constant f/2.8 lens should still be made, if you like. Other manufacturers seem unwilling, perhaps because it is expensive, or because it is not so selling marketing (the person who asked the aperture when buying a camera?).
Since you've read my writing to all this, as a complement to my present some security features of the Lumix FZ200's price is not known.
- sensors: MOS 12 MP, 1/2.3 inch size
- lens: Leica, 24x zoom, 25-600mm, f/2.8 max
- shoot up to 12 pictures per second
- manual mode, RAW, flash hot shoe
- Folding 3-inch LCD, electronic viewfinder which sharp
- full HD, stereo, AVCHD and MPEG4
The sensor is small, do not expect miracles at ISO 400 and above. But with the f/2.8 lens can be pursued in a variety of conditions using a low ISO, except if it is really low light (low light) then the f/2.8 lens camera to raise the ISO was still higher. Small sensor superzoom camera is not for use in low light conditions: (
But I give thumb to make the Leica zoom lens from ultra wide 25mm to super-tele 600mm in constant f/2.8 aperture FZ200 maximum at this time. If the operation of the optical zoom manually as in FZ30/FZ50 I would be speechless again. In fact zooming mechanism in the FZ200 is operated by sliding the lever on the side of the zoom lens and the motor will rotate the lens to move forward or backward. Another feature I still do not think it needs to be addressed because there is no complaint, all of the typical features of 2012 is complete, but no facilities smartphone wanna be: touch screen, GPS or WiFi.
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