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Posted by admin in I don’t know a focal plane from an aperture, but I would like a camera that will take photos from indoors with poor lighting to outdoors at higher end of the zoom range and wide angle shots giving good results with few manual adjustments, maybe ISO settings adjustments. These two cameras have some impressive reviews. I like the size of the Panasonic, the 18x zoom and face detection features of the Fugifilm, but these issues aside, which camera would take the best photos?
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If you choose the Panasonic, you will be able to use the most common memory card, the SD.
The Fujifilm camera uses xD cards only used by one other camera company
I’ve seen the demos on Fuji’s web site (and B&H Photo’s) and, I believe that the S8000 has so much to offer the photographer for his or her money.
My wife owns an S5000.
DO NOT buy the tz-3. It is indeed nice and small, but I’ve owned one for 5 days and was then able to return it, for cash (yes, a nice store). Why did I do this? Because the photos this camera takes are so noisy, and so often not quite in focus, that you end up with a HUGE disappointment!
So now, what do you want? If you want the flexibility, and an 18x zoom, I would not go for the Finepix, but instead for the Panasonic FZ-18 (which does not have all the issues of the TZ-3, and has an 18x zoom, 8mp, manual adjustements, stabilisation, etc).
If you want the portability, I think you should then settle for say a Canon IXUS, some models start at 28mm equivalent.
Finally, if you really want to do a lot of “poor lighting” photos, and without flash, then an FZ-18 or an IXUS will do the trick but then results won’t be very good quality as soon as you hit ISO 200 to 400. The only camera that will take good quality photos in low light, no flash, is a DSLR – but this has vast implications (budget, size, weight, need to exchange lenses, poor macro capability unless you buy very expensive lenses, lesser zoom range unless you buy expensive lenses, etc.).
I have owned a FZ-18 for nearly a month now. I am very happy with the lens (18x zoom starting at 28m, stabilised), with the in-camera correction of distorsions or aberrations (so you see pretty much no distorsions at 28mm), with the macro (down to 0.4 inch), with the quick autofocus (and ability to customise the AF points), with the full Manual settings if need be, with the easy menus, and with “live view” ie you can compose the shot on screen (something only the high end dslrs can do, and their kits start at over 1’500 dollars). All of this with a package that remains portable enough, that you can always have it with you, say in the small pocket of an Easypack backpack (which would not be the case with a dslr).
The only thing I am less happy with, is the image quality from about 400 ISO and up – oh you still get quite decent shots, that work in small format, but it’s not pristine quality.
hope this helps
Check reviews here …. http://www.dpreview.com/
go with the fuji