FZ200: Any Regrets?

Here's the simple logic

1) To get rid of all your lenses, and even those you still haven't got yet cause you can't afford them, you need a bridge camera with a super-zoom lens (25mm to 600m).

2) To put a super-zoom lens in a camera that is still affordable and doesn't weight 12 pounds, you must use a small sensor.

3) To use a small sensor means you will get noise (it's irrelevant whether one bridge camera has 40% more noise at such-and-such ISO... they all have noise that becomes visible long before we want i to).

4) To remove noise get a 3rd-party denoiser (Topaz or Neat Image). This easily gets you beautifully clean images shot at ISO 100-400, still quite clean at ISO 800, and still quite acceptable at ISO 1600.

Of course, you'll still need to play with the camera a fair bit to learn how to make it do best what you want it to, but once you get comfortable you can get some pretty nice results in a wide variety of shooting conditions.

Cheers,

Rudy

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The FZ200 - One step closer to bridging the gap.
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