Honest FZ30 review Now that is testing.

AmanitaM said:

Will shooting in RAW help to avoid this problem to some extent?

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Duane Bong said:

RAW will help avoid the poor quality NR of the FZ30. NR tools on
the PC are a lot better (since they have virtually unlimited
processing power to use). So you can avoid the damage to fine
detail with RAW. But the high noise levels are still inherent to
the poor sensor design itself. Panasonic's pixel quality really
peaked with the 4MP sensor of the FZ10 and has declined since then.
I always wished the FZ series would incorporate Fuji's superCCD.
That would be the ultimate point and shoot.

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GregGory said:

llife said:

I own a FZ10 and FZ30 and have noticed that the image is not as
crisp / sharp as my FZ10. If it were not for excessive noise and
too much image softening with onboard noise suppression the FZ30
would be the Camera of the Decade.

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Your FZ10 might have better pixel/ pixel (read pixel-peeping)
sharpness, but in absolute terms the FZ30's resolution is in a
different league.

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GregGory said:

MightyMike said:

I disagree... as a photographer who likes to choose my own settings
and doesn't like to give control over to the cameras internal
programming i feel i get better results... if i were to leave it up
to the camera it would too often be wron

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I think Robiro does have a point. It's not a 'biased' review, but
measuring the resolution at F8 is not very logical. How often does
one use a superzoom at F8? If they choose not to measure at the
sweet spot then they should have gone for max. aperture, which
will get used much MUCH more often on a superzoom. Less than 2% of
my shots are done with minimum aperture. Max aperture is used more
than 40% of the time.

Eg. measuring noise in a car at the red line is not very relevant
either.

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llife said:

GregGory said:

MightyMike said:

I disagree... as a photographer who likes to choose my own settings
and doesn't like to give control over to the cameras internal
programming i feel i get better results... if i were to leave it up
to the camera it would too often be wron

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I think Robiro does have a point. It's not a 'biased' review, but
measuring the resolution at F8 is not very logical. How often does
one use a superzoom at F8? If they choose not to measure at the
sweet spot then they should have gone for max. aperture, which
will get used much MUCH more often on a superzoom. Less than 2% of
my shots are done with minimum aperture. Max aperture is used more
than 40% of the time.

Eg. measuring noise in a car at the red line is not very relevant
either.

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FZ10 F8 ISO 100 1/125

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llife said:

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One should see with their vision. http://lovelife.smugmug.com/

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Erik37 said:

(but you don't have to SHOUT

F8 means diffraction, the other three have
bigger or much bigger sensors so they aren't
as hurt by f8 as the FZ30.

Incompetence by the reviewer. Maybe he's
no photographer?

Just my two öre
Erik from Sweden, F Z 5 owner
The only free lunch in photography: O I S

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GregGory said:

Yes, but the F10/ F11 sensor would only give around 5.3 mp in the
FZ30. That's plenty for me and most people in this forum, but
unfortunately Pany has to sell tons of these cameras, and in the
MP-war guess what, only MPs count...

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