It is difficult to see how a 720mm equiv shining on the 18mp crammed on to a 1/2.3" sensor is going to blow anything away least of all a recent more sensibly configured 12mp on a 1/1.7"sensor camera. The sensor may have improved though and seeing the Raw coming off such a small densely populated sensor will be interesting.
The ZS35 sounds the more sensible option.
I know none of us has yet had a chance to shoot with or handle the new ZS40.
I wonder how it compares to the LF1.
Heading on vacation next month and had been contemplating the LF1 to go with my G6....
but now the ZS40 seems on equal footing (or have I missed something).
Thanks
Bohdan
As the ZS40 will have an EVF and a 24 - 720mm lens, it will blow the LF1 away, IMHO, if its IQ is equal to or greater than the current ZS19 - ZS30 series cameras' IQs.
Let's hope so.
Joel
Greynerd,
Sometimes specs are just specs with no significant difference in real world usage. Several photographers on this site have produced images using ZS series cameras that easily equal or exceed anything i have seen coming out of an LF1 camera. The proof is in the output, not rhetoric or specs.
Let's wait until we see images produced before drawing any conclusions as to what these new cameras are capable of.
Joel
In good light image quality may be very close in the LF1 zoom ranges. But your indoor shots will all need flash or a very still subject. I am sure the ZS40 will be fine for some, but it will never match the LF1 in low light at 28mm and the LF1 will have a slight advantage on higher ISO's needed when zoomed. The reality most photo beyond the range of the LF1 are going to be mediocre at best.
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Well, not so fast, there -
- I haven't seen any significantly better IQ from LF1 shots posted online than my ZS25 can produce - and the Canon S-100 with a 1.7 sensor is actually lower in IQ than the ZS25.
The LF1 is simply left at the starting gate compared to the ZS25 - I wasn't personally even tempted.
There's a lot of "opinion" in assessing IQ but since I have traveled extensively with just a ZS19 until I broke the lens, and now have an equally good ZS25, for MY purposes, the ZS40 may well be a giant leap forward for the following reasons:
-EVF
-Slightly larger sensor, not that this is necessarily a game changing difference.
-Still has PASM
-Manual focus (not that a person can focus more accurately than the camera), but now locking focus for Panoramas and close-ups or the sacred "low light" picture will be worlds easier.
-Level gauge
-920,000 dot screen with NO #$%^&* TOUCH FUNCTION
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Even more "Recording Telescope" Zoom !
And all that with only a tiny increase in size - if the EVF is good enough
you won't have to hear me pointing out the advantages of the Clearviewer - but the tripod socket is still in the center so I can use mine without having to get another to fit the offset socket of, say, the Lumix LX7.
Honest, Panasonic never asked me, but somehow they pretty well answered my wish list.
The "Pocketlint" review wanted a touch screen, but IMHO, that would have been a negative, unless it could have been shut off altogether.
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