V3 Please show your best pictures

[Mark Valentine]

I'm thinking of purchasing the Panasonic Z-20 12x Zoom or the Sony V3.
Anyone thoughts please,
Mark

 

[OCJohn]

Well, if you want a full featured relatively compact camera that uses CF cards, buy the V3. If you want a larger camera with an awesome zoom, get the FZ20.... ;-)

Here's a link to my pbase account which includes some V3 pictures I took -- not necesarily my best, but shot indoors at a very dark restaurant -- as well as some taken Sunday outdoors. http://www.pbase.com/ocjohn/

Note that the first two gallaries were taken with the KM A2 I took back in favor of the V3.

John.

I'm thinking of purchasing the Panasonic Z-20 12x Zoom or the Sony V3.
Anyone thoughts please,
Mark

 

[Mark Valentine]

Here's a link to my pbase account which includes some V3 pictures I
took -- not necesarily my best, but shot indoors at a very dark
restaurant -- as well as some taken Sunday outdoors.
http://www.pbase.com/ocjohn/

Note that the first two gallaries were taken with the KM A2 I took
back in favor of the V3.

John.

I'm thinking of purchasing the Panasonic Z-20 12x Zoom or the Sony V3.
Anyone thoughts please,
Mark

Thank you, John very nice pictures

 

[DocG]

Some of the pictures are very nice, but the red eye in a number of the "party" pictures (especially look at the top row, second picture from the right, the guy in the middle's eyes) is terrible. Unlike some cameras that either have minimal red-eye or give you the option of correcting it in-camera, I don't believe that Sony provides the latter option. Am I wrong?

Here's a link to my pbase account which includes some V3 pictures I
took -- not necesarily my best, but shot indoors at a very dark
restaurant -- as well as some taken Sunday outdoors.
http://www.pbase.com/ocjohn/

Note that the first two gallaries were taken with the KM A2 I took
back in favor of the V3.

John.

I'm thinking of purchasing the Panasonic Z-20 12x Zoom or the Sony V3.
Anyone thoughts please,
Mark

Thank you, John very nice pictures

 

[RDJC]

Here are some of my V3 pics, these are by no means my best pics: majority of these are indoor "party" shots taken in low-light situations:

http://rdjc.smugmug.com/gallery/267614
http://rdjc.smugmug.com/gallery/268617
http://rdjc.smugmug.com/gallery/284580

I'm thinking of purchasing the Panasonic Z-20 12x Zoom or the Sony V3.
Anyone thoughts please,
Mark

 

[halpren]

You might want to wait for Phils review. Dcresource has demonstrated that pics taken with the V3 at wide apertures are very soft (compared to the Canon G6) and some of the inital high contrast photos posted seem to indicate a high level of PF/CA. Phil should be able to give us the scoop on this soon.

I'm thinking of purchasing the Panasonic Z-20 12x Zoom or the Sony V3.
Anyone thoughts please,
Mark

 

[Meryl Arbing]

I'm thinking of purchasing the Panasonic Z-20 12x Zoom or the Sony V3.
Anyone thoughts please,
Mark

 

[OCJohn]

Yes, very bad redeye -- weak flash combined with location directly above and close to lens. The V3 has standard redeye reduction flash mode, but doesn't have any other redeye correction (that I am aware of, anyway). I plan on buying an external flash. (And I still can't believe they'd put such a crummy flash on a $700 camera.)

Some of the pictures are very nice, but the red eye in a number of
the "party" pictures (especially look at the top row, second
picture from the right, the guy in the middle's eyes) is terrible.
Unlike some cameras that either have minimal red-eye or give you
the option of correcting it in-camera, I don't believe that Sony
provides the latter option. Am I wrong?

 

[Neil Garner]

Hi,

I got my V3 mainly for shots in the dark, best photo so far is linked below. Night framing is brill for the taker of the shot as it was taken in the pitch dark.

------www.perfectcast.co.uk/camera/DSC00129.JPG------

Overall I think it's a fantastic camera, no more low light focusing problems.

for those who dont carp fish then yes it was returned none the worse for wear to fight another day as is always the case in the UK.

--
Cheers Neil.

 

[Douglas Brown]

Here's a link to my best V3 photos:

http://public.fotki.com/V3DLB/best_v3_photos/my_best_v3_pictures/

The V3 is a great camera.

 

[Stuart]

Can anyone comment on image quality of V3 vs FZ20 ?

Stuart

I'm thinking of purchasing the Panasonic Z-20 12x Zoom or the Sony V3.
Anyone thoughts please,
Mark