dtgaf
Senior Member
I got the camera about 3 months ago and am very pleased with it. I have taken around 1500 photos with it. It is fast, easy to use, full-featured and produces very good pictures. Straight out of the camera the pics are a bit soft and a bit dull, but a touch of unsharp mask and color boost makes them very good indeed. Turn the contrast setting down to improve fine detail. I don't use the video function, so I won't judge the camera on this basis. I took pics of similar subjects with my other cameras (Konica Minolta A2, G500, Panasonic FZ20)and found the Z6 to compare favorably with them after a bit of sharpening and color boost. The images are quite noise-free in normal shooting situations with decent light. Low-light performance is good, provided there is a point of light or strong contrast for the camera to latch on to. The 12x optical zoom is wonderful, as is the macro and super-macro performance. The anti-shake feature works well and is a great help. The camera has lots of features and functions. Another nice feature is that accessories from my Minolta 7 and A2 work with this camera also--ac adapter and flash, AA batteries and charger. The battery life is very good; I got more than 350 shots from a set of 2600 batteries, maybe half with flash. Highly recommended.
You can examine some of my shots with the camera at
pbase. Do a camera search and it will show up. I put my URL here but it doesn't show up, for some reason.
Problems:
About chromatic aberration: I have had maybe 5 pics with chromatic aberration out of 1500 photos of all sorts. For me it has been a non-problem. The sd card door does NOT open as easily accidentally as some of the posters here suggest.
You can examine some of my shots with the camera at
pbase. Do a camera search and it will show up. I put my URL here but it doesn't show up, for some reason.
Problems:
About chromatic aberration: I have had maybe 5 pics with chromatic aberration out of 1500 photos of all sorts. For me it has been a non-problem. The sd card door does NOT open as easily accidentally as some of the posters here suggest.