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Many more features than my previous Panasonic

Started Mar 9, 2013 | User reviews
smart mart
smart mart New Member • Posts: 9
Many more features than my previous Panasonic

I've had my WB850F for a month and was starting to find my way around the many features and options, that is compared to my previous Panasonic FH20. I've been a Panasonic fan for many years but poor marketing here led me to buy the Samsung, which coincidentally follows purchases of a TV, mobile phone and monitor, all Samsung.
Unfortunately I had a bit of an accident. On pulling it out of my jeans pocket I think I must have pushed the on button extending the lens barrel which then must have been pushed back in unnoticed in order to get the camera out of my pocket. I only noticed there was something wrong when I switched the camera on later, the outer barrel was half stuck out and the inner barrel was loose inside, and I got an error message on the screen. It's in for repair. I hope not too much damage was done.
I was starting to like the camera a lot, especially the Amoled screen, nice video, slo mo video, and the many many other features, so I'm going to give it 4 stars, on expectations. Oh, one gripe. The bottom corners of fairly close pictures 'bent away' (quite badly I thought). Someone told me that was because of the wide angle lens and I should step back a bit ???

 smart mart's gear list:smart mart's gear list
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 Samsung WB850F
Samsung WB850F
16 megapixels • 3 screen • 23 – 483 mm (21×)
Announced: Jan 9, 2012
smart mart's score
3.5
Average community score
3.9
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH2 (Lumix DMC-FS16) Samsung WB850F
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