If you get a Panny, the fz-35 was the best superzoom they made IMO. Probably the best superzoom ever. IQ at ISO 100-200 is not bad. Especially if you shoot RAW. The Panny JPEG engine is well known for turning photographs into watercolors. At 400 it starts to creep in pretty good, but you can still get images suitable for smaller prints. The lens on the fz-28/fz-35 is sharpest around f4 and is very usable wide open, which is f2.8 at the wide end. Diffraction starts kicking in at f5 anyways, so you have a fairly limited fstop range to work with to begin with. Much like the Q. The image stabilization on those cameras is really, really good too. How many sharp shots can you get with your pentax at 1/20s @ 500mm? I carried one of these cameras everywhere for a few years and they served me rather well. The video off the fz-35 was quite decent in good light too. Only 720p though.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a shame they went to an even noisier sensor. I haven't tried shooting > the V-Lux at anything over ISO 100 so far. At what point does the noise > start to really degrade the image? > > I really do like the lens a lot. If I found an exceptional deal on a gently > used one of those Panasonic somewhere, I'd be sorely tempted to buy it as a > lightweight carry-around for snapshots. > > -- Walt > > > On 6/27/2013 2:24 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: >> >> I had both a panasonic fz-28 and fz-35. I think the v-lux 1 is the >> same as an fz-50. They all had great, great optics that more than made >> up for the noisy sensors panny was using. When they switched from CCD >> to MOS (which gave even worse quality) I quit buying them and bought >> my first DSLR. I've made some really nice prints from those cameras. >> >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> My pal, Dan, loaned me his Leica V-Lux 1 for a couple of weeks just to >>> kick >>> the tires on it a bit. >>> >>> I have to say, for a point and shoot, I'm pretty impressed. The build >>> quality is no great shakes, and it definitely lacks the responsiveness of >>> a >>> DSLR. >>> >>> But, so far, the glass seems really, /really/ nice. >>> >>> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/9152060941/ >>> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/9152060027/ >>> >>> -- Walt >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
