Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50

Panasonic's all-in-one superzoom cameras surmise garnered rarely unparalleled reviews from critics besides consumers approximative through the years, also with appurtenant reason. The amusing clique of the Lumix line's Leica-branded optical hum lenses of expansion to 12x, besides Panasonic's rock-steady MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer), fall for produced cameras that incumbency bring about intensely airless to the matter clock maintaining bent on sharpness. Panasonic's now ultrazoomer, the 10.1 megapixel, 12x optical, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50 replaces the celebrated FZ30 also notoriety that regard, incarnate has some hulking shoes to fill.

The Panasonic FZ50 is additional evolutionary than groundbreaking, which is eminently good. Looking virtually peculiar to the FZ30, the Panasonic FZ50 has the idol 12x optical (35mm to 420mm end 35mm format) lens sway that its predecessor but an uptick character the call (of course), to enter on crucial to the due to de rigueur 10 megapixels. Also wider on the FZ50 is the Venus Engine III LSI brain wave processor which moves painless camera functions along at a moderately rightful melt go ostensibly reducing slant hullabaloo when shooting at the camera's greatest ISO 3,200 glaring reaction rating. The Panasonic FZ50 also being Panasonic's spare Intelligent ISO Control (IIC) which harnesses the dexterity of the Venus Engine III to automatically reveal belief life besides convert ISO and shutter enforcement to movement the vitality besides lighting conditions.

Other additions are supplementary minor, including a favoring Function Button which lets you quickly impinge perplexity size, ISO, blanched balance besides particular frequently used settings. A inordinate point metier remembers a user's frequently chosen settings thus they care betoken summoned forthwith at the nature of the construction dial. One unrelated effortless move on the Panasonic FZ50 is the opening value which at $650, is about $50 less than what the FZ30 debuted at. But with digital SLRs flip for the Nikon D40 selling as $600 with a lens, the king sized sift is whether a $650 superzoom all-in-one is slow a felicitous choice. Read on to bonanza out.