I got myself the camera due to the rotatable display and the better video recording (in front of a day - not at Amazon).
You should replace a Panasonic DMC-FZ38.
Unfortunately, I'll give it back, because the image quality (no matter what attitudes, motives, inside, outside, with and without flash) does not come up to the my previous camera.
Not change even the great video mode (I film a lot with my camera) and not the larger zoom.
If the image quality would be least EQUAL, I could live with it.
But in the automatic mode when shooting indoors with and without flash, the camera produces a lot of "mud" - ie finer details are not shown, contours are blurred.
I have now spent a few hours with comparative photographs.
An alternative does not exist for me, as the FZ150 currently represents the top of the currently available bridge cameras (in my opinion made a number of hours researching).
Comparable cameras always have a (for me) immediate exclusion criterion - eg Canon SX40HS strong push sounds in the video mode (tested), Nikon P510 has in Video mode when zooming a nonexistent or poor AF Tracking (tested).
That leaves the SONY HX200 - but since the image quality is not to come close to the FZ150 (read).
Of course you can hinbekommen with the infinite number of settings, an approximately the same result as with the FZ38.
But honestly - for the money I want to but the pictures do not deteriorate.
If I wöllte me deal with the topic photography, then I would probably eventually anyway end up with a single-lens reflex camera.
I want to pull the trigger and make without large to consider beautiful photos (possibly with a lot of Zoom) in every situation in automatic mode.
And that, the two year old predecessor FZ38 unfortunately better.
So I'm Still Waiting - maybe there is some point a "panacea" for me as an amateur.
Or does one of the experts a comparable camera for me (with my tending towards zero interest for photographic tweaking)?
Price does not matter ... ;-)))
