The FZ has me excited simultaneously with its huge zoom range, the light weight and the folding screen. The automatic was very good and the PASM modes helped me a lot to understand aperture and shutter speed and be able to apply in practice.
Unfortunately, I bugged the relatively small image sensor, which very quickly encountered in low-light to its limits and at ISO 1600 provides very noisy pictures. Again went autofocus quickly to its knees, pictures were often blurred was the miniature exhibition in Hamburg a true endurance test => Here I learned what it means to dominate a camera.
Still, I had fun, watching the wildlife photography was fun with the Mega-zoom, the swiveling display and the good imaging performance under good lighting conditions.
Then the first compact system cameras arrived. The G3 knocked me off my feet already, because even smaller and lighter weight housing made her what. Then priceless Unfortunately for me, this new system camera.
Shortly afterwards came the grandiose G5 ..... I asked myself the question: Do you really want to hurt you that? Interchangeable lenses?
Now that I've slammed, and bought a barely used G5 here.
OPTICS:
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Narrow, light and very solid processed. Simply sees in black from strong. The plastic on the top looks a bit cheaper, the ridged pattern reminded me strongly of the Sony's ^^
The buttons are not as strong on "radio alarm level" as yet in the FZ150.
Touch screen:
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The swivel screen Panasonic has not verschlimmbessert, this just works always impeccable. The touch screen is cool, but only interesting for the photographing with the tripod, especially when the display is tilted. I used here again the antiglare film of atFoliX! This fits perfectly and reduced sunlight.
SEARCH:
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The resolution has been set higher markedly, it is even more fun to use the viewfinder, colors are well reproduced. Especially in strong sunlight I use the viewfinder, because even the best film anything.
HANDLING:
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Who cameras is already used with classic side handle, will feel at home immediately. Nevertheless, the camera is not as clunky as it looks and can be worn loosely in one hand.
LENSES:
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In terms of size super slim and easy! Here you can make full use of its advantage MFT. Here are just the Pana lenses more expensive (as the example of Olympus), as Pana builds the stabilization in the lenses and not into the body. This is the body's turn more favorable (see Olympus E-M10 body => good 500-600 euros).
I have bought the Lumix G Vario 45-150 to the kit lens, because I like to do wildlife photography in the zoo's / wildlife park / nature.
The zoom is compared to the bridge camera a joke, however, is the pure image quality much better and on DSLR levels. Here you can still see strong zoom and operate pixelpeeping, make Bildauschnitte and enjoy great pictures!
The stabilizer also works very well when the flap falls, usually a razor sharp image on the SD card lands. Even in low light! Finally, I can sometimes make good pictures at night without a tripod.
BATTERY:
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Following good 1400 pictures in JPEG format is final. That was better with the Bridge, because these held by a whopping 2000 images, but somewhere must the excellent imaging performance stop taking their toll. I have anyway always a (Nachbau-) spare battery with you and brings me down easy.
FLASH:
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Not as bad as the print magazines say. Suitable for all eventualities. I've bought a Nissin 663 to the his service better done just for portraits.
CONCLUSION:
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WOW!
System camera's are just great: They are lightweight, space-saving, the lenses are also compact. The image quality does not have to hide behind consumer DSLR's. Priced course I had to dig deeper into their pocket, because a telephoto you have to definitely buy it. But it was worth it, even low-light Photografie makes you feel good. Bye Bridge! Hello MFT!
