My backup favorites

My nightmare occurred in November in Spain: After approx. 2,200 fantastic images gave my FZ 28 the ghost and I was able to capture the remaining vacation days, the super motives only by mobile phone: Creepy!

Looking for a "backup" camera for the holidays, I came across the TZ 7 - and I love the little thing!
The wide angle is fantastic and recorded surprisingly little, the message is to keep thanks to super-fine image stabilizer free hand, even in lower light.

Even night shots are super. (Recording time unfortunately limited to 8 sec.).

My videos are both in sound (Dolby Stereo) as well as in the picture very well, but AVCHD is the nightmare for my PC when I want to edit.

The flash is actually relatively weak, but because you can help: Manual can be dei brightness of a recording yes to +/- 2 EV adjust, and if you want to have a bright flash photograph, one can thus be handled very well. At full correction to + 2 EV flash photography is almost too bright, so that all the desired imaging properties are achieved.

If my beloved FZ 28 (which was, incidentally, repaired with exemplary service of Panasonic) times should be gone on future trips just not at hand or stolen or in the pool, I get with the TZ7 results, which certainly with the results of the FZ 28 can measure.

Since I still have a TZ3, I have done in diverse lighting situations 60 compared images (jew. Tele and WW).
Result: None of the images of the TZ3 was better than one of the TZ7 images; the quality difference in favor of the TZ7 varies from "easy" with very good lighting and contrast (because stop are both very good) to "strongly" in backlit situations. Apparently you've done in the TZ7 something in the remuneration, so that contrast and coloration are better by several times than the TZ3.

A blue tint as my Vorrezensent I could not find - possibly incorrect white balance? Charging time about an hour, the number of images on a single charge about 300. Where should there be a problem?

Negative I find, however, also the special battery with chip (Replacement battery cost me so unfortunately 39.00 EUR) as well as the delay in releasing the videos.

The quality of the results does not justify it but to award only 4 stars, realistic would be 4.5 ...
Since that is not possible here, I forgive 5 star, linked to a clear buy recommendation.