Lumix DMC-FZ20

Lumix DMC-FZ20

As with the conventional LUMIX models, the DMC-FZ20 battery incorporates LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens that promises high resolution and low aberration images. The use of 3 aspherical lenses, which Panasonic boasts its in-house manufacturing know-how, accomplish conspicuous downsizing even with 12x optical zoom model, li-ion cga-s002 battery. The ED lens contributes to suppress the color aberration that often occurs in telephoto shots.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20 is a 5-megapixel digital camera with a high-quality Leica 12x optical zoom and cga-s002 battery. The Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 12x zoom is equivalent to a 36 – 432mm zoom on a 35mm camera and has a constant F2.8 brightness throughout the entire zoom range.The DMC-FZ20 features Program AE, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual exposure modes as well as Macro, Portrait, Sports, Panning and Night Portrait picture modes.

Design of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20 (black)
With its bulbous, oversize lens, the Panasonic Lumix FZ20 looks like a can of beef stew with a camera welded onto one end, Its own cga-s002 battery can supply 3 hours shotting time. It’s also front-heavy; since the right-hand grip is thin and short, the camera feels somewhat awkward to handle. The black-painted, plastic body, which weighs 1 pound, 4.5 ounces with its battery and SD card installed, powerful cga-s002 batery seems adequately constructed with a tolerable heft for a megazoom model.

Performance of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20 (black)

Panasonic touts the performance benefits of the FZ20’s Venus II image-processing chip, and our performance testing largely bears out the company’s claims. The camera’s 4.4-second start-up time is a bit long, but its shot-to-shot time is relatively quick: typically 1.2 seconds with decent light and as little as 1.8 seconds with flash and last for 3 hours with cga-s002. Even TIFF shots were surprisingly zippy: it took just under 4 seconds from one shot to the next. The fastest burst shooting mode snapped 3.6 frames per second, for 4 shots, but if you’re willing to slow down to about 2fps, the camera can shoot without pausing until your card fills. Shutter delay with autofocus isn’t quite so impressive–0.9 seconds in all light–but we measured it at less than 0.1 second using manual focus, DMW-BM7.cga-s002

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Major DMC-FZ20 Features:

• 5-megapixel effective CCD for images up to 2560 x 1920 pixels
• Leica DC-VARIO ELMARIT 12x zoom, equivalent to 36-432mm on a 35mm camera
• Optical image stabilization to help prevent camera shake and blurring
• Venus Engine II LSI for robust camera operations
• Mega Burst continuous capture @ 3 or 2fps up to 7 images (4 in Fine mode)
• Macro focus with autofocus down to 1.9 inches
• 2.0-inch TFT color monitor with 130,000 pixels
• Eye level color electronic viewfinder with dioptric adjustment
• Program AE, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual modes
• Macro, Portrait, Sports, Panning, Night Portrait picture modes
• High Speed and Low Speed Continuous, AE Bracketing and Timelapse modes
• 320 x 240 QuickTime movies, 30fps or 10fps w/audio
• Shutter speeds from 1/2000 to 8 seconds (Shutter priority and Manual modes)
• Built-in flash with auto, fill, slow synchro and red-eye reduction modes
• Intelligent Multiple and Spot exposure metering
• TTL Auto White Balance, 5 presets and custom set
• Secure Digital memory card slot, 16MB card included
• Plug-n-Play USB, Mass Storage compliant
• PictBridge Direct-Print compatible
• Li-ion cga-s002 , DMW-BM7 rechargeable battery and rapid charger included

Though the Panasonic FZ20 (DMW-BM7)’s lens makes the camera look and feel awkward, it is the most remarkable fixed-lens optical system in the digital camera world. It incorporates an optically-stabilized 12X Leica DC Vario-Elmarit zoom, which covers the range from 36mm to 432mm (35mm equivalent). A 12X zoom lens that only goes as wide as 36mm–especially a Leica–seems almost a tragedy, but telephoto junkies will rejoice. The optical stabilization makes the extreme telephoto focal lengths feasible in a digital camera that most people will normally shoot handheld.

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