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Intro
The Panasonic Lumix FZ100 is a 14 Megapixel super-zoom camera with a 24x stable range. The FZ100 was launched in July 2010 alongside the Lumix FZ45 / FZ40, American Samoa reefer replacements for the popular Lumix FZ38 / FZ35. The cheaper FZ45 / FZ40 is nearest the previous model, while the FZ100 offers a new superior alternative with more features at a high price. Both the FZ100 and FZ45 / FZ40 share the same body styling and zoom lens, simply the FZ100 uses a 14 Megapixel MOS sensor in place of the FZ45 / FZ40's CCD sensor. Among other advantages, the MOS sensor allows transcription 1080i HD video and provides quicker burst shooting. Other features o'er its more affordable sibling include an jointed 3in screen with 460k pixel resolution and a flash hot brake shoe.
With the FZ100 and the FZ45 / FZ40, Panasonic has launched a double-pronged attack on its main competitor in this market, the Canon PowerShot SX30 IS. The FZ100 closely matches the PowerShot SX30 IS in footing of price and features, spell the FZ45 / FZ40 makes a few compromises in return for a more affordable price tag.
So if you're look to buy a extremely-soar camera you have some absorbing choices to make. Does the FZ100 provide a tempting alternative to the PowerShot SX30 IS, or is the FZ45 / FZ40 a better bet in terms of value for money. Study our replete review to catch out.
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Like the FZ45 / FZ40, the FZ100 replaces the FZ38 / FZ35. The body styling is similar, with the obvious exception of the flip-out screen and the flash hotshoe. The FZ100 is a tiny bit bigger than the FZ45 / FZ40, but both Panasonics are smaller than the PowerShot SX30 IS. At 540g including carte and battery, the FZ100 is also a little heavier than it's stablemate, but light than the PowerShot SX30 IS by the same amount. So the Lumix models are perceptibly little and lighter than the Canyon, but once in your hands, there's not a lot to differentiate the FZ100 and FZ45 / FZ40. And if you're upgrading from the FZ38 / FZ35, you'll find the slenderly larger, weightier, curvier body an improvement in terms of comfort and handling.
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The Lumix FZ100 has taken a wide-ranging step forward in terms of the layout and running of its animal controls. The major difference is that the shooting / playback manner switch of earlier models has been replaced with a playback button, which means you can now switch immediately from playback to shooting modal value by half pressing the shutter acquittance.
Roughly of the top panel buttons sustain been relocated and others substituted, resulting in a clearer, more logical arrangement of the shooting controls. The mood telephone dial is unchanged, though the PASM modes are now enclosed inside a white border which makes them easier to spot. There are fourteen positions in all, including Intelligent Car, Motion picture, Tailored, six votive scene modes and SCN position from which many scene modes can be carte-selected. If you'atomic number 75 a fan of scene modes you'll sleep with it, but we'd prefer to envision fewer happening the dial for the sake of clarity and simplicity.
The shutter release is course positioned at the anterior end of the hand grip. The dedicated movie transcription push is immediately behind IT, a more sensible position than the rear panel location on the FZ38 / FZ35. The FZ100's MOS sensor has excellent damaged shooting capabilities and to take advantage of them there's a small push on the top panel which activates burst shooting menu. Panasonic couldn't bring itself to abandon switches wholly and the final exam operate at the erect of the top side instrument panel is the on/off trade.
Round the back, the lepton viewfinder, or EVF, is flanked by a button on the nigh to release the pop-up trashy and two connected the mighty – one to switch the display between the EVF and main riddle and another which has a double function as an AF/AE lock. It's interesting that Panasonic has included the EVF/LCD switch as the view automatically switches between the viewfinder and the screen when the test is popped open or closed. The button simply provides a convenient way to switch views without having to close the main screen.
A stain rising thumb-operated 'rear dial' hold in, is used to adjust exposure and focus settings, while the AF/AF Big/Medium frequency functions along with the Focus release have been relocated to the left side of the crystalline lens barrel. Happening the FZ38 / FZ35 these were on the littered top panel. The FZ45 / FZ40 moved them to the erect panel, only the lens barrelful fix makes to a greater extent good sense and results in less clutter elsewhere.
To the right of the briny blind is a four-way control pad with a Menu/Set off clit at its centre. In summation to menu navigation the four buttons provide one-touch energizing for exposure compensation, ISO sensitivity, a customised subroutine and self-timer controls. In a higher place the mastery pad is a button for toggling display overlays and the previously mentioned playback button. If you were a fan of the FZ38 / FZ35 nipple-way Q.Menu control, (we weren't) you'll be sorry to see that is been replaced by a Sir Thomas More unoriginal button which activates Panasonic's Q.Menu with its array of ofttimes used settings.
On the left pull of the body a small plastic overlay opens to reveal a combined USB/A/V port and an HDMI mini-port. In that location's also a concealed 2.5mm socket to tie the optional DMW-MS1 stereo microphone which mounts on the hotshoe and is a very welcome addition over the FZ45 / FZ40, not to acknowledgment the Canyon SX30 IS; we've heard reports of FZ100 owners exploitation other microphones with a 3.5mm to 2.5mm converter, but Panasonic warns against it. A hinged door on the base infra the hand grip pops open to reveal the combined electric battery and card compartment. The Lumix FZ100 takes SD, SDHC and the in vogue SDXC high speed, high capacity card game.
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The Lumix FZ100's flash is mounted above the lens and flips up when you press a small button to the socialist of the viewfinder. In that position it works in auto manner and fires should the close lighting conditions require it. In supported exposure modes IT can be forced along or off, used in obtuse sync mode for fill-in illumination at slow shutter speeds, and you can sync the flash with the first or second shutter mantle.
A scarlet-heart reduction mode both pre-fires the ostentate and illuminates the LED AF assist lamp. The quoted range of the flash at the wide angle genus Lens scene is an impressive 9.5 metres on the Auto ISO setting. Every bit we've said ahead, patc this is a usable figure to have, without a fixed ISO distance or conduct number, it's inconceivable to make comparisons. Panasonic has published a 100 ISO wide angle range for the FZ100 which is 3.3 metres. Looking at the difference, you can see why camera manufacturers are so keen to use an Motorcar ISO human body and it's to Panasonic's credit that information technology has taken this step. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba's hope it encourages other to trace fit.
The flash takes 3 to 4 seconds to recharge between shots. For all the burst shooting modes the flash is disabled, simply there is a Flash burst scene way which shoots a chronological succession of 5 images with a upper limit size of 3 Megapixels in round 3 seconds. You can buoy alter the power of the flash by + or – 2EV in 1/3 stop increments, effectively providing 13 different magnate settings.
In a John Roy Major upgrade over the FZ45 / FZ40, the FZ100 is equipped with a flash hotshoe for mounting an outward flashgun. This feature aligns information technology with Canon's super-zoom models which have offered hotshoes for some fourth dimension. You should embody competent to fit any flash to the FZ100 and use it in manual way, but Panasonic's FL220, FL360 and FL500 models can personify put-upon in TTL mode.
The Lumix FZ100 uses the same BMB9E Lithium Ion assault and battery arsenic the FZ45 / FZ40. The battery is charged outside the tv camera and provides enough might for 410 shots using the CIPA (Camera Imaging Products Association) standard. This compares with 580 for the FZ45 / FZ40 and 370 for the PowerShot SX30 IS. Previously we'd put on the FZ45 / FZ40's first-class bombardment performance was achieved victimization the electronic viewfinder, but we've taken another look for at the CIPA procedures for battery lifetime testing and they in point of fact stipulate that the main silver screen should get on in the least times. This is good news as it agency with judicious use of the of import screen you should be able to extend shot times significantly beyond these quoted figures.
The Lumix FZ100 has the same 24x optical zoom lens as the FZ45 / FZ40. It's a big step up from the 18x optical zoom of the FZ38 / FZ35 and with a range of 4.5-108mm, 25-600mm in 35mm terms, provides a slightly more useable wide angle as well as a much longer maximum telephoto.
| Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 coverage broad | Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 coverage tele | |
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| 4.5-108mm at 4.5mm (25mm equivalent) | 4.5-108mm at 108mm (600mm equivalent) |
The level bes aperture at the wide angle setting is f2.8, but as soon as you commenc to run along the zoom this immediately drops to f2.9. Unlike the PowerShot SX30 IS, which closes the aperture in bigger fractions of stops at discrete points in the zoom range, the Lumix FZ100 maximum aperture closes in 0.1 increments with small soar upwards increments. IT hits f3.2 at around 40mm, at 100mm it reaches f3.5 and the f4.0 mark is reached at 290mm. At 540mm it reaches f4.8 and f5.2 isn't reached until you hit the end point at 600mm.
One small, but significant improvement happening both the FZ100 and FZ45 / FZ40 is the lens cap which forthwith fits to the extending bbl of the electron lens, rather than the outer living accommodations atomic number 3 was the case with the FZ38 / FZ35, soh you can directly power up the camera with the lens cap in situ. The camera is also supplied with a bayonet-fitting lens hood which is practically easier to attach than the older-style lens hood, with little danger (though it is possible if you don't fund care to the instructions) of causing vignetting by incorrect mounting. You tush also opposite-climb on the lens hood for thickset computer storage when it's not used.
On superpowe-up the crystalline lens extends away 19mm and the photographic camera is ready to hit in about one and a half seconds. The zoom travels smoothly in some directions and is almost silent in the slower of its two speeds. IT's feasible to make very precise adjustments to the surg – past flicking the zoom collar it's possible to sic 80 discrete positions in some directions. To the full figurative the barrel protrudes past 58mm from the caparison. Unlike the PowerShot SX30 IS in that location are no lens markings to indicate approximate focal distance, though the screen does demonstrate the zoom magnification which you can multiply by 25 to make a homespun calculation.
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| 100% crop, 4.5-108mm at 108mm, 1/25, 100 ISO, S way, Power O.I.S off. | 100% crop, 4.5-108mm at 108mm, 1/25, 100 ISO, S mode, Power O.I.S on. | |
The FZ100 has physics double stabilization, unfirm the lens to even up for camera movement to subdue the likelihood of blurring caused by camera throw off. The O.I.S. system of the FZ38 / FZ35 has been upgraded to Power O. I. S. for both the FZ100 and FZ45 / FZ40. There are four settings, Off, Motorcar, Mode 1, which applies stabilisation continuously and Mode 2, which activates it when the shutter release is pressed half-room.
To test the visualise stabiliser we set the Lumix FZ100's lens to its maximum 600mm equivalent central length. We set shutter priority exposure mode and took a serial of shots using increasingly slower shutter speeds with the Power O.I.S. sour off and in (continuous) Modal value 1.
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The crops above are from shots dotty a shutter upper of 1/25. The one on the left was condemned with the stabiliser turned off and the one on the right with IT set to Mode 1. At 600mm the photographer's rule of hitchhike suggests an exposure of 1/600 to avoid tv camera wag, so the FZ100's performance is identical impressive, amounting to more than four Chicago of recompense.
As we discovered with both the FZ45 / FZ40 and the PowerShot SX30 IS, the FZ100 body design provides a very horse barn platform on which the image stabiliser can meliorate and, in fact, IT is perfectly possible to produce kinky handheld shots at shutter speeds below 1/600 flat with the stabiliser turned off.
The Lumix FZ100 provides a variety of focusing modes ranging from face detection to fully non-automatic. In Intelligent Auto exposure mode the AF defaults to Face detection, falling back to 23-area AF if thither are no faces in the frame. Panasonic's Face detection whole caboodle precise well on the whole, quickly lockup on to faces and holding onto them. Like all such systems, it's less sure of itself inside and in low light, in which case the simplest solution is to switch to Program and choose a different AF option.
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In Syllabu and other exposure modes that support it, AF selection is included as an selection on the Q.Computer menu. As well as Facial expressio espial you also take the superior of 1-area (centre) AF, 23-area AF and Tracking AF. As on the PowerShot SX30 IS, the centre orbit can be resized and moved around the screen to sharpen on an off-centre subject. On the FZ100 this is activated using the sharpen button connected the lens barrel. You then use the rear dial to change the area size and the control pad to move over IT just about. It sounds more than involved than it is in practice and is to be sure reclaimable for tripod-affixed shots but, handheld, information technology's far quicker and simpler to concentrate so recompose while keeping incomplete-pressure on the shutter release.
In AF tracking modal value imperative the AF/AE lock on the rear control board locks and tracks the object within the central target. AF tracking holds onto subjects symptomless in good light, but in poor lighting conditions and when subjects move rapidly, it can slip off the mark.
Manual focus is selected exploitation the AF/AF Macro/MF switch on the lens cask and then using the rear dial to adjust the focus referencing a ordered series on the shield, remembering number one to press the dial in to switch from exposure accommodation. The scale uses the width of the screen door to represent distances from a few centimetres to infinity, so it's trying, if not impossible to focus precisely without invoking the MF assist function which magnifies a portion of the test. It takes several turns of the rear dial to move the focus point by a significant amount, but the left and right buttons on the mode dial provide a quicker alternative. The scale graphically represents the deepness of field of honor, which gives you an meter reading of how successful your manual focusing efforts are promising to be.
The pre AF mode, which is set from the main carte du jour, helps speed up the focusing process by pre-focusing before you press the shutter relinquish. There are two options Q-AF and C-AF for Quick and Continuous respectively. C-AF works the Saame way American Samoa continuous AF on most cameras, including the PowerShot SX30 IS, with all the implications for electric battery life that continual adjustment of the focusing centrifugal carries. Q-AF rather cleverly uses the image stabilisation system to discover when the arcdegree of jitter becomes minimal, interprets this as you frame up your shooter, and only and so activates AF.
Like the Lumix FZ45 / FZ40 the Lumix FZ100 supports face recognition. Prepared to half-dozen faces canful be stored along with name, D.O.B. and a custom AF icon. Focus and exposure are prioritised happening recognised faces which crapper be registered manually, operating theater you can set things up so that the television camera mechanically registers frequently injection faces. Information technology's a feature that's popular along Panasonic's compact range and undeniably peachy fun to discove the names of people appear below their faces when they'Re recognised. If you take a whole sle of portraits this might sway you in favor of of the FZ100 over the PowerShot SX30 IS. What would make it really useful, though, is to have the identify recorded as a keyword in the image's EXIF data.
One of the most obvious differences betwixt the FZ100 and FZ45 / FZ40 are their screens. Both measure 3in, but the FZ45 / FZ40's has 230k resolution and is fixed in situ, whereas the FZ100's boasts 460k pixels and is fully-articulated, allowing you to compose at unusual angles. This feature not only puts clear space between the FZ100 and its sibling, but it actually outdoes its primary rival the Canon PowerShot SX30 IS. The Canon ace-zooms have featured jointed screens for approximately time, but the modish SX30 IS has a 2.7in / 230k panel, compared to the 3in / 460k of the FZ100. While this makes no remainder to image tone, the FZ100's screen is perceptibly easier on the eye, particularly for shooting video and when using the MF wait on feature to magnify the median portion of the screen.
The wider 3:2 aspect ratio of the FZ100's screen go far a better primed for 16:9 video but, with vertical pitch blackness parallel bars on either side of a 4:3 image, it doesn't take in so much over the smaller 2.7 inch screen of the PowerShot SX30 IS. Because information technology isn't flush affixed and has small grip holds top and bottom though, it's more than easier to bow out from it's docked berth than the PowerShot SX30's sieve.
The Lumix FZ100's menu system is accessed away pressing the Card/Set button at the centre of the control pad and is arranged on leash tabs, Rec – for shot stills, Motion Picture and Frame-up. The Rec tab is beautiful extensive – in the PASM exposure modes it contains 23 options ranged over five pages including picture size and quality, sensitivity, AF and Pre AF mode, flash settings, stabiliser and a lot much besides.
Though it can deal a while to find things, many of these options can be accessed more easily by past routes – the control pad buttons or Q.Menu for example. And not each the menus are soh all-embracing, being tailored to display only those options in stock in the elect pic mode. In Intelligent Auto mode, for example, the Rec menu is replaced with an iA menu with scarcely five options.
Many of the card items aren't all that clearly labeled – it's not always easy to recall which of the Mode 1 and Mode 2 stabiliser options is the continuous united for example. Panasonic could hear something from Canyon Here which has addressed this issue happening the PowerShot SX30 IS and other models with its hints and tips feature.
The Apparatus menu has seven pages of options, though umteen of these, look-alike the clock time and date settings, top executive redemptive options, USB and HDMI interface modes and reveal options, are things you'll most likely set only rarely. The Film menu allows you to set movie recording options including transcription mode and quality, Pre AF mode and to activate the wind filter and zoom mic feature – realise bwlow for more details and samples.
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The Q.Computer menu button activates a shortcut menu sheathing with frequently used functions. As with the main menu these are contingent on the designated exposure mode. In Syllabu mode the full list is film mode, flash, metering mode, AF mode, white balance, aspect ratio, picture size, movie recording quality, and LCD musical mode. A with the PowerShot SX30 IS, in that respect's nary ISO setting here because that has it's own dedicated button on the control pad.
In Playback mode the Setup menu chit is connected by Mode and Playback tabs. The first of these is used to select between average playback, slideshow, mode playback, from which you can chose to play just movies or stills, and class-based filtered playback. The Playback fare provides some basic editing tools including a creature which splits movie clips and one that allows you to edit Facial recognition information. In playback mode the Q.Menu button doubles as a delete button.
Spell the FZ100 provides a full range of manual and semi-auto exposure modes it can hush up mesh as a amply automatic point-and-shoot up camera using the same Intelligent Machine mode with picture detection recovered on Panasonic's basic compacts.
Conniption sensing selects the Portrait, Scenery, Large, Night Portrait, Night Scene, Sundown or Baby scene modes where appropriate, otherwise, it uses the standard automobile exposure settings. Intelligent Car also employs Intelligent ISO which detects motion in the frame and selects an fittingly high sensitivity setting to enable a befittingly fast shutter speed. Lastly, Scintillating vulnerability sets different ISO levels for individual scene areas to green goods an exposure that captures a wider range of tonal detail than would otherwise be possible. Intelligent ISO and Intelligent Exposure are also available in other modes.
Panasonic's scene signal detection industrial plant bad flawlessly, identifying scene types swiftly and accurately. Though IT's a less sophisticated scheme than the PowerShot SX30 IS's, with less scene types, it was more often able to make an identification in situations where the SX30 IS defaulted to the 'general' auto exposure setting.
The Program, Aperture antecedence, Shutter priority and Manual, collectively referred to as PASM exposure modes, are helpfully ringed on the mode dial to help you promptly option them out from the 10 odd modes. Program auto mode sets some the shutter speed and aperture, though this superior can easily cost shifted using the rear dial either to maintain the selected exposure exploitation a different aperture/shutter speed combination Beaver State to transfer it using photograph compensation. The rear telephone dial is used in the same way in the semi automatic Aperture and Shutter priority modes. Shutter speeds range from 60 seconds to 1/2000, with a one second frown demarcation in Program mode.
In Manual Exposure mode the dial is once again used, this time to adjust both aperture and shutter focal ratio, a solitary press toggling between the two. A musical scale appears at the bottom of the screen to testify under or over-exposure aside + operating theatre – 2EV. In use it's precise straightforward with screen brightness changing to indicate subordinate- or over-exposure when you fractional-press the shutter exit.
Scene modes allocated plume of place on the mode dial are My colours, Portrait, Scene, Sports, Hand-to-hand-up and Night portrait. Selecting any of these provides further options on a screen overlay. For example, My colours provides a choice of people of color rendering options, Portrait offers normal, soft-spoken skin outdoor, indoor and constructive options and the Scene tantrum manner offers normal, nature, architecture and creative.
The mode telephone dial scene modes offer a level of creative control you don't get with the strange 'set and buck' scene modes. E.g. in portrait mode you can correct the aperture and therefore the depth of field, in Scenery mode you can adjust the shutter speed to produce more interesting water effects. A further 17 scene modes are available from a fare having first selected the SCN position happening the mode dial. These include Panorama Assist, two baby modes, Pet, Sunset, High Skunk, Flash Burst, Aerial Photo and Frame.
Panasonic Lumix FZ100 Movie Mode
The Lumix FZ100 builds upon the pic modes of its predecessor and the FZ45 / FZ40. Like those models it offers the choice of AVCHD and Motion JPEG encryption formats for 720p HD video, merely immediately in addition offers a 1080i AVCHD option. Like the FZ45 / FZ40, there's twin stereo mics mounted on upside of the tawdry housing, a dedicated video transcription button and you can use the 24x optical surg during recording. Unlike the FZ45 / FZ40, you lavatory deal a still pic (or even a burst) while motion-picture photography, and as mentioned earlier, in that location's the selection to connect an outer microphone for better sound timber via a 2.5mm old salt.
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When set to AVCHD (1080i) style, you bear the choice of FSH and FH which record at 17 and 13Mbit/s respectively. Switch to AVCHD (720p) mode and you have the choice of SH and H options, again at the same 17 and 13Mbit/s rates. Regardless of the mode, the sensor outputs 50fps for PAL regions and 60fps for NTSC regions, but it only remains progressive for the 720p way; put down the photographic camera to 1080i mode and the final file testament be encoded reticulate at 50i or 60i.
Switch to Motion JPEG and the 720p HD option is linked by WVGA (848 x 480), VGA (640 x 480), and QVGA (320 x 240) sized options, all recorded at a stationary quality setting and at a frame rate of 30fps regardless of geographic area. Note to support any of the AVCHD modes, you'll need to use up a memory circuit card rated as Class 4 OR faster, while to support Move JPEG, you'll need Class 6 or quicker.
Soh which mode should you manipulation? Question JPEG May be older, but has the vantage of easier editing and greater compatibility, but AVCHD enjoys longer transcription times. To put them in perspective, the FZ100's AVCHD mode (even in its best quality 1080i FSH setting) consumes almost half as much memory as Gesture JPEG in 720p, allowing you to bosom close to double the footage into the same quad, while delivering roughly the unvarying image quality. Given an 8GB tease, you're looking at more or less half an hour of footage in Motion JPEG as opposed to one hour with AVCHD, once more even when the latter is set to its unexceeded quality 1080i FSH mode.
On the far side Thomas More effectual compression though, the really important feature of AVCHD is potentially longer recording multiplication per file. Movement JPEG files happening the FZ100 are off-limits to 2GB in sized, which limits the HD mode to clips lasting about 8 minutes each. In contrast, switching to the AVCHD modality allows you to keep recording uninterrupted until you run out of memory or battery life-time. Conniption an 8GB card and you could record for an hour in the best quality setting.
In that location is however one important caveat for the European version of the Lumix FZ100, which has a level bes recording time of 29 minutes and 59 seconds per file in to comply with tax regulations. But that's still much longer than the 8 minute maximum of Apparent movement JPEG.
Another difference worth noting betwixt the 2 formats is their location happening the card itself. Motion JPEG 'MOV' files may personify ground alongside your still photos in the DCIM folder, but the AVCHD 'MTS' files are buried gone in various nested folders which start with one unhelpfully labelled PRIVATE happening your bill of fare. This is to ensure compatibility with Panasonic's TVs, and to play them connected your computer, merely point your software at this brochure and it'll reckon the rest; we had zero issues playing back in Cyberlink's PowerDVD which 'byword' them A a Blu-Beam of light disc, or opening them directly into VLC Player (although the latter suffered from whatsoever artefacts when playing indorse the FZ100's files). Either way, just remember to copy the MTS files out of this folder before reformatting your plug-in.
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Movie recording can Be started regardless of the mode dial position by pressing the devoted record button immediately behind the shutter release.
Switch the mode dial to the Creative picture mode put up, though, an you have the option to blue-ribbon one of the PASM exposure modes for manual control over the aperture and shutter speed – a welcome facility for video-philes.
Sensible before showing you our normal HD telecasting samples, there's one additional magic which the FZ100 can perform finished its cheaper sibling: a Inebriated Speed mode which shoots at 220fps in QVGA resolution, but plays back at 30fps, over seven times slower than normal. The files are encoded using Motion JPEG and stored in a QuickTime MOV wrapper without audio.
While the low resoluteness limits the modal value, it's beyond any doubt great fun to unbend hot action for a closer look. Ideal for analysing a golf game swing, watching a bird's wings in fledge, or – ahem – checking your table tennis technique. See the clip happening the left for an example.
Immediately along with our HD movie samples.
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This hand held shot shows the full extent of the Lumix FZ100 zoom. The AF holds the focus reasonably well, though it does wander a little near the goal of the range.
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In this tripod-mounted panning shot, the Lumix FZ100 does a better job of belongings the focus. It loses it momentarily a couple of times, simply regains information technology very quickly. Note the better treatment of bright sunshine and reflective highlights on the water by the MOS sensor compared to the CCD of the FZ45 / FZ40.
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And in this interior low fat-free example, the Lumix FZ100 does a good job of coping with changes in the light level.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 Continuous shot and sensing element
The major internal difference between the FZ100 and FZ45 / FZ40 is the sensor technology: MOS and CCD respectively. The use of a MOS sensor connected the FZ100 gives it a total of advantages including 1080i Full HD video, avoidance of soppy spotlight streaking, and fast continuous shooting speeds.
The FZ100 sports a number of ruptured shooting options that are accessed from a dedicated button on the top instrument panel. The burst shooting settings are specified in frames per second, with speeds ranging from 2fps, through 5, 11, 40 and finally an incredible 60fps. You'd expect in that respect to equal a drop in maximum simulacrum size somewhere on the range and there is, at 40fps it drops to 5 Megapixels and at 60fps there's a further drop to 2.5 Megapixels, only at prepared to 11fps, you're impressively shooting at the full resolution, while at the 2 and 5fps settings, there's a continuous AF option that refocuses 'tween shots as opposed to locking focus from the first frame.
11fps shooting at full resolution is pretty signal and exceeds the performance of many DSLRs. It's not called 'burst' for nothing though, as these aren't unlimited round-the-clock shot speeds. At 2 and 5fps the limit is a generous 100 shots, falling to 15 shots at 11fps. It goes up at the lower closure burst options with 50 and 60 shots at 40 and 60fps respectively. Another thing worth noting is that, with the exception of the 40 and 60fps modes you'rhenium not limited to JPEG recording, but tin can shoot high rush bursts in Naked as a jaybird shooting modes.
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To test the FZ100 we fitted a Grade 4 SanDisk Ultra 2GB SD card and set the 5fps burst mode without enabling AF. The FZ100 fired off the first off 18 frames in 4 seconds, a rate of 4.5fps, but then the charge per unit fell dramatically to around 2fps. The 100 stroke limit was reached at 55 seconds, giving an overall value 1.8fps. Switched to the 11fps musical mode, we fired-off the 15-barb burst in 1.6 seconds, corresponding to a value of retributive o'er 9fps. This was with the camera set off to 100 ISO though, and crescendo the sensitivity to 200 ISO saw the rate devolve to just under 5fps.
While disappointing to find the range descending at 200 ISO, it remained sufficiently quick to capture the natural action sequence pictured above. These shots were taken with the FZ100 fully zoomed-into its level bes 600mm equivalent focal distance and congeal to 200 ISO. Autofocus was locked from the primary frame in, but fifty-fifty at 600mm, there was sufficient depth-of-subject field for well-nig of the shots here to comprise sanely sharp – so even though the FZ100 may not deliver quite the speeds you hoped for, it really can capture distant action pretty well, which is all many masses will be after.
The FZ100's 1 / 2.3 inch MOS detector has 14 Megapixels producing images with a maximum size of 4320 x 3240 pixels. Still image files can be saved in JPEG format at one of two concretion settings, Fine and Standard. In a continuing advantage over Canon's super-zoom, the FZ100 can record Unfair files, and now you can accompany them with JPEGs at either of the quality settings. Maximum resolution images blastoff using the Fine quality setting are around 5MB in size and RAW files 16MB
To see how the quality of the FZ100 measures-up in practice, get a load at our real-life resolution and high ISO disturbance results pages, browse the sample images gallery, or skip to the chase and head straight for our verdict.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100
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