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| Brand: Panasonic
Category: Photography
Buy New: $356.01
New (5) Used (2) from $300.00
Rating:  154 reviews
Sales Rank: 720
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
System Memory: 27
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Monitor Size: 250
Optical Zoom: 18
Digital Zoom: 4
Display Size: 2.5
Maximum Focal Length: 82.8
Minimum Focal Length: 6
Maximum Resolution: 8.1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 3 x 4.6 x 3.5
MPN: DMC-FZ18K
Model: DMC-FZ18K
UPC: 037988986941
EAN: 0037988986941
ASIN: B000TM7GD8
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 great camera August 18, 2008
jno
I used it during my holidays in Turkey. Very lightweight for hiking. Also I can used it inside museum as Santa Sophia basilic where flash is forbidden to take details of mosaic.
 Battery LIfe August 18, 2008
Tommy M. Earley (tampa, florida United States)
The camera is all they say it is for the most part. The zoom is great, and the picture quality is very good. The display is intuitive, but the LCD is hard to see if you try to elevate the camera to take a shot over the crowd. I would buy this camera again. I found one major draw back and that was the claim, that the supplied battery gets 400 pictures. I took 200 pictures on a full change and the battery was about to give out on me after only 200 shots with maybe 30 using a flash. You will want a back up battery if you take a lot of shots with this camera.
Very Nice Camera August 17, 2008
OldTooly (USA)
First let me say I bought this camera for my wife, not myself so I have not spent much time with it. But the quality of photos taken by her has markedly improved with this Lumix. The zoom is easy to use, the low light capability is also very good for indoor shots without the flash, giving a very natural color. The battery life is also very good. For around $300.00 USD it's a good value and should it last many years, it will be an excellent purchase. It is so much nicer than my Samsung 8.1MPixel I am considering buying one for myself.
Panasonic FZ-18 August 17, 2008
K. Ponnan
This camera is well worth the price and is super versatile. The fact that it allows manual control and shoots RAW images is a big plus. Its also fairly lightweight and not too big in size. The hood accessory included in the box is a nice addition.
It would have been nice to be able to zoom in and out when using the video. But one just has to predetermine the best focal length before pressing record. It would also be nice to have some indicator of focal length in mm when using the zoom. It gives an indication in 2X or 10X and so on. That means you just have to do a quick mental calculation to get an equivalent 35mm focal length. I noticed it has no macro mode on the dial. Most cameras do so I would say its not a good thing.
The toggle or joystick can be very useful once you get used to it. The shutter lag time is almost unnoticable. The 8.1 MP is for the 4:3 ratio mode. When you shoot at 16:9 ratio or the 3:2 (SLR) ration, the MP count drops to 6 and 7 MP. Not really a big deal but something you should note.
The best thing is that this camera does so many things well and will make a great travel camera.
a great choice August 17, 2008
alsey
I've had this camera now for 1 wk and taken close to 1000 shots and very pleased with the results. Depending on the user you can let it fully take charge and do all the work, you can get partially or fully involved too. Either way the buttons/knobs are placed just right so you can tweak settings easily and quickly with your eye still on the subject. So why did I chose the Lumix?...well initially I thought about the Sony H50, it had a few nice gimmicks like Nightshot and flip out screen but frankly I couldn't see much practical use of those. The zoom of 15x put it in a league below(afterall that's what we want a big zoom for), though in precision mode you can increase zoom to 30x...thats 15x optical and 2x digital also in smart mode you could go up 81x but only in vga. My girlfriend has a W120 with 4x zoom, in smart mode it can go up to 19x in vga, just a look at that quality tells me 81x vga pix will be totally unusable. Compared to the Lumix's 72x at 8mp, 92x at 5mp and 115x at 3mp and the Sony was eliminated...FYI I've taken hundreds of shots now with full optical and digital zoom at all resolutions, they are very good, sure at the limits they aren't razor sharp but that's to be expected.
Nikon's P80 was also in the running, but I heard that the threads on it's lens were just cosmetic, also that there were no filters available or intended. This for me put the P80 behind the Lumix.
My other choices were the Olympus SP570 and SP560, both felt very good ergonomically in my hand, and quality grip too. They did feel more chunky in the hand then the lumix(note: the lumix feels light too).
I wasn't keen on the zoom ring around lens barrel and it felt un-responsive when I tried it, so SP560 was bettered placed because it's zoom ring was like the Lumix. However both olympus models don't have threads on the len barrel so like the p80 can't use filters to even protect then lens. I'd seen a few custom adapters on the net and unfortunately they appear like a hat rim sitting on the end of the extended lens barrel, not a pretty sight.
Ok so I could live with no lens protection if the reviews gave it higher marks in picture,noise quality than the Lumix. Well after reading scores of reviews, the Lumix was superior across the whole focal range and ISO range. Sure ther's noise at high end ISO and low light but it's not as bad as the competion.
The reviews along with my earlier observations made the Lumix an easy choice. The fact that the manufacturers didn't even consider threads on the lens barrels tells me that their models are really just fancy advance point and shoots and not bridge cameras like the Lumix...but that's just me.....enjoy!!!!
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