Monday, March 28, 2011

Review Panasonic FZ40 Digital Camera

Are you in the market trying to find a travel digital camera? Why do not you bear in mind the super zoom compact camera like the Panasonic Lumix DMC-Fz40? Now, many people love this model, then in this article you can find various reasons why.

24x Zoom (35mm camera equivalent: 25-600mm)
Lumix DMC-FZ40 is budget super zoom digital camera since it brings a number of features like a LEICA DC VARIO_ELMARIT 24x optical zoom lens that offers a 25mm wide minimum focal length.

Lumix DMC-FZ40 is formed based on versatility and depth of the FZ-Series, therefore the camera presents stunning and improved innovative hybrid camera capabilities and features to photographers, this functions will give them enlarged versatility and a huge number of features.

Panasonic's customers will get many user-friendly features in super-compact point-and-shoots digital camera which certainly with additional 24x optical zoom and enhanced manual controls

Tele Conversion Lens
The major reasons why I love the Panazonic FZ series of cameras is that I could catch much closer to the action using a tele converter lens. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ40 digital camera is compatible with their DMW-LT55 1.7x teleconverter lens that will offer you zooming ability equal to an epic 1020mm (35mm camera equivalent). You should need a Lens Adaptor (DMW-LA5) to add the telephoto conversion lens to the camera.

32x Intelligent Zoom
Another attractive feature is that thanks to the new Intelligent Resolution technology on the Panasonic DMC-FZ40 which extends the zoom ratio by approximately 1.3x but maintains the image quality although it is using the digital zoom. This means the 24x optical can now virtually and realistically extend to 32x!
Additionaly, the "Extra Optical Zoom" function further extends the camera's zoom power to a massive 50.6x by using the center part of the large MOS sensor to get subjects even closer. This setting unfortunately reduces the resolution to 3 megapixels, which could be useful for identification purposes.

25mm Ultra Wide-Angle
The 14.1-megapixel Lumix DMC-FZ40 has a 25mm wide-angle 24x optical zoom f/2.8-5.2 lens with about twice the capturing area of a conventional 35mm lens. This provides you brilliant scope and scale for creative composition. You could engage the powerful 24x optical zoom to tremendous effect in both stills and movies. The extra optical zoom uses the centre part of the CCD to extend this 24x zoom ratio to an excellent 50.6x zoom at a resolution of 3-MP or less in stills.

Sonic Speed Auto Focus
An important feature in any digital camera, but particularly one where your subjects don't always stay still, like birds and other animals is just how quickly it could focus. The Sonic Speed AF system in the DMC-FZ40 has a lot of enhancements, also a higher-speed actuator, optimized algorithms and parallel software processing. The end of result is a faster and more precise Auto Focusing performance.

Spectacular HD movies on the big screen
The Lumix DMC-FZ40 records high-definition movies in AVCHD Lite with the fantastic quality of Dolby Digital Stereo Creator. It also has motion JPEG (1,280 x 720 pixels). Just press the Movie recording key to begin shooting. Switch to Creative Movie mode and you can manually alter the shutter speed and aperture. Or you could use Intelligent Auto to make the camera do the thinking for you, while you concentrate on composition and following the action. When you have finished shooting, simply put in the SD card into the VIERA Image Viewer (SD/SDHC/SDXC card slot) on a VIERA TV or Panasonic Blu Ray recorder / player to see and share your footage or connect your Lumix DMC-FZ40 to your VIErA TV and use the remote to see and share your footage.


Panasonic FZ40 vs FZ35
At first glance the Panasonic FZ40 camera seems very similar to the older FZ35 . But the main discrepancies are important ones: more powerful optical zoom, much higher resolution image capture, faster auto focus, movie recording in full HD, wider aperture range and a 25mm ultra wide angle lens.


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