Lumix - Panasonic (1 Viewer)

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Lawts

Supa Silly Un

• Jul 10, 2008

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Anyone had a go at digiscoping with this camera? I think it's a Panasonic. I just caught the end of an advert the other night which said it has a 10X optical zoom.

 

Derry

Well-known member

• Jul 11, 2008

• #2

check the below site out for info on most any Panny,,

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/

think the 10x has been replaced with an 18x now,,

Derry

 

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Perry Grin

Well-known member

• Jul 11, 2008

• #3

Lawts said:

Anyone had a go at digiscoping with this camera? I think it's a Panasonic. I just caught the end of an advert the other night which said it has a 10X optical zoom.

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I've used the TZ3 (10x) with my opticron ES80 and HDF zoom (the camera lens fits perfectly into the eye cup!). Nothing fancy, just hand held for record shots and it works fine for that. I probably could improve the piccies it if I really tried. However, there is no manual setting which makes it less versatile than others.

Perry

 

Bob Philpott

Well-known member

• Aug 11, 2008

• #4

Perry Grin said:

I've used the TZ3 (10x) with my opticron ES80 and HDF zoom (the camera lens fits perfectly into the eye cup!). Nothing fancy, just hand held for record shots and it works fine for that. I probably could improve the piccies it if I really tried. However, there is no manual setting which makes it less versatile than others.

Perry

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Perry

Interested that the TZ3 fits into the eye piece. There is now the TZ5 or the one I am looking at at present is the FX500 which can go into manual mode. Anyone out there who is using the smaller Lumix cameras for digiscoping, do they work.

Bob

 

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Tich007mt

New member

• Aug 11, 2008

• #5

Lumix DMC-FS3

I am fairly new to bird photography (about 8 months) and only very recently purchased an inexpensive spotting scope and a Lumix DMC-FS3 - also low end with 8 megapixels and 3X optical zoom - Leica lens and image stabilisation however which is what attracted me. After a couple of sessions and experimenting with settings I managed to get the camera to auto-focus quite well to get reasonable pics|=)||=)|. Need to keep trying and experimenting however to improve quality still further.

Cheers

Tich

 

erniehatt

Well-known member

• Aug 12, 2008

• #6

Not a small camera, But I use the FZ50 with good success. No connection problems, just an adapter ring to suit the Williams Optics DCL-52 eyepiece. Ernie