Has anyone bought this recently and been impressed by its bird image abilities ?
I have an FZ-38, have read both negative and positive posts and do not wish to change, if it's 'worse'.
I took delivery of an FZ100 a little over a week ago. I haven't been able to give it much of a work out, yet. Did manage to catch a small bird hunkered up in the grass under the feeder though. Not sure of ID.
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Just an example. Slightly cropped, a little bit of curves and high pass sharpening in Photoshop.
I have not used the FZ38, but did have the FZ20 in the past. I like the FZ100 quite a bit better. I have a couple of teleconverters that can be used on it also. Also a red dot sight on an "extend-a-sight" from Photosolve that I can use on it. I usually have the camera on a tripod aimed out the dining room window at either the bird bath or the feeder. I have the AC adapter and the DC coupler gadget on order. Hope they come in soon. I like to keep the camera on the AC adapter so that I can keep it on all the time and most of the time I use Manual focus with the One Time Auto Focus to set the focus and lock it. Also use a portable DVD player for a remote viewer and a remote shutter release. This keeps me from spooking the birds away. I will say that this camera is a major improvement over the Fuji S200 EXR that it is replacing.
Paul
