scodgerott
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I got my FZ200 yesterday. I trailed it against my FZ150 at the zoo, where I was able to compare similar images. The FZ200 certainly handled the light better, shooting at 1/1000 sec, where the FZ150 was struggling at 1/400, however at F2.8 the image quality was not anywhere near as good as the FZ150. I will try some more today and tomorrow at different F settings, however it seems to me that if you have to go to a higher F number to get a better image, then that seems to negate the advantage of the F2.8 lens. The autofocus also played up. At one stage it locked on and then drifted in and out of focus. On another occasion it simply focused on nothing, I was getting the green square, but the subject was way out of focus and nothing I could do made it change. When I say nothing, nothing in the frame was in focus, it was all blurry. I had to switch to manual. I'm attaching a side by side comparison for you to have a look at. The FZ150 is on the right, or the darker image. I also got a number of grossly overexposed shots when using burst mode, but that does happen sometimes with my FZ150.