Melproudfoot
Active member
Dear All,
See the review of the DMC-FZ30, Review
While not a obvious choice, given all the negative experience with long zoom ranges. This camera does seem to have some other interesting attributes.
1. Both the focus and zoom is internal - the lens does not move
2. The lens is threaded, 55mm
3. The screen can be moved to different angles
4. Both focus and zoom are manual controls
5. It has a remote release
6. Quite fast lens (f2.8-3.7)
I understand, from these pages, that one of the good points of the Nikon 4500 was the internal focusing and zoom.
The only, potential, downsides is that its physically big and the 12x zoom is way over the 3x that most successful cameras seem to have.
Anybody know why a large zoom range is, in itself, a problem? I would have thought that having a longer range would give more possible positions to get a good image, as long as the lens does not physically move.
If this would work through a scope, the other benefit is that one would have a image stabalised 668mm lens - using extended optical zoom (where it uses part of the CCD to extend the zoom range) for none scope pictures.
regards
Mel
See the review of the DMC-FZ30, Review
While not a obvious choice, given all the negative experience with long zoom ranges. This camera does seem to have some other interesting attributes.
1. Both the focus and zoom is internal - the lens does not move
2. The lens is threaded, 55mm
3. The screen can be moved to different angles
4. Both focus and zoom are manual controls
5. It has a remote release
6. Quite fast lens (f2.8-3.7)
I understand, from these pages, that one of the good points of the Nikon 4500 was the internal focusing and zoom.
The only, potential, downsides is that its physically big and the 12x zoom is way over the 3x that most successful cameras seem to have.
Anybody know why a large zoom range is, in itself, a problem? I would have thought that having a longer range would give more possible positions to get a good image, as long as the lens does not physically move.
If this would work through a scope, the other benefit is that one would have a image stabalised 668mm lens - using extended optical zoom (where it uses part of the CCD to extend the zoom range) for none scope pictures.
regards
Mel