30X zoom. How would you rate this?
Jun 19, 2017 06:28:25 #
I'm not saying which camera was used but how would you rate this? The first shot is just to give an idea of how far away I was from the subject; the tower in the centre right of the photo. The camera was hand held so at least the stabilisation seems to work OK.
Jun 19, 2017 06:46:40 #
GARGLEBLASTER wrote:
I'm not saying which camera was used but how would you rate this? The first shot is just to give an idea of how far away I was from the subject; the tower in the centre right of the photo. The camera was hand held so at least the stabilisation seems to work OK.
I'm impressed, the download zoomed in still shows great detail.
Jun 19, 2017 07:02:20 #
It is a great shot. My guess is that you use a SX30 from Canon. I have an SX20.
Jun 19, 2017 07:05:27 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
GARGLEBLASTER wrote:
I'm not saying which camera was used but how would you rate this? The first shot is just to give an idea of how far away I was from the subject; the tower in the centre right of the photo. The camera was hand held so at least the stabilisation seems to work OK.
It's impressive, but the sharpness is not ideal. Since I don't use one lens point and shoots/bridge cameras, I have no idea which camera did this.
Jun 19, 2017 07:25:23 #
Linary
Loc: UK
GARGLEBLASTER wrote:
I'm not saying which camera was used but how would you rate this? The first shot is just to give an idea of how far away I was from the subject; the tower in the centre right of the photo. The camera was hand held so at least the stabilisation seems to work OK.
I would rate it as quite acceptable for a small sensor superzoom. The image is noisy and soft, but it is a 30x zoom and compares well with my bridge camera which has a lesser zoom.
Jun 19, 2017 07:25:39 #
Jun 19, 2017 07:51:50 #
Even the Chromatic aberration is only barely detectable, which for this magnification is amazing!
Jun 19, 2017 08:26:40 #
GARGLEBLASTER wrote:
I'm not saying which camera was used but how would you rate this? The first shot is just to give an idea of how far away I was from the subject; the tower in the centre right of the photo. The camera was hand held so at least the stabilisation seems to work OK.
I would rate it as outstanding.
Jun 20, 2017 01:43:27 #
Apologies for not having replied sooner but I was very busy with other things yesterday.
First of all thank you all for your interesting replies. As you can see there is a slight diversity of opinion but most of you seem to think it's OK.
OK, the camera I used was a Panasonic TZ80, a camera that has some rather mixed reviews but I purchased if for the zoom more than anything else. I don't think that the result was all that bad and in spite of the fact that I shot the tower quite early in the day, it was very hot and some account should be taken in that there was a heat haze. I agree that the definition could be better but one would be able to make quite a detailed architectural drawing from the result. It's not perfect but for such a small camera I think that it is more than satisfactory.
What is not satisfactory is that this is described as a P&S and I wonder when a P&S no longer fits the description. I say this because the full instruction manual runs to more than 400 pages! I could go on but this is a digression.
First of all thank you all for your interesting replies. As you can see there is a slight diversity of opinion but most of you seem to think it's OK.
OK, the camera I used was a Panasonic TZ80, a camera that has some rather mixed reviews but I purchased if for the zoom more than anything else. I don't think that the result was all that bad and in spite of the fact that I shot the tower quite early in the day, it was very hot and some account should be taken in that there was a heat haze. I agree that the definition could be better but one would be able to make quite a detailed architectural drawing from the result. It's not perfect but for such a small camera I think that it is more than satisfactory.
What is not satisfactory is that this is described as a P&S and I wonder when a P&S no longer fits the description. I say this because the full instruction manual runs to more than 400 pages! I could go on but this is a digression.
Jun 20, 2017 05:53:23 #
Very impressive even when downloaded, but when zoomed in its rather fuzzy, still very good though.
I use the previous TZ70 and am very pleased with the zoom even at the maximum.
I use the previous TZ70 and am very pleased with the zoom even at the maximum.
Jun 20, 2017 07:19:25 #
GARGLEBLASTER wrote:
I'm not saying which camera was used but how would you rate this? The first shot is just to give an idea of how far away I was from the subject; the tower in the centre right of the photo. The camera was hand held so at least the stabilisation seems to work OK.
Looking at the W/A and the tele, that's amazing. Totally acceptable.
Jun 20, 2017 07:32:41 #
[quote=GARGLEBLASTER]Apologies for not having replied sooner but I was very busy with other things yesterday.
First of all thank you all for your interesting replies. As you can see there is a slight diversity of opinion but most of you seem to think it's OK.
OK, the camera I used was a Panasonic TZ80, a camera that has some rather mixed reviews but I purchased if for the zoom more than anything else. I don't think that the result was all that bad and in spite of the fact that I shot the tower quite early in the day, it was very hot and some account should be taken in that there was a heat haze. I agree that the definition could be better but one would be able to make quite a detailed architectural drawing from the result. It's not perfect but for such a small camera I think that it is more than satisfactory.
What is not satisfactory is that this is described as a P&S and I wonder when a P&S no longer fits the description. I say this because the full instruction manual runs to more than 400 pages! I could go on but this is a digression.[/quote
Like you I bought my TZ70 mainly for the zoom, I played around with the zoom and was very pleased with the image quality at all lengths.
I use it alongside my Olympus EM10 but that has a prime lens so the TZ70 comes in when I need some zoom.
First of all thank you all for your interesting replies. As you can see there is a slight diversity of opinion but most of you seem to think it's OK.
OK, the camera I used was a Panasonic TZ80, a camera that has some rather mixed reviews but I purchased if for the zoom more than anything else. I don't think that the result was all that bad and in spite of the fact that I shot the tower quite early in the day, it was very hot and some account should be taken in that there was a heat haze. I agree that the definition could be better but one would be able to make quite a detailed architectural drawing from the result. It's not perfect but for such a small camera I think that it is more than satisfactory.
What is not satisfactory is that this is described as a P&S and I wonder when a P&S no longer fits the description. I say this because the full instruction manual runs to more than 400 pages! I could go on but this is a digression.[/quote
Like you I bought my TZ70 mainly for the zoom, I played around with the zoom and was very pleased with the image quality at all lengths.
I use it alongside my Olympus EM10 but that has a prime lens so the TZ70 comes in when I need some zoom.
Jun 20, 2017 10:27:46 #
Linary
Loc: UK
GARGLEBLASTER wrote:
What is not satisfactory is that this is described as a P&S and I wonder when a P&S no longer fits the description. I say this because the full instruction manual runs to more than 400 pages! I could go on but this is a digression.
What is not satisfactory is that this is described as a P&S and I wonder when a P&S no longer fits the description. I say this because the full instruction manual runs to more than 400 pages! I could go on but this is a digression.
A P&S is descriptive of my phone camera, Aim, Fire. That's it, nothing more to do, I don't even have to compose, the act of tapping the screen to shoot knocks any composing I have tried way out of line.
The labels Compact, P&S, Bridge even mirrorless, are just confusing things. Ignore them.
Jun 20, 2017 10:57:24 #
ejrmaine wrote:
I'm impressed, the download zoomed in still shows great detail.
I'm impressed as well! Cheers.
Jun 20, 2017 15:39:46 #
RobertW
Loc: Breezy Point, New York
From someone who has a P900 just for such situations and birds, I'm impressed
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