My Second Digital Camera

Bought a Panasonic Lumix FZ20 in Nov 2004. I bought it because I found my Fujifilm 4900Z was not up to my usage and kind of limited capability for my photography skill advancements such as focusing speed, shutter lag, megapixels, zoom, short battery life and storage type. I chose Panasonic Lumix FZ20 because it had superb Leica 12X optical zoom with f/2.8 constant, optical image stabilisation, 5 megapixels, minimal shutter lag and fast focusing speed. What's more important?! It cost only half of my Fujifilm 4900Z, lol.


I have been talking about the superb optical zoom of the cam. Let's see how good it is...


No zoom here. (1st image)


12x optical zoom. (2nd image)

Yes! That's the 12x full optical zoom spotted the ferry on the left of the first image. Kind of cool eh! By the way, it had 4x digital zoom on top of the 12x optical zoom. So if you use full optical zoom and full digital zoom together, you get 48x zoom in total. That's sound fantastic right. Anyway, I do not believe in digital zoom as it deteriorates the image quality by interpolating the image taken with optical zoom. If possible, please try to avoid it.

Here's an example of digital zoom effect taken at 48x:

You don't want to see this. Am I right?