Product Description

The fantastic Lumix FZ28 Digital Camera features a 27mm wide angle Leica lens, 18x optical zoom and High Speed Burst shooting for ultimate action photography.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24503 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Panasonic
• Model: DMC-FZ28EB-K
• Released on: 2008-08-01
• Dimensions: 2.60 pounds
• Display size: 2.7

Features

• The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 packs so much more into awell-made compact body, including a powerful Leica lens for wide-angle rangesequivalent to the traditional 27 mm and a telephoto focal length of 486 mm. You?llbe able to capture spectacular photos really easily the Lumix DMC-FZ28, which isthe fruit of a partnership between the biggest name in consumer electronicsand a leading reference in the world of photography, has everything you?dexpect to find in a top-class camera. Every last detail is
• recorded, thanks toits automatic intelligent and manual modes and if you fancy taking yourpassion for images further, you can ? because the Lumix DMC FZ28 comes complete with a high-definition camcorder mode!
• PANASONIC Lumix DMC-FZ28 - black Including batteries, Charger Bridge camera Digital camera
• Bridge camera

Customer Reviews

Excellent Camera
I bought this camera 2 weeks ago and am very pleased with it's performance up to 400 ISO. Above this, pictures are somewhat blurry and unless you really need to shoot at 800 or 1600 ISO don't.

As with a previous reviewer I too went for the lowepro Apex 100 and it's ideal if you are carrying the camera, spare battery and SD card. There's no space for anything else though. It's a good quality bag and I highly recommend it. Don't buy a cheap bag without padding as the camera will break if dropped!

I've bought a Sandisk Extreme III 4GB card and this too is excellent. Beware of slow cards as thy will take for ever to save your images and you can't do anything until the images are saved on the card. Note that not all SD cards are equal. I've tried a few a although not the cheapest do recommend the Sandisk.

Optical Zoom is 18x if you're shooting with 10MP. This increases to 32x as you lower the resolution to 3MP. No optical zoom increase below 3MP.

I've found the battery to be good for 500 shots which is certainly above average for this type of camera.

All in all an excellent camera and highly recommended.

Incredible zoom

Having been thinking about buying a new camera to replace my ageing 5mp point-and-shoot for a few months, I was tied between the Lumix TZ5 and this camera. Having played with them on the high street there was absolutely no competition.

I took this camera away with me to Turkey a couple of weeks ago. Knowing very little about photography I kept the camera on automatic most of the time, though the sunset and sports modes are very good, the sunset scene mode really brings out the reds and oranges in sunsets. Using a tripod you can get some really amazing night shots. In the right hands you could get some brilliant shots with this toy, that's not to say that an amateur can't achieve similar results.

I'm very pleased that I invested in a 2gb Sandisk extreme card before leaving. There is a noticeable difference between saving pictures to this card and saving to a standard Sandisk card - sometimes of a few seconds. My 2gb SD card will store just over 400 photos at full resolution, I really should get another.

What really sets this camera apart is the zoom function. 18x optical zoom means that you can happily play paparazzi, getting some brilliant shots from far away with no degredation in quality. The camera allows you to disable the digital zoom completely - meaning that you don't accidentally start taking degraded photos.

The best example of the zoom is some of the photos I took whilst away. Taking a photo from the top of a hill of the view down over the harbour you can see a small black object in the sea. Zooming in on this you can clearly see two people sat in an inflatable boat eating sandwiches! Rest assured that you will really be amazed.

The colours of the pictures are incredible, on a recent trip to Scotland I took numerous photos of landscapes and sunsets, all of which have come out clear and crisp with extremely vibrant colours.

Having looked into the lowepro cases I couldn't find a case that could happily hold the camera without being absolutely massive. Popping into Jessops I found one of their own brand cases that fits the camera snugly, without being a really tight fit. Best of all it only cost me £6.00

All in all I am thrilled with this camera. Having played with numerous cameras over the past few weeks, this fills a niche between simple point-and-shoot cameras and full blown DSLR cameras. Whilst incredibly simple for an amateur to use, I'm sure any professional will be more than at home with some of the more complicated functionality.

Wow, what a camera
I'm loving this new camera. It's still early doors yet but already the camera is so much better than my Fujifilm finepix F50.

I love all the options this camera has. The extensive instructions. The excellent flash, the massive zoom.

As per previous reviews this camera seems to be getting a lot of excellent reviews from the pro's, so I'm happy to add my own voice to the massive chorus of praise.

If only a camera this good was small enough to fit in my pocket.