Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX3 Digital Camera
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- Digital Zoom: 4x
- Camera Type: Compact
- Weight: 0.28 lb.
- LCD Screen Size: 2.5 in.
- Resolution: 6.4 Megapixel
- Optical Zoom: 3x
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Lumix DMC-FX3
Pros
Good speed, low light, and image stabilization, sharp images, great lens, ease of use
Cons
No standard USB transfer cable, no charging cable, no case.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
In spite of the non-standard connectibility, I am very satisfied with this camera
Great camera for the money. It has a lot of features that help anyone take great pictures. I paid about $188 w/tax and have taken about 500 pics so far. Mostly for use on the web.
I used the 3 Megapixel setting and a 1 GB SD RAM.
Here's what I like:
-Image stabilization: great for low light, closeups without a tripod. Really works well.
-Burst mode: one setting takes 3 photos rapidly making sure that at least one is good. Useful in normal light.
-Large LCD. Easy to review existing pics.
-Optical zoom: Easily fulfilled my needs.
-Easily learned Menu system.
-Adequate flash and settings.
-High speed shutter and capture.
-Good battery life.
-Auto focus. Very accurate auto focus system gave extremely sharp pictures. I take most of my pictures at the 3 Megapixel setting, since the quality is very good and the resulting size is about 2MB each.
-Great Leica lenses.
-Movies are very good. Stored in MOV format. (I prefer AVI)
What I don't like:
-No case. This type of camera should come with a case to protect the LCD.
-Special cables required. Transfer to PC requires a special cable (supplied) to connect via USB. These days, standard mini USB connectors should be the norm with these cameras. A workaround is to remove the SD card (not supplied) and connect through an adapter to the USB port. A software disk is also supplied, but the programs were really no help.
-Special cable required to charge the battery. (not supplied). Instead the battery must be removed and placed in a special charger (supplied) to recharge the battery. Typical charge time is about 1.5 hrs.
-Could not figure out how to time stamp my photos. The camera supports DPOF - a printing feature that prints the time of the photo on the print but not on the image.
-USB connect runs down the battery. High battery usage is experienced when connected by USB.
I used the 3 Megapixel setting and a 1 GB SD RAM.
Here's what I like:
-Image stabilization: great for low light, closeups without a tripod. Really works well.
-Burst mode: one setting takes 3 photos rapidly making sure that at least one is good. Useful in normal light.
-Large LCD. Easy to review existing pics.
-Optical zoom: Easily fulfilled my needs.
-Easily learned Menu system.
-Adequate flash and settings.
-High speed shutter and capture.
-Good battery life.
-Auto focus. Very accurate auto focus system gave extremely sharp pictures. I take most of my pictures at the 3 Megapixel setting, since the quality is very good and the resulting size is about 2MB each.
-Great Leica lenses.
-Movies are very good. Stored in MOV format. (I prefer AVI)
What I don't like:
-No case. This type of camera should come with a case to protect the LCD.
-Special cables required. Transfer to PC requires a special cable (supplied) to connect via USB. These days, standard mini USB connectors should be the norm with these cameras. A workaround is to remove the SD card (not supplied) and connect through an adapter to the USB port. A software disk is also supplied, but the programs were really no help.
-Special cable required to charge the battery. (not supplied). Instead the battery must be removed and placed in a special charger (supplied) to recharge the battery. Typical charge time is about 1.5 hrs.
-Could not figure out how to time stamp my photos. The camera supports DPOF - a printing feature that prints the time of the photo on the print but not on the image.
-USB connect runs down the battery. High battery usage is experienced when connected by USB.
