Saturday, September 18, 2010

Panasonic Lumix DMC-F3

I just bought a new digicam, Lumix DMC-F3. It is my first ever digicam (neglecting handphone camera). Haha! XD

I bought it with RM400. Since I am a beginner user and considering its price, F3 functions very very well already for me. Rating from 0 - 10 marks, I would give it 8 marks. It is black in colour.

Lumix DMC-F3 (Front View)

Lumix DMC-F3 (Back View)

Its general specification:
  ● 12.1 Megapixels
  ● 4x Optical Zoom
  ● 28mm Wide Angle
  ● 2.7" LCD
  ● HD Movie Recording

Well it has plenty scene modes which is quite useful. Anyway, I love its auto-scene-mode. It's really intelligent enough. It'll auto adjust almost everything for you: ISO, shutter speed, flash and many. What you have to do is just point and shoot. Very convenient. But, you can opt to force the flash off even in low light condition. Personally, I dislike images being flashed. It doesn't look nice. This is an added advantage of F3!

But, it has disadvantages too. It has only digital image stabilizer but not optical image stabilizer. It does not help much if my hand is shaking. Photo-saving takes longer time too if digital image stabilizer is on. So usually, I just off it.

F3 has normal picture mode which offer you more controls on ISO, White-Balance and so on. I try to shoot in this mode. Unfortunately, I can't come out with a nice picture. I think this is my problems. I don't know how to choose ISO values and so on so forth. Haha! XD

O ya, talking about HD movie recording, the video taken is clear and smooth enough! What disappointed me is that we can't preview the videos taken. We can only preview pictures in F3. What is even more frustrating is that we can't even delete videos taken. We just can't do anything on videos. How stupid it is. Videos are so space-consuming!!!

F3 offers some simple post-edit on pictures, like resize, trim and adding text. It's quite good anyway.

Overall speaking, F3 satisfies my needs for a camera! I will post some pictures taken on next post! ^^

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