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I recently bought an FZ-82 for a specific purpose, whilst trying it out, thought I would make some casual comparisons between it and the TZ-60, G80 and G9.
Totally subjective, just my view from trying them together.
The first thing that struck me was the noise.
I don’t know why I expected less, obviously it was not a thinking expectation
It is actually fairly good in good light, as long as the whole frame is looked at.
It is as far as I can see (in terms of noise) exactly the same as the TZ60.
Compared to the G80, it is noisier, but it has an advantage over the G80 if you have to crop the G80 shot to get the same in the frame as the FZ82 at full zoom.
This advantage seems to be soon lost in less than ideal light though, the G80 soon becomes better.
The digital and extended zooms on the FZ 82 are really not worth having, unless the light is extremely good, or you have to have the shot regardless. The same goes for the TZ60.
One somewhat disappointing find on the FZ82 is that it does not have an “artificial horizon” which I have come to use a lot on Lumix cameras.
The lens is good, at all lengths, can’t make up my mind which is better, the FZ82 or TZ60.
Like the TZ60, the aperture range is very limited.
Where it really scores above the TZ60 is its optical zoom of 1200mm vs 720mm (35mm eq) This gives a very worthwhile improvement in the image when you have to crop the TZ60’s image more to get the same end result.
The wide end of the zoom is better than the TZ60, 20mm vs the TZ60’s 24, though I think many places where that would be useful, the smaller camera might be more useful.
It is also very comfortable to use, customising the buttons, it can be almost the same as using the M43 Lumix cameras.
It is certainly a worthwhile alternative to an M43 where convenience and less things to carry is needed. (If I knew the light was going to be poor, I think I would use an M43 though)
A X1 close up lens with the lens at 1200mm allows you to fill the frame with a bee, from 2’ away, and the lens itself at 1200mm will focus down to about 5’, which is very handy.
I did do a couple of comparisons with the G9, but stopped as there really was nowhere it was going to compare, except when looking at the whole frame with no crop, under ideal light, and looking on a computer screen, then the differences between all of them don’t really show up.
They all take good pictures under the right conditions, and it is certainly going to be good for what I bought it.
Totally subjective, just my view from trying them together.
The first thing that struck me was the noise.
I don’t know why I expected less, obviously it was not a thinking expectation
It is actually fairly good in good light, as long as the whole frame is looked at.
It is as far as I can see (in terms of noise) exactly the same as the TZ60.
Compared to the G80, it is noisier, but it has an advantage over the G80 if you have to crop the G80 shot to get the same in the frame as the FZ82 at full zoom.
This advantage seems to be soon lost in less than ideal light though, the G80 soon becomes better.
The digital and extended zooms on the FZ 82 are really not worth having, unless the light is extremely good, or you have to have the shot regardless. The same goes for the TZ60.
One somewhat disappointing find on the FZ82 is that it does not have an “artificial horizon” which I have come to use a lot on Lumix cameras.
The lens is good, at all lengths, can’t make up my mind which is better, the FZ82 or TZ60.
Like the TZ60, the aperture range is very limited.
Where it really scores above the TZ60 is its optical zoom of 1200mm vs 720mm (35mm eq) This gives a very worthwhile improvement in the image when you have to crop the TZ60’s image more to get the same end result.
The wide end of the zoom is better than the TZ60, 20mm vs the TZ60’s 24, though I think many places where that would be useful, the smaller camera might be more useful.
It is also very comfortable to use, customising the buttons, it can be almost the same as using the M43 Lumix cameras.
It is certainly a worthwhile alternative to an M43 where convenience and less things to carry is needed. (If I knew the light was going to be poor, I think I would use an M43 though)
A X1 close up lens with the lens at 1200mm allows you to fill the frame with a bee, from 2’ away, and the lens itself at 1200mm will focus down to about 5’, which is very handy.
I did do a couple of comparisons with the G9, but stopped as there really was nowhere it was going to compare, except when looking at the whole frame with no crop, under ideal light, and looking on a computer screen, then the differences between all of them don’t really show up.
They all take good pictures under the right conditions, and it is certainly going to be good for what I bought it.
