
- #SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 3.0 SE REVIEW MOVIE#
- #SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 3.0 SE REVIEW 720P#
- #SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 3.0 SE REVIEW MANUAL#
Intelligent Auto, Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority,Manual, Creative Movie, My Color, Portrait, Scenery, Sports, Night Portrait, Close-up, Scene, Customįace AF, Tracking AF, Multi AF (23-area), 1-area (flexible and scalable), ManualĮxpressive, Retro, Pure, Elegant, Monochrome, High Dynamic, Dynamic Art, Dynamic B&W, Silhouette, Pin Hole, Film Grain, CustomĪs Panasonic's highest-end compact, the the FZ100 has no shortage of shooting options. If you are recording in a very quiet environment, you will hear it in your movies, but otherwise it's difficult to hear.Īuto, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Halogen, Color Temperature, Custom (2) The zoom does operate while recording, but its movement is picked up by the stereo mic. Low-light recording suffers from the same noise problems as in photos.
#SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 3.0 SE REVIEW 720P#
The 720p video appears much smoother, though the video isn't as sharp. However, as with most point-and-shoot cameras, panning the camera results in a lot of judder. The 1080i AVCHD clips are sharp with good exposure and color.
#SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 3.0 SE REVIEW MOVIE#
One of the big selling points for the FZ100 is its movie capabilities, and it delivers. Though it is a digital zoom, the results are usable and really no worse than images I've seen from cameras with longer optical zooms. Also, Panasonic's Intelligent Zoom digitally extends the zoom range to 32x. What is nice is that the maximum aperture at 600mm is f5.2, allowing you to use lower ISOs and faster shutter speeds. Going by the other megazooms available in 2010, the FZ100's 24x 25-600mm zoom range (35mm equivalent) won't win a specsmanship contest. Fringing is under control for the most part, too, but I did see some in very high-contrast areas of photos when they're viewed at 100 percent. The lens is consistent edge to edge, with the exception of a slight bit of softness at the far right side and corners. There's also no sign of pincushion distortion when extended. Panasonic controls the barrel distortion fairly well from the 25-millimeter-equivalent ultrawide-angle lens.

#SILKYPIX DEVELOPER STUDIO 3.0 SE REVIEW MANUAL#
Whenever possible, use the presets or take a manual reading, which is really easy to do and you can store two presets. Unfortunately, you're stuck with that setting if you're using Intelligent Auto or most of the other automatic shooting modes. White-balance presets are OK for the most part however, the auto-white balance is not good indoors. Plus, there are a number of ways to tweak your color results. Subjects appear natural, bright, and reasonably accurate.

(View the photo sample slideshow to see what I mean.) Thankfully, the camera is fast enough that you don't pay a performance penalty for shooting in raw.Ĭolor is very good from the FZ100 up to ISO 400. However, if you don't mind shooting in raw or raw+JPEG, you can process the images yourself and get much better results. ISO 800 and 1,600 are unusable except maybe at small sizes. But again, as soon as you jump up to ISO 400, noise and Panasonic's JPEG processing result in soft smeary details and yellow blotching. Photos straight from the camera are very good up to ISO 200 with nice color and relatively low noise. Photofunstudio 5.2 HD Edition (Windows), SilkyPix Developer Studio 3.1 SE (Windows, Mac)
