| Like |
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- 3-inch LCD screen
- Widescreen movies
- Organized menus
- Easy to use
- 18 scene modes
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| Dislikes |
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- Boring design
- No zoom in movies
- Lots of noise in pictures
- Some features hidden (exposure bracketing and white balance fine tuning)
- Two-step aperture system
- Unreliable auto focus system
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Conclusion
The Panasonic Lumix FX50 is an average digital camera with a few above average features and below average image quality. The camera itself has a 3.6x lens, optical image stabilization, and 3-inch LCD screen packaged in a bland design. Still, the chunk of plastic and metal is less than an inch thick and slides into pockets and purses for easy transportation. In that way, it is a very convenient camera. Better still, it is easy to use. It has 18 scene modes, a Simple mode that automates just about everything, and a simple direct printing interface. Everything about the FX50 isn’t this good though. Its images are so noisy that they look like painted pictures with messy brush strokes. The auto focus system doesn’t handle low light well at all, so pictures are bound to be blurry despite the image stabilization and wide manual ISO range. If the FX50 were reasonably priced, all of this might be okay. However, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX50 has a retail price tag of $399 which is much too high for a point-and-shoot that doesn’t take gorgeous pictures.
