Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX50 Digital Camera Review

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX50

Digital Camera Review

Sep 20, 2006 - By Emily Raymond
1.8 The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX50 has 7.2 megapixels and an optically stabilized Leica 3.6x zoom lens. It’s features consist of a slew of automatic modes, including 18 scenes and a Simple mode that turns the FX50 into a point-and-shoot digital camera. There is a High Sensitivity scene mode on this model that goes up to ISO 3200 to capture subjects cast in low light without having to use the built-in flash. The body is plainly styled and comes in silver and black colors, and has a huge 3-inch LCD screen on its back. The Panasonic FX50 can record widescreen pictures and videos and retails for $399.
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Connectivity
Software (7.25)
The included CD-ROM has a bunch of photo management and editing software on it, along with a USB driver for the Panasonic FX50 digital camera. The Lumix Simple Viewer program is extremely basic and really only works when the camera is directly connected to the computer. This program transfers images to the computer and allows users to view them.

To do more, users will have to access the other programs. There are three ArcSoft programs included. ArcSoft PhotoBase 4.5 is a great organizational tool. There are tools to sort photos by name, type, size, date, title, keyword, and description. Users can also rename, resize, or convert entire batches of images simultaneously. Simple editing can be done in this program too. Rotation, cropping, resizing, red-eye reduction, text additions, brightness, contrast, drawing, and automatic enhancement can be achieved with the editor tool.  


PhotoImpression 5 allows users to get photos and enhance them. The program isn’t as intuitive as the PhotoBase software. The PhotoImpression allows for more manual control over manipulating the image though. There are magic wand and lasso tools to select areas of an image to enhance. The simple stuff can be done here too: cropping, resizing, rotating, etc. Users can also add a host of interesting color filters, effects, frames, clip art, and text. From this software program, calendars and photo books can be made. There are plenty of templates to work from that make it simple. Printing and emailing can be done from PhotoImpression too.

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