Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX580 Digital Camera Review - Panasonic Point and Shoot and Non-DSLR

	Sample Photos
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Sample Photos

In the following sample images, clicking on the larger image will download the full resolution original. Each photo is accompanied by three actual-size crops.

Landscape Sample
			Focal length: 4.4mm ISO: 80 Aperture: f/3.2 Shutter speed: 1/640 Taken outdoors, on a partly cloudy day. Shot in program mode with automatic white balance.
			Even though it was fairly bright out, the camera didn't use a smaller aperture, though it could have. The highlights in the clouds blow out.

Macro Sample

Focal length: 4.4mm
ISO: 80
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter speed: 1/250

Just after a rainstorm, this water drop was suspended from a statue's nose, and provided a gorgeous macro shot.

Shot in program mode, with macro enabled, and a manual white balance.

The maximum aperture of f/2.8 allowed for a very sharp area at the center of the image, and a soft background.

Noise Reduction Sample
			Noise reduction -2 Focal length: 11.3 ISO: 1600 Aperture: f/4.0 Shutter speed: 1/4 These three shots were all taken under exactly the same shooting conditions, but with different levels of noise reduction. From this you can see if ramping it up improves anything dramatically. In our opinion, the noise reduction does improve the image noise levels, but the sharpness loss is dramatic, especially at +2.
			Noise reduction 0
			Noise reduction +2
			Noise reduction (from the left) -2, 0, +2

Color Sample
			Focal length: 6.8mm ISO: 80 Aperture: f/8 Shutter speed: 1/2 This shot shows a group of familiar objects with immediately recognizable colors. It was shot under a combination of fluorescent and incandescent illumination, using automatic white balance.
			In our testing, the camera struggled with dark greens, blues and oranges.

Still Life Examples

Click on any of the images below to see full size shots of our still life setup, taken at each available ISO for all our comparison cameras.

	Still Life Comparisons

	Panasonic FX580	Canon SD970	Samsung HZ15W	Sony T900
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NOTE: The images above are not used in our testing or scoring, but are included here to show real-world examples of the differences between cameras at the various ISO settings.

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