Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ70 16.1 MP Digital Camera with 60x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3-Inch LCD (Black)

I like this prouct bcos from past 1.5 years I am using this camera it is worth product :) I am looking for upgrade camera in Panasonic plz advice for DSLR.

Awesome features... Best in the same category of camera. But when it comes to online purchase, amazon.com gives in less price than amazon.in.

Excellent value for the money. Photos are better than expected. You should not of course be compared to a DSLR. But I find I use it more than my 'better' Canon 6D. The problem with high end cameras is finding suitable subjects that use the camera's full capabilities. Its only weakness is for landscape photography. But for everything else, it is as good as one would want. Even a professional can carry it as a backup capera, though it is not a professional camera. It is priced too high. I bought it from a private dealer for less than half the amazon price. It is enough to make one wonder if DSLRs are headed the same way as top line rangefinder cameras like Leica that are now little more than collector items.In addition companies like Panasonic and Sony have huge resources and technology compared to specialist camera makers.

camera is excellent, but its original price is around 21k and in local market you can get it in 17k

Exceptional camera; especially love the 60x optical zoom and overall picture clarity. Simple to use, easy to navigate menus, solid construction, and useful viewfinder as well as a nice large display screen. Weight is not excessive and camera feels balanced. Battery life is very serviceable, allowing for sufficient photos to be taken at events; charging is quick anyway and an additional battery can readily be purchased for real power shooters. Certainly enjoying this camera and, by taking advantage of a recent Anazon price reduction, features for value make this an especially recommended choice!

The zoom range on this camera is unbelievable. The base camera has a 60X zoom range making it the longest of any camera available at the moment. The total zoom range in mm is 20 - 1200 mm which is very impressive. Standard SLR lenses with those types of ranges would require several lenses and untold thousands of dollars......plus the cost of the camera itself. Yet this Lumix jewel accomplishes all that and more at a scant fraction of the cost. The camera is easy to operate, has an incredible amount of built in features and much more just waiting to be discovered by experimenting. An added bonus is the ability to extend the zoom range by selecting image resolutions less than the full 16.1M. While there are those who will always want to shoot at 16.1M for me it is overkill. Image resolution is a subjective issue. It is simply a matter of what you want to believe and are willing to settle for. I currently use a Sony DSLR compact camera like this Lumix, a Nikon D50 with several lenses but usually coupled with a Tamron 18 - 200. This D50 is a 6.1M camera and I have shot and enlarged flawless prints at 11 x 14 with total clarity. Some may take issue with this statement but excessive megapixels in a camera is much like owning a car that will run 150 mph when all you can go on the highway is 55 mph. The capacity is there..........but when, if ever are you going to utilize it. Now, if you are a professional photographer or a serious amateur and routinely enlarge to 16 x 20 or even 20 x 30 or more.....that is one thing. But if your basic need is for standard 4 x 6 prints and an occasional 5 x 7 or even an 8 x 10 then your eye will be hard pressed (if even able to) discern any difference between a 5M photo and a 16M photo. I said all that to say this........one of the great features of this camera is the ability to increase the zoom range by selecting less than 16.1M resolution. I have taken it down all the way to 5M, still get crystal clear pictures and this increases the zoom range from 60X all the way to 270X! Yes, you read correctly!!! Then.....if you add the digital zoom you can end up with a total on camera zoom range of 675X. Have you ever heard of anything like this? Then for fun and games I took a Sony brand teleconvertor for my Sony that is rated for 1.7X and mounted it to my Lumix. The standard filter size for the Lumix is 55mm but I had bought a Goja filter adaptor ring in order to be able to use my several hundred dollars worth of existing filters. Many of them are 58mm so I simply bought a Goja 55mm to 58mm adaptor ring and viola......instant filter availability. AND.....it just so happens that my Sony teleconvertor has 58mm threads and I was able to couple this right to my Lumix, which now takes the 675X max zoom of the camera with izoom and digital zoom, multiples it by 1.7 and now gives a total zoom range of 1147X. That is NOT 1147 mm.............it is 1147X zoom range. Now.......I will admit, the camera is a bear to use in a hand held mode, but that is just what I did to see worse case scenario. I am going to post a couple of pictures taken hand held at these extremes so you can just see the potential this camera offers. My, my......we are almost talking spy type pictures from 10 miles off. I will let you judge the photos........not for clarity or subject matter.........but just for an example of the zoom range of this camera. I will say this here........the bus in the photos was roughly 500 feet from my position and all photos were taken hand held from the same spot. But even without the impressive zoom features......this is one heck of a camera. The pictures, even at 5M are crystal clear and will be certain to please. Then with all the built in special modes, the 11 or more internal filter modes, the 23 or so scene selection modes, and full manual mode with shutter or aperture priority mode.........you can go any route that you need for your shooting needs. Another feature I like about this camera is that while filming a video you can press the shutter button and take a still photo. Or while viewing a video you can take still photos from the video. I am anxious to experiment with this more as I have a son in the band and I usually take multiple cameras to their concerts, etc. in order to video it and also take some still shots. With this camera I am hopeful to be able to do both with one instrument. We have the first White Shoe rehearsal this Thursday and our first football game this Friday. It will be a time to see what this camera can really do with its zooming ability from up in the stands. In closing, as a camera buff of many years (40+) I am well pleased with this purchase. I have had a Pentax SPII, a Pentax ESII, a Nikon N70, a Nikon D50, several smaller point and shoot type all in one cameras and now this Panasonic. For ease of use, range of features and cost vs ability......I put this Panasonic Lumix at the top of the pack in features. No, it does not have the quality that either the Pentax or Nikons do.....but then again..........this camera cost a fraction of what they did and some of the individual accessory lenses I have bought for them in the past cost several times the cost of this camera............so it is not even a fair comparison. But for features...........my expensive toys cannot begin to compare with the ability of this camera. I am well pleased with it. To see the zoom range please look at some of the photos I am going to upload.

Excellent camera. A lot of nice features. The only disappointment is no GPS feature, but for the price and quality, it's definitely worth it.

The Intelligent Auto with this camera at the high and low end of zoom was far more adaptive than my Fujifilm S4000. My Fujifilm camera (which is a 30x optical super zoom camera) had trouble focusing at times when taking indoor shots and some outdoor shots. This camera had no focusing problems in Intelligent auto worthy of reporting. I also found the white balance on this camera to be a step above my Fujifilm S4000. It required me to use my flash more indoors so it could focus and that wasn't so much of an issue with the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ70. It took several indoor shots without the need for a flash and it had real time focus creating images that were sharp and clear. On the long end of the optical zoom I did notice some noise in the image, but that's to be expected with a lens this powerful. It performed very well in high range zoom and in both video and picture taking modes. It's ability to focus in real time during video mode is pretty good and I tested it during a snow storm just to make it a little harder on the camera. It's been boasted online that you can extend the zoom range on this camera by scaling down megapixel setting. It does say that in the manual, but I haven't tested that feature. What I do like about this camera however, is that on the low end of zoom at 20mm, it lets you take a wider shot than other cameras in it's class and some of them even cost more than this camera. Would it be nice if it had a larger sensor? Perhaps, but I haven't really seen any super zoom camera's that compete with it that have a larger sensor anyway. That's probably more for an expensive DSLR anyway. Besides, this camera takes pretty good pictures without the larger sensor. Overall, I'm very satisfied with it and it's sure better than my old FUJI in every way. I don't know if my opinion counts for anything but I can tell you this is a pretty nice camera. I'm glad I bought it and I'm thoroughly happy with it and I bet there's a good chance you will be to. For it's ability, features, and performance, I would say this camera is the best overall value of any camera in it's class being sold today, but that's just one mans opinion. One thing I almost forgot to mention in closing, is that it has a 55mm thread at the end of the lens so you can attach filters for special effects. That's awesome. For example, if you wanted to add a Sepia filter you might be able to make your pictures look like they were taken way back in the late 1800's. It's an awesome special effect. Take care ... and I hope you buy this camera.

I purchased this to replace my 11 year old Nikon D70 DSLR. If I had many thousands of dollars set aside to buy a new DSLR and the long-range telephoto lenses I'd need to get anywhere close to the zoom this camera has, I would. A true DSLR has a larger sensor, resulting in clearer photos and typically a range of options over and above what a camera like this LUMIX has. That said - I'm not a professional photographer, and the photo quality from this camera is exceptionally adequate for my purposes. I chose this particular camera after a lot of research because the length of the telephoto zoom vs the price was unbeatable. I do a lot of hiking, and end up taking pictures of a lot of wildlife - and often you're a great distance away from these animals. A more typical zoom wouldn't allow you to get some of those shots. People have remarked that the photos I've shown them are amazing, and that I must have 'quite the professional camera to get shots like that.' There's definitely nothing wrong with the quality of the photos you'll get from this camera - as long as you keep some things in mind (lighting, bracing the camera for a steady shot when using the long zoom, etc). Pros: - Super-long 60x zoom (1200mm equiv) - Optical Image stabilization (great for those super-long handheld shots) - Automatic HDR using multiple images with back-lit subjects - ever taken a picture of a group of people with the sun in the background, only to find the pictures shows a silhouette of the people as they're too dark to see given the light behind them? This automatically fixes that. -Great video quality too - and the microphone seems to work really well even in the wind - Enough controls to do a lot manually if you want - control shutter speed, aperture, etc. - or leave it in auto and let the camera decide - Build in creative effects if you're into that Cons: - Not water resistant or dust/sand resistant at all - makes me nervous to take it some places - Hard to tell how much battery you have left on the screen or in the viewfinder before it gets to low battery - This is sort of a pro and a con - but it has some internal memory - so you can actually take a number of photos without a memory card in it. This is great until you forget to put your memory card in. I typically turn on my camera and snap a pic of the wall on the way out the door just to ensure came is charged, memory card in place, etc - but it got me with this one. I took all of the photos here with this camera, and all were taken hand-held, no tripod. I think amazon scales down the images for the review - so obviously these aren't at full resolution, but I think they show what you can do...