Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9S 6.0 Megapixel
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Product ID: EPID48126995
Description: The DMC-FX9 features a 2.5" diagonal high-resolution LCD monitor - surprisingly large for such a compact camera. This high-quality, 207, 000-pixel display makes it easy to see your subject. For easier viewing when shooting outdoors on a ...
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9S 6.0 MegapixelReview created: 02/10/08
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The high resolution screen is excellent especially when operated in the brightness-boost mode (which I use all the time). The viewing angles for the LCD screen are very good horizontally, but not so good vertically. By this I mean that you can observe the screen from either side without the colors changing much but there are fairly major changes if you tilt the screen towards or away from you.
The movie mode is excellent, especially in 30 fps, VGA (640 X 480 pixels). However in this mode it chews through memory at an alarming rate of around 1.3 Mbytes per second! I would strongly recommend buying a 1 GB SD card if movies are going to be taken. Also note that a high speed card is required – at least 10 Mbytes per second write speed.
Battery life is pretty good and a big improvement on the FX7. It is a pity that there is no option to charge the battery via the USB cable that is provided to transfer images to a computer.
Start-up time is nice and fast; in fact all aspects of the camera are fast and responsive. The high speed focus modes also work well.
White balance is a bit too cool in Auto White Balance mode. It can be set to ‘warm’ in the Color Effects menu but this takes it a bit too far the other way, although it seems to be a good setting for flash. In the other white balance modes (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten etc) you can easily trim the WB via the top button on the navigation pad.
The movie mode is excellent, especially in 30 fps, VGA (640 X 480 pixels). However in this mode it chews through memory at an alarming rate of around 1.3 Mbytes per second! I would strongly recommend buying a 1 GB SD card if movies are going to be taken. Also note that a high speed card is required – at least 10 Mbytes per second write speed.
Battery life is pretty good and a big improvement on the FX7. It is a pity that there is no option to charge the battery via the USB cable that is provided to transfer images to a computer.
Start-up time is nice and fast; in fact all aspects of the camera are fast and responsive. The high speed focus modes also work well.
White balance is a bit too cool in Auto White Balance mode. It can be set to ‘warm’ in the Color Effects menu but this takes it a bit too far the other way, although it seems to be a good setting for flash. In the other white balance modes (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten etc) you can easily trim the WB via the top button on the navigation pad.
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