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| Review Date: January 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: P. Nash, |
I'm a professional photographer with 25 yrs experience. Came down to the FX 37.. Canon sd 990 or the
Sony dswc T-77.
Sent the Canon right back. Clever design, too bulky, and guaranteed to slip through your fingers.
Sony, nice and slim, but too many menus, plus the touch screen is awkward and will drive you insane.
The FX 37 is very small, very fast, push buttons, and a 25mm wide-angle lens. Plus it extends to a nice telephoto...125mm. All you will ever need and POCKETABLE. Have the camera with you. Never miss the shot.
Beautiful construction. Feels solid. Very easy to shoot. Focus tracking. Leica lens. HD video. Excellent prints.
It's a no brainer. |
First Impressions very positive
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| Review Date: August 29, 2008 |
| Reviewer: D. Breslauer, Park City, Utah |
When Panasonic announced their new cameras, I was interested in this model for its size, lens and image size. They have ceased the race for megapixel king and I was hoping image quality and not megapixels would become important.
Camera is 10MP, and has a 5x wide angle zoom. Plenty of MP for most uses and users.
The 5X zoom, while not the smoothest when zooming, the range is really appreciated. From a wide to a nice short tele! Very useful. On of my favorite things to do on vacation is to make "two-fers" self portraits of my wife and I. Not easy to do with most point and shoots, not wide enough to capture people and ambiance. This one fits the bill nicely!
First impressions: Camera is smaller than I had expected. This is a plus. It is the same size dimensionally as the Sony Cybershot T-5 it replaces.Also a plus. It is lighter than the Sony, and does not have that "solid" feeling. I consider this a neutral or slight minus.
Fast on the Draw, acceptable shutter lag from this class of camera (I use a D2X as well). Facial recognition focus seems to work too.
One of the most easy to navigate and use menus I have come across. It is distilled to a bare minimum.
Wish it captured RAW data.
I had been concerned, and started to have buyers remorse before I received the camera when I read some reviews of the predecessor about noise in poorly illuminated settings. This does not seem to be a problem. My abbreviated testing in low light has very acceptable results. (Your mileage may vary of course.)
For the price, this seems to be quite a nice camera for a carry everywhere camera. |
Amazing and Tiny camera, HD video are you KIDDING?!
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| Review Date: February 20, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Dave A. Pinke, |
So I've always been a huge film snob, and for a while had a Nikon D40 as my digital camera until I decided it was too big to want to deal with. For a while I was using disposable 35mm cameras, but as I've been doing a lot of traveling lately, I thought I'd get a little digital camera. I did a ton of research, and was interested in the similar Canon and Sony offerings, but I couldn't be happier with the Fx37. I love the wide angle which is great for taking self portraits and such things when traveling alone, but also works great for interior shots.
Not only does it take incredible pictures with the leica optics, I actually become must more into shooting video on it as it shoots native 720p video. Its amazing! For some example of video I've done please click below, the quality is amazing and thats considering its compressed on Vimeo.
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Anyway, its very small, extremely fast, good in all conditions and the video is shoots is amazing! Why this isn't the best selling camera on the market is beyond me. But now you know, so go for it!
-DP |
A great little camera
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| Review Date: October 19, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Peter Diding, Sweden |
| I bought this fx37 as a complement to my Canon 40D. First - it is small enougt to always bring it along. To get a good picture the first thing you must do is to bring a camera! Most of the time I bring my fx37 instead of my 40D. Second - the wide angle of 24ยค is great. It is easy to get photoes in a room and get most of the room in the picture. Third - the 5x optical zoom is large enough for most pictures you will need, special handheld with the anti-shake. The anti-shake is a great help to get clear pictures. There are many more things this camera can do - and it is so easy to handle. So, all in all, this p&s is quite a little camera and best of all - it takes GREAT pictures! I can recomend it as an all around camera and especially a camera to bring on regular vacation trips. My 40D will have to wait for the big African safari trips and similar special events. |
King of point and shoot
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| Review Date: January 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Y. Lien, CA, USA |
Wow ! This is the statement that I can say once I start using this camera.
Wide angle, IA mode (fully automatic). I took this camera to Pasadena,CA down town to test night scene right after I got this camera. I use the IA mode and just keep point and shoot while I was walking down the street. A friend of mine has a Canon Powershot SD1100IS, I can see he kept getting black out on his LCD due to the darkness at night, but mine, every picture came out nicely. I am not an expert on camera, what I need is a camera that I can point and shoot anytime I want to and come out decent result. This camera does the job, and because its wide angle, the results are breath-takingly good.
This camera is so compact (tiny), if you want a 25mm wide angle camera in such a small footprint, this is the only one you can get in the market right now. You can also try its manual setting to have much better results, but for me, IA (fully automatic) mode is good enough for me already. I think I will start carrying this camera with me all the time, and you know what? Photography is now becoming interesting to me because this camera opens a new field that I had never been in before ...
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