Home > Consumer Reviews > Panasonic DMCFZ28 Digital Camera - Black (10.1MP, 18x Optical Zoom) 2.7" LCD

I agree with virtually everything mentioned by the other reviewers. An excellent carera, better than either of my previous superzooms (Fuji S5600 and Dimage A200). Very well thought out menu system, very intuitive and easy to see on the large display. I particularly like the feature that allows you to increase the zoom past 18x, when using lower resolutions (up to 32x for 3MP). Obviously you could just take the shots at 10MP (at 18x) and then crop the photos down - but this feature saves you cropping and more importantly allows you to take more photos using burst, without filling up your card.

The only downside, not enough to reduce it's rating to 4 stars, is that the EVF is pretty hopeless, even compared to my S5600. So I'll probably stick to the screen.

Great price bought directly from Amazon, much lower than a certain highstreet shop, who didn't seem very interested in selling me one at anything less than full price! I also bought a Hama 46mm filter which will screw onto the end of the lens, protecting it from dust (I go to some pretty dust locations). This allows you to still use the supplied lens cap, which attaches to the camera housing (not the lens). An alternative to this is to buy an adaptor (LA3) for the additional zoom/macro and screw a filter onto the end of this (instead of the zoom/macro). Although this would completely seal the lens and lense mechanism from dust, to me it seemed a bit over the top, since you also have to buy a new lens cap in addition to the adaptor and a larger filter (the end of the adaptor is 55mm).

In summary, very please with it.

well ive had this camera now for a few days ( 22/08/08 ) - great camera !! i love the AI function its just great , you have no need to do anything apart from zoom and adjust the megapixels ..
the quality of photos is just excellent they are so clear and sharp ..

the camera is so easy to use and the instruction booklet is good , plus the battery only takes 2 hrs to charge not like other camera rechargeable that can take 5 hours or more to charge ..

im ordering a additional memory card & battery as well , much needed because i love the video camera function ..

i bought the lowepro apex 100 aw camera bag to fit it in , if you want to put all of your panasonic accesories inside it i suggest you get a bigger camera bag ..

i got this panasonic FZ28 camera to replace my olympus E510 DSLR camera , i had only owned the olympus for almost 3 months .. i wanted to go back to a shoot & point camera , ive got 4 children and i need a fast shooting camera , so i chose this one , i 1st saw the FZ18 camera , but i saw that panasonic were bringing a new model out and i chose this one , ive never owned a panasonc camera so this is my 1st experience , its such a great little camera , much much lighter than the DSLR camera and no having to keep changing lens all the time ..

i will miss the DSLR but im really really happy with this little panasonic camera .. its simular to my old sony dsc h5 camera in style , but quality and spec the panasonic wins it ..

on the TRUSTED REVIEWS WEBSITE - its been given a editors choice .. 10/10 over all ..

you won't be disapointed with this great camera im not ..

just got to order more memory for the camera & an extra battery !!


thanku - panasonic & amazon !!

I bought this camera 2 weeks ago and am very pleased with it's performance up to 400 ISO. Above this, pictures are somewhat blurry and unless you really need to shoot at 800 or 1600 ISO don't.

As with a previous reviewer I too went for the lowepro Apex 100 and it's ideal if you are carrying the camera, spare battery and SD card. There's no space for anything else though. It's a good quality bag and I highly recommend it. Don't buy a cheap bag without padding as the camera will break if dropped!

I've bought a Sandisk Extreme III 4GB card and this too is excellent. Beware of slow cards as thy will take for ever to save your images and you can't do anything until the images are saved on the card. Note that not all SD cards are equal. I've tried a few a although not the cheapest do recommend the Sandisk.

Optical Zoom is 18x if you're shooting with 10MP. This increases to 32x as you lower the resolution to 3MP. No optical zoom increase below 3MP.

I've found the battery to be good for 500 shots which is certainly above average for this type of camera.

All in all an excellent camera and highly recommended.

I'm loving this new camera. It's still early doors yet but already the camera is so much better than my Fujifilm finepix F50.

I love all the options this camera has. The extensive instructions. The excellent flash, the massive zoom.

As per previous reviews this camera seems to be getting a lot of excellent reviews from the pro's, so I'm happy to add my own voice to the massive chorus of praise.

If only a camera this good was small enough to fit in my pocket.

I have found this camera to be just as impressive as the vast majority of reviews indicate. Just one piece of information which others might find useful: I bought a 4GB SDHC card for the camera and then found that I couldn't view the pictures on it using my pc's inbuilt SD card reader; nor could I use my old external SD card reader. After investigation I've discovered that SDHC cards need a compatible reader. Fortunately these are available through Amazon for less than £3. Best to purchase one when you order the FZ28.