Panasonic has the Lumix FZ48-advanced bridge camera announced. The camera has a 24x-zoom lens, which is provided with a nanocoating, and has a new ccd image sensor with 12.1 megapixels and a faster readout.
The Lumix FZ48 is the official successor of the Lumix FZ45, which in July last year was announced. The new advanced bridge camera like the FZ45, a 24x-zoom lens with a zoom range equivalent to 25-600mm in film camera equivalents. Panasonic has the lens, however, with a so-called nanocoating, which is undesirable reflections must fight. This delivers, according to Panasonic sharper images. The lenseenheid consists of fourteen lens elements, including three ed glass and two aspherical lens elements in ten groups. The lens is equipped with optical image stabilization.
Except the lens has Panasonic the image sensor is improved. The noise level of this ‘Hi-Speed CCD would be lower by larger micro-lenses above the fotodiodes, that more light on the sensor surface should shine. Also has the FZ48 about two megapixels less than its predecessor. The new image sensor can more quickly be read by the use of two uitleeskanalen. Due to this higher speed and the Venus Engine FHD image processor, it is possible to 1080/25p-video in mp4 format to shoot. The bitrate exceeds 20Mbps. Is avchd, 1080/50i the highest resolution.
Panasonic has the FZ48 equipped with a 3″lcd with 460.000 subpixels, a doubling compared to the FZ45. Also, Panasonic has new effects added to the camera, including a miniature effect, ‘film grain’, ‘pinhole’ and ‘high dynamic’. The miniature effect is enhanced by the fact that these pictures about five times accelerated play. With this Creative Control modes is exposure compensation. The camera has a manual shooting mode and a 3D Photo mode. In this last mode, in quick succession twenty pictures during a pan made, after which the camera two photographs a 3d image.
Except the Lumix FZ48 announces Panasonic the Lumix LS5. This is a small compact camera in the cheaper segment. Especially for this segment is that the camera is equipped with optical image stabilization. The LS5 has a 5x zoom lens with a range of 26-130mm. The largest aperture is at the wide-angle is a decent f/2.8, but the lens remains f/6,3 on.
The LS5 has a ccd image sensor with 14.1 megapixels, which allows 720/30p video in mjpg format can be included. The camera has a 2.7″lcd with a resolution of 230,000 sub-pixel. Two AA batteries provide the power supply.
