Same with Market St. At full telephoto, the sharpening paid off on the office buildings, clearly delineating the windows and features. The smoothing is still there but is not as objectionable well, no trees. The digital zoom shot in the series looks like a mess at full resolution, as you might expect. But downsampled a bit, it really comes off better than most.
You can often tell the digital zoom shot in the series by its quality even in the thumbnails, but not this time. Almost all of the shots from this shoot show a dramatic tonal scale thanks in part to the passing storm with vibrant blue skies and voluminous clouds. Still, in a couple of them, the sky went a little too far, and is even blown out in the shot of the logs running up hill.
The camera just didn't expose those shots correctly. The first set of low-light doll shots were a catastrophe. In fairness to the Panasonic ZS7, it is a very dark shot. The ISO image comes closest to mimicking the situation.
ISO 6, bins the pixels into a 1, x 2, image. It yields a lighter thumbnail but the full resolution version is devoid of detail. I took another set of doll shots under slightly brighter conditions but still so dim you would never think of turning your camera on. This time low-light results were better, although hampered by camera blur at low shutter speeds.
It's worth listening to your shutter sound in a situation like this. If it isn't snappy, increase the ISO. In this case, the best shots were the Intelligent Auto shot pictured and Scene mode shot.
Most interesting were the two Program shots. Both are stabilized, too. But the Program shot is blurry and the Intelligent Auto shot sharp. A discrepancy I got used to. The forced ISO 1, shot loses some color compared to the Intelligent Auto shot but hangs onto the detail. My shots at Ocean Beach are a real puzzle. Apparently that was a mistake. The first beach shot and the second beach shot were taken at the same spot.
I simply shot one to the south you know, where the sun trolls and one to the north. The sky at the time, believe me, was the same color. But not to the Panasonic ZS7. There seems to be a storm coming in when I looked south and balmy days when I looked north. ISO on a sunny day? What was the Panasonic ZS7 thinking? Was it trying to stop the motion of the waves?
And why in one and not the other? Shooting Rodin's Thinker at the Legion of Honor teaches you everything you need to know about photography. It is, first of all, a dark subject, and not only because the bronze is dark. The sun is on his back, not his face and hands. And it is hard to compose it well with the surrounding building insisting on sneaking into the frame. So it's tricky.
You have to decide just what exactly it is about the statute that you want to capture. It certainly won't be what you see. In the first shot see the Gallery page , the blue sky held up well while the dark statue held onto detail, too. In fact, looking at the full resolution images, the shadow detail is very well captured.
Those bumps you see on his head and shoulders are rain drops. Noise Reduction was Standard. I did use On the second shot, the idea was to highlight not the silhouette but the surfaces.
So the sky was sacrificed. It's nearly a monochrome image but the camera captured what I was after. A few scenics follow, the typical travel shot. It was fun to play these back and see them labeled Lincoln Park. The Panasonic ZS7 has a database of locations and monuments built in and can caption playback with the information based on the GPS tags.
I didn't include the shots in the gallery because Security here at the bunker wouldn't allow it, but I did shoot a wall of books with the morning light streaming through from a window on the left wall.
Very high contrast. A perfect test for Intelligent Exposure. I did notice some difference from the four shots Off, Low, Mid, and High. I've included histograms from Lightroom to illustrate the changes. Oddly enough one of the images uses a different ISO.
But the key things to observe are the increasing shift in shadow values toward the midtones as the option is intensified and, more importantly, the highlight values.
On the image itself, highlights are blown and remain so, suggesting that Intelligent Exposure doesn't protect highlight detail. That's usually the reason for this sort of tool, so it's an odd approach and not one I found particularly valuable. Finally, I gave Intelligent Auto a tough test. I took a night shot of Tower Market pretending to be a world famous landmark using both Program with all the bells and whistles and Intelligent Auto.
Power OIS is supposed to be the trick here, but both shots employed it. Notice, however, how much sharper the Intelligent Auto shot is.
In three days I didn't really get a chance to run through everything the camera can do. But I suspect I wouldn't have gotten a handle on it in three months either. There's simply a lot of technology packed into this little box. Prints from the Panasonic ZS7 are good up to 16x20 inches in terms of resolution at ISO 80 and , but there's a noticeable dark tint that affects certain colors in the test image, including yellow and orange colors.
Detail is quite good, though. ISO shots make a good 13xinch print with only minor softening appearing in fine detail from noise suppression. ISO 1, shots are soft on close inspection, but look good when printed at 5x7 inches and smaller.
Overall a good performance from the Panasonic ZS7, though the rendering of yellows in particular is the only disappointing aspect. But after reading both detailed reviews, you shouldn't have any doubts about which one best fits your style. I like them both so much that I finally understand why pants come with at least two pockets. I had a little more trouble with the Panasonic ZS7 because too many of the intelligent features didn't work for me. Others, like Intelligent Exposure, I decided offered much less help than I'd hoped.
And some, like Intelligent Resolution, seemed to be no-brainer benefits. Ultimately, though, I found trusting the camera in either regular Program mode or Intelligent Auto routinely captured a better shot than I could in Program mode with all the extra features. I also really liked the GPS implementation. The information I needed Are we synched? To how many satellites?
While some tags are not reported like heading and altitude that did not bother me. Altitude triangulated from GPS data is seldom very accurate, especially with just a few satellites. But being able to translate GPS data in the camera into locations was a real benefit and would be a boon on a trip.
Its higher resolution LCD is beautiful and lets you confirm focus more easily, and its 12x zoom gets you in as close as you want, or lets you step back as far as you need, without stepping at all. And when you're done, all of the Panasonic ZS7's zoom power sits comfortably in a pocket. DMC-ZS7 vs Navigate Review Jump to review page Imaging Resource rating 4.
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