I was looking thru my photobucket pics and would like to share some pics taken from my old camera PANASONIC FZ20. It has an optical zoom of 12X and a digital zoom of 4X which is to say in normal 35mm film camera, it has up 420mm zoom and a further digital enhanced zoom totalling an AWESOME of 1680mm!!!

And the above mentioned is w/o lens or filter added just the prosumer camera itself! And featuring also is its awesome IS(Image stabilization)! Below are pics taken by me from a hill near my house. All were taken hand held and a slight wind condition.

0X zoom:


Full 12X optical zoom:


A Further 4X digital zoom which is equivalent to 48X zoom, it is digital zoom and there is a slight lost in resolution but you notice something? You can actually see the last 4 digits of the truck "7213"!!!:



So what do you think of the FZ20's POWER of ZOOM???? AWESOME?!?!?

This thread is specially dedicate to Oscar and Tom whom both have this awesome camera!

Last edited on Thu Feb 9th, 2006 08:30 am by watchboy