Shootout: 18x EVF Superzooms
By Ryan • Nov 29th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Jack Howard of PopPhoto.com:
“The competition is heating up in the 18x superzoom EVF category! Earlier this year it was simple: If you wanted an 18x zoom EVF, you had one choice, the 7-megapixel Olympus SP-550UZ ($340, street). Now, the original superduperzoom has been joined by an 8-megapixel Olympus sister, the SP-560UZ ($450, street), and two competitors, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 ($350, street) and the Fujifilm Finepix S8000fd ($320, street ).
These cameras offer a lot of big-camera functionality in a small package, along with wide-angle to supertelephoto reach that’s got more versatility than any DLSR lens on the marketplace. All this for less than an entry-level SLR with a wide-normal kit lens.
Looking over the spec lists, these cameras have a lot in common: Optical- or sensor-shift stabilization, wide to supertelephoto zoom lenses, face detection, a host of scene and shooting modes including full manual control, and VGA video capture, to list just a few. But after running these three 18x digicams through our lab and field tests, these are three different cameras.”
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