Panasonic Lumix Fz80 4k 60x Zoom Camera Honest Review

Panasonic FZ80 Review -- Now Shooting!

Updates:
01/30/2017: First Shots posted
02/22/2017: Gallery images posted
03/01/2017: Field Test posted!

While the Panasonic FZ80 doesn't start shipping to the general public until mid-March, nosotros got our hands on an early on production model and after posting First Shots, we immediately sent it out to photographer and writer Jeremy Gray in Maine to check it out. To come across how this affordable superzoom fared in the real world, see Jeremy's Gallery images and click here to read his detailed Panasonic FZ80 Field Test!

For those looking for our overview that explores the camera's features and specs, please click here.

Panasonic FZ80 Field Test

Versatile superzoom includes many features, some compromises

by Jeremy Greyness | Posted 03/01/2017

148.1mm (827mm equivalent), f/5.six, 1/400s, ISO 320. This paradigm has been cropped. Click for original epitome.

Introduction

Back in 2013, Panasonic launched the FZ70. The all-in-one superzoom photographic camera offered a then unprecedented 60x optical zoom. Since so, many new superzooms have entered the market, just Panasonic hasn't had any respond, at least not in the superzoom category. That has changed with the introduction of the Panasonic FZ80.

Sporting the same 60x zoom lens, the Lumix FZ80 brings with information technology a new higher-resolution image sensor, new processor and a bevy of new features, including 4K UHD video recording. Let's see how the Panasonic FZ80 fares in the field.

Fundamental Features and Info

• 18.1-megapixel i/2.3-inch CMOS sensor
• 60x zoom lens (20-1200mm equivalent f/2.viii-5.9)
• 3-inch touchscreen LCD display
• ten frames per second continuous shooting
• RAW format support
• 4K UHD video recording
• 4K Photo modes
• Built-in Wi-Fi
• U.s.a.$400 street toll

3.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/five.6, i/500s, ISO 80. Click for total-size image.

FZ80 has a skilful touchscreen interface

The Panasonic FZ80 shares like styling with its predecessor, the FZ70. It is an SLR-styled superzoom camera that offers a massive 60x optical zoom range, meaning that it is not a compact camera. The FZ80'due south dimensions are near 5.i 10 iii.vii x 4.vii inches (130 x 94 x 119 millimeters) and information technology weighs 21.7 ounces (616 grams) with menu and battery, which is just a scrap shorter and a bit heavier than its predecessor.

Priced at $400, which is a great bargain for a 4K-capable superzoom camera, it is hard to be overly critical of the build quality of the FZ80. At that place are ample physical controls on the photographic camera, which is first-class. Compared to the $1200 Panasonic FZ2500, which I used recently, the FZ80, every bit would be expected, feels like much more than of an inexpensive camera and the FZ80 certainly feels less robust in apply. The epitome stabilization and the autofocus organisation both work well only I did notice some dissonance from both systems when in utilize.

The Panasonic FZ80's controls are quite adept overall, and the touchscreen interface performs nicely. The shutter release feels fine and the zoom toggle switch around the release works well. The FZ80 only has one control dial, just it's pressable which allows information technology to speedily change functions. For example in manual exposure mode, you lot can switch between controlling the shutter speed and the discontinuity by only clicking the dial. You can also press it switch to/from exposure compensation in aperture- or shutter-priority fashion, etc.

The built-in electronic viewfinder is a 0.ii-inch color LCD with ane,166k dots and approximately 100% coverage. The 35mm equivalent magnification of the EVF is merely 0.46x -- still useful, simply it's small-scale, every bit is par for the course for this form of photographic camera. There'south no built-in eye sensor, but rather switching between the EVF and the rear display requires you to printing a button to the right of the EVF; which is troublesome when wanting to shoot through the EVF and review images on the rear display. A modest issue I have with the EVF is that the diopter adjustment dial to the right of the eyecup is piece of cake to suit accidentally. I occasionally had to tweak the diopter back to my desired setting after conveying the photographic camera around my neck because my jacket would move the dial.

The rear display on the photographic camera is adept and I oft found myself opting to use it in lieu of the EVF in many situations. The 3-inch touchscreen LCD has 1,040,000 dots and is a fixed display. A tilting brandish would exist welcome, especially because the display can be difficult to meet in vivid conditions.

The lack of quality of employ features such as an eye sensor for the viewfinder and a tilting brandish are notable. With that said, in other more important ways, the FZ80 doesn't experience like a $400 photographic camera, but rather like a quite capable enthusiast-oriented superzoom. The amount of physical controls is excellent and the touchscreen functionality works well to make the camera more outgoing for newer photographers while as well speeding up the procedure of irresolute settings in the field for more advanced users.

Panasonic FZ80 Shooting Features

Paradigm Quality and High ISO Performance

The FZ80 uses an 18.i-megapixel CMOS sensor, an "upgrade" over the sixteen.ane-megapixel sensor constitute in its predecessor. The sensor is a small i/2.iii-inch type bit, which is what makes such a long zoom possible at this size and pricepoint. It's arguable whether the FZ80'southward new prototype sensor and new Venus Engine processor consequence in a significant improvement in image quality over the FZ70, as both cameras produce fair images at base ISO and marginal images at higher ISOs, yet the FZ80 does seem to resolve a scrap more detail than its predecessor.

100% crop from an in-photographic camera JPEG image. Although fine detail is pretty good for its class, you can see a lot of artifacts in this epitome. 169.6mm (947mm equivalent) , f/5.ix, 1/125s, ISO 100. Click for full-size image.

The Panasonic FZ80 employs aggressive sharpening in-photographic camera as well every bit area-specific noise reduction, resulting in images with a lot of artifacts and odd, blocky visible dissonance, even at ISO fourscore. When you start to increase the ISO, the state of affairs of course deteriorates.

High ISO

Panasonic FZ80 ISO Comparison 100% crops from highest-quality JPEG images with default settings (Click for full-size images)
ISO 80 Full Scene
ISO eighty	ISO 100
ISO 200	ISO 400
ISO 800	ISO 1600
ISO 3200

As nosotros can see, between the artifacts in the starting time epitome in this section and the ISO table above, the Panasonic FZ80 offers mediocre image quality beyond the board, though that's not a surprise given its tiny sensor. On the plus side, colors are good and the images look mostly okay when not viewed at full size. I think that the FZ80 is more than capable of producing decent images for sharing on the web or printing at small-scale sizes (4 x 6, mayhap 8 x 10).

Congenital-in lens

The 20-1200mm equivalent lens offers a very wide and versatile 60x zoom and performs okay at certain focal lengths, but struggles at the farthermost ends of the lens, especially the telephoto finish where a superzoom is almost likely to be used.

three.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/ii.eight, 1/1600s, ISO 80. 100% acme right corner crop from JPEG epitome shot at default settings. Click for full-size paradigm.

The lens has a lot of baloney at the wide end and shows considerable purple fringing and bug with chromatic aberration, even when viewing JPEG images, which include a lot of in-camera corrections.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.9, 1/100s, ISO 80. 100% ingather from center of JPEG image shot at default settings. Click for full-size image.

With that said, the lens allows you lot to do something very few lenses allow: optically zoom to 60x starting from a very wide 20mm equivalent. In the serial of images below, ranging from 20mm to 1200mm with a 600mm shot in between, you tin can run across how powerful and versatile the FZ80'south lens is.

three.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/2.8, 1/1600s, ISO 80. Click for full-size image.

107.vi (600mm equivalent), f/v.6, 1/125s, ISO fourscore. Click for full-size image.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/five.nine, 1/100s, ISO lxxx. Click for full-size prototype.

The lens suffers from distortion, a lack of overall sharpness and various optical problems, such as imperial fringing at the extreme ends of the lens, simply it provides the opportunity to capture images very few other cameras can. We take to temper our expectations for what the photographic camera will be capable of every bit far equally image quality is concerned.

Metering

I found the Panasonic FZ80 to provide generally good metering performance. It offers Intelligent Multiple, Center-Weighted and Spot metering, with the lattermost option existence linked to the autofocus signal when using a compatible autofocus mode (such as i-point). The camera had a slight trend to underexpose, simply that's non unusual and it was by and large consequent, meaning that I could easily utilise exposure compensation to correct most bug. White residuum metering was skilful besides.

148.1mm (827mm equivalent), f/v.vi, 1/500s, ISO 320, +0.67 exposure compensation. This prototype has been cropped. Click for original image.

Autofocus

With its contrast-detect autofocus organisation, the Lumix FZ80 requires decent calorie-free for good autofocus operation. At wide focal lengths, it can be quite fast, especially in good lite. However, when you take full advantage of its 60x zoom lens, the FZ80 will struggle in low calorie-free atmospheric condition.

Autofocus area modes include face/centre detection, tracking, 49-area, custom multi, one-area and pinpoint. All of them work as expected, although one-area doesn't seem to offer as precise autofocus performance every bit information technology has on other Panasonic cameras I've used. By this, I hateful that the camera can struggle to focus on very fine details within the focus area fifty-fifty when they make full a practiced portion of the focus expanse.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.nine, 1/125s, ISO 125. 100% crop from a JPEG paradigm straight from the camera. Autofocus is sometimes very authentic, but capturing sharp images at 1200mm proved difficult in limited light. Click for full-size prototype.

Regarding continuous autofocus functioning, the camera did okay in good calorie-free, only its subject tracking mode struggled. When zoomed in a lot, continuous autofocus functioning became slower, but this isn't surprising because overall autofocus performance slows considerably at longer focal lengths. The maximum aperture falls to f/5.ix at telephoto focal lengths, rendering information technology quite slow to focus in low light. With that said, focus is quite authentic when it tin lock on and the camera doesn't hunt ofttimes once focus has been acquired, even if acquisition was itself tedious. Sometimes dissimilarity-detect autofocus systems can hunt, especially when ready to continuous autofocus, merely the FZ80 performed fairly well in this regard.

Overall, autofocus operation was impressive at the wider end of the lens and less impressive near and at 1200mm equivalent focal lengths and continuous autofocus performance was decent.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.9, 1/400s, ISO 500. Click for full-size paradigm.

Performance

The Panasonic FZ80 may shoot at the same speed as its predecessor, x frames per second, but its operation is considerably more impressive than the FZ70's specifications were. (The FZ70'due south top burst speed was specified at ix fps only it managed x fps in our lab, nevertheless the buffer depth was limited to merely 3 JPEG frames.) The FZ80 can shoot at ten fps with autofocus locked for upwardly to xiii RAW+JPEG frames and effectually 100 JPEG frames. The RAW+JPEG buffer depth is still a piffling disappointing and somewhat slow to articulate at a fleck less than 20 seconds, but the JPEG buffer depth is much more impressive and clears very quickly, taking less than a couple of seconds. I tested the FZ80's speed with a SanDisk Ultra SD card with 30MB/s read speed and 10MB/southward write speed, and so faster cards should perform better.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.ix, 1/160s, ISO 80. Click for total-size image.

If you want to shoot with continuous autofocus, the photographic camera tops out at 6 fps, which is all the same pretty proficient. Unfortunately continuous autofocus operation itself isn't particularly impressive and I wasn't able to capture very many in-focus shots using AF-C, peculiarly at long focal lengths.

Video: 4K UHD video for $400?

Ane of the more impressive aspects of the FZ80 is its suite of video features. Despite its depression cost, the FZ80 not just records 4K UHD video, but it has a wide range of video features. The Panasonic FZ80 records 4K UHD video at upward to 30 frames per second with a 100Mbps bitrate. 4K UHD video tin can be recorded continuously for up to fifteen minutes. In add-on to 4K UHD video recording, the FZ80 tin record Full HD video at upward to 60 fps and can record 720p video at 120 fps and 640 10 480 video at 240 fps. In addition to the regular full Hard disk drive video recording, the FZ80 offers 4K Live Cropping, which allows yous to movement a Full Hard disk drive ingather effectually a 4K UHD frame.

Speaking of the frame, 4K video is not recorded with the full width of the prototype sensor, simply rather is cropped in. The focal length range when recording 4K UHD video is 28-1680mm equivalent. While it would be benign at times to be able to record 4K UHD video using the full width of the epitome sensor, it is probably better for a superzoom camera to gain extra reach instead.

4K UHD video frame at max wide bending

Full HD video frame at max wide angle

The Lumix FZ80 offers piece of cake access to a variety of shooting modes for recording video, including total auto, aperture priority, shutter speed priority and manual mode, which is more than I tin say for other cameras I've used which toll a lot more than. Further, despite their being a dedicated movie tape button, yous tin start and terminate video recording using the shutter release when in the dedicated movie recording mode.

On the less positive side of things, the FZ80 does not include a headphone or mic input. Farther, when the built-in lens zooms, there is some shake and noise, making it less than platonic for recording while zooming.

Overall, 4K UHD video quality is decent at lower ISOs, but non great when the ISO increases. In the video sample below, recorded at ISO 1600, you tin can see noise and the overall sharpness of the video is fair.

Keeping in mind that the Panasonic FZ80 is a $400 superzoom camera, the fact that information technology records 4K UHD video should be considered impressive. And in the right conditions, the camera tin exercise a pretty good job, merely its small sensor also ways that the FZ80 is limited in low light and it lacks some features that videographers demand. But hey, you can record 4K UHD at a nearly one,700mm equivalent focal length that looks pretty good at base ISO.

4K Photo

In add-on to 4K video modes, the Panasonic FZ80 also offers a wide array of 4K Photo modes. There are standard 4K Photo burst modes, which allow you to capture 8-megapixel JPEG images at up to 30 frames per second, but in that location are likewise modes for mail service-focus and focus stacking. With post-focus, the camera captures images at different focal distances, allowing you to either select a single frame with a particular focus bespeak or have the camera automatically stack all of the images together (or a user-selected range of images) and have an enhanced depth of field. The modes work well for what they are.

Shooting modes

The Lumix FZ80 includes additional distinct shooting modes, such as a panorama way and various creative filters. The panorama manner did a practiced chore, but the concluding panoramic image is a JPEG file and its height is limited to 1,920 pixels. Yous can of course practise meliorate stitching your own panoramas on a computer, only if that isn't in the cards, the FZ80 can exercise okay on its own. Similarly, the built-in Creative Filters work okay, but don't await particularly good to my eye. If you want to add some creative flair to your photos, I recommend doing it in your photo editor of choice. For photographers who prefer to import their photos from their camera and stay hands-off, then the Artistic Filters mode works well.

3.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/4.0, 1/1600s, ISO 80. Click for full-size image.

3.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/four.0, 1/800s, ISO 80. Star filter. Click for full-size image.

Wireless Shooting

Using the Panasonic Image App, you can transfer and remotely capture images. The connection process is very simple on iOS. You turn the camera's Wi-Fi on in the carte du jour and then locate the FZ80 connectedness in the iOS Wi-Fi settings. Later connecting, you open the Panasonic Image App and you lot are all prepare. The Panasonic FZ80 does not include NFC, so the process should be similar on Android devices, which can sometimes leverage NFC communications for more user-friendly pairing.

Screenshots from the Panasonic Image App iOS application.

The existent-time feed to my smartphone was okay, although in that location was a bit of lag and the framerate is not bully, especially when the camera is in a depression-calorie-free environment. You tin can command a large corporeality of settings remotely, including discontinuity, shutter speed, metering mode, white balance, ISO, AE lock, Photo Mode, filters, quality, focus way and much more. It is a very impressive awarding. Panasonic'southward remote command functionality is the best I've used and that trend continues with the FZ80.

In the field: Photographing birds

The Panasonic FZ80 would brand an excellent, affordable photographic camera for the hobbyist birder. Its continuous autofocus performance is not up to the task of staying locked on pocket-sized, fast-moving birds, but the FZ80 nonetheless works well for its price.

While non capable of capturing high-quality images in full general, especially at the 1,200mm-equivalent focal length, the FZ80 is more than capable of taking decent images for apply on the spider web or making pocket-sized prints, provided you are shooting at low ISOs.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/vii.1, 1/500s, ISO fourscore. This image has been modified. Click for original prototype.

What helps set the FZ80 autonomously from some other superzoom cameras is Panasonic'due south very good 4K video and 4K Photo features, which can also work very well for wildlife photography. The 4K Photo Burst fashion, for case, captures decent 8-megapixel JPEG images at upwardly to 30 frames per second while also shooting at a longer equivalent focal length (1680mm) due to its crop factor, which is beneficial for trying to photo afar birds.

174.8mm (976mm equivalent), f/five.six, 1/320s, ISO eighty. Click for full-size image.

Panasonic FZ80 Field Examination Function Summary

A great value and a capable superzoom camera

What I like:

• 60x broad-angle zoom lens offers a lot of versatility
• 10 frames per second shooting
• RAW support
• 4K Photo modes are fun and useful
• 4K video recording in a photographic camera at this price indicate is impressive

What I dislike:

• Prototype quality, even at low ISOs, is fair to adept, but not great
• While the lens offers a lot of accomplish, its optical quality degrades considerably at the extreme ends of the lens

9.5mm (53mm equivalent), f/7.1, 1/500s, ISO 80. Click for total-size image.

Because the cost of the Panasonic FZ80 -- a very reasonable $400 -- its versatility and breadth of features is impressive. The image quality, as we have seen throughout this Field Test, leaves something to be desired when compared to cameras with larger sensors. With that said, the FZ80 does a lot for the money. If you lot're looking for a superzoom camera that offers impressive blindside for the cadet, the Panasonic FZ80 is certainly worth consideration.

3.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/3.5, one/500s, ISO 80. Click for full-size image.

Panasonic FZ80 Review -- Overview

by Jeremy Gray
Posted: 01/04/2017

In the superzoom market, the Panasonic FZ70 was something of a landmark camera when it was announced in the summertime of 2013. It offered what was at the time a benchmark 60x optical zoom lens -- xx-1,200mm in a 35mm equivalence -- and a maximum aperture range of f/2.8-v.9. Information technology feels similar the FZ70 has been long overdue for a revision, specially in the face of Panasonic'southward massive push toward 4K video and 4K Photo features across its entire line of cameras. Well, the revision is here in the course of the new Panasonic FZ80, and it looks to have been worth the expect! Let's look at what this new superzoom bridge camera has to offering.

Like appearance, but much different from its predecessor

Y'all'll be forgiven for existence unable to tell the FZ80 autonomously from its predecessor in terms of appearance, the ii cameras wait very similar in both styling and size. The FZ80 has dimensions of v.13 x 3.71 10 4.69 inches (130.2 x 94.3 ten 119.2 millimeters) and weighs 1.36 pounds (616 grams) with battery and SD card.

While the Lumix FZ70 has been on the marketplace for well over three years, Panasonic has opted to utilize the aforementioned lens with the FZ80. There isn't necessarily annihilation wrong with that though equally the powerful 60x optic offers a very wide 20mm equivalent to a super long 1,200mm equivalent range. The lens has xiv elements in 12 groups, including 6 aspherical elements, ix aspherical surfaces and three ED elements. The lens has optical image stabilization built-in equally well in the class of Panasonic's Power OIS engineering science.

Like its predecessor, the Panasonic FZ80 has a 3-inch display and a 0.2-inch electronic viewfinder. However, both displays have improved functionality. The rear LCD is now a touchscreen display with ane,040K-dots compared to the not-touch display of the FZ70, which had only 460K dots. The EVF, while the same size and offering the same 0.46x magnification (35mm equivalent), at present has many more than resolution too, 1,170K-dots equivalent versus 202K. Surrounding the display are the same organisation of buttons and controls, including navigation buttons and a rear dial.

The top of the camera has a mode dial, ability switch, moving picture tape button and a pair of function buttons in improver to the shutter release with its surrounding zoom lever switch. On its mode punch, the FZ80 offers a broad array of shooting modes, including Intelligent Automobile, P, A, Southward, M, Creative Video, C (Custom), Panorama Shot, Scene Guide and Creative Control, which offers an array of 22 different filters. There is also a hot shoe on tiptop of the congenital-in wink. Speaking of the flash, it has a range of 0.three to 14.ane meters at wide focal lengths and 1.v to 6.ane meters at the telephoto end of the lens using Car ISO.

Panasonic FZ80 shooting features: New sensor, 4K and more

New xviii.1-megapixel High Sensitivity MOS sensor

Starting our expect at the inside of the camera, the changes since the Panasonic FZ70 become more apparent. The FZ80's imaging performance relies on a new 18.ane-megapixel 1/2.3-inch High Sensitivity MOS sensor, offer about two more megapixels than the sensor plant in the FZ70. Also, the ISO range is now expanded from 100-6400 to 80-6400. In improver to the new prototype sensor, in that location is a new version of the Venus Engine imaging processor found in the FZ80 also, which we promise will lead to impressive image quality across the camera's ISO range.

Autofocus and Metering: Faster, more sophisticated autofocus

The Lumix FZ80 includes a new, faster autofocus system than its predecessor. The Lightspeed AF-branded autofocus system now includes Depth from Defocus (DFD) engineering science, a characteristic not plant in the FZ70. In add-on to what nosotros expect will be faster, more consequent autofocus speed, there are now 49 autofocus areas compared to 23. Autofocus modes include face/eye detection, tracking, 49-area, custom multi, i-area and pinpoint. The addition of the touchscreen display also ways that the new superzoom camera includes total area touch on autofocus. Minimum focus distance is 0.39 inches (one centimeter) in the macro focus mode and xi.8 inches (30 centimeters) during normal autofocus.

To expand on the AF functioning, DFD applied science basically works by the camera calculating the distance from the lens to the subject by comparing ii images with dissimilar sharpness levels with a 240 frames per 2d signal exchange speed. The end consequence is that the FZ80 can achieve autofocus speeds every bit fast as 0.09 second (using AFS at the wide cease of the lens), according to Panasonic.

Metering modes include intelligent multiple, center-weighted and spot with exposure bounty available for upwardly to +/- 5EV when shooting stills and +/- 3EV when recording video.

Continuous Shooting: Much faster shutter, slightly faster continuous shooting

While continuous shooting performance isn't especially improved compared to its predecessor, the FZ80 does proceeds an additional frame per second of continuous shooting speed, bringing the total to 10 fps when using AFS (6 fps when using continuous autofocus). Even so, other aspects of its performance see more than drastic changes. The FZ80 now includes a 4K Photo mode, which lets you shoot 8-megapixel JPEG images at upwards to 30 fps in multiple burst modes. Further, the FZ80 has an electronic shutter fashion in add-on to its mechanical shutter, allowing for shutter speeds equally fast as one/16,000s when shooting stills. The overall shutter speed range is 4s to 1/2,000s when using the mechanical shutter and 1s to ane/16,000s when using the electronic shutter, although a special Artistic Nightscape mode is available which offers upwardly to a 60-2nd exposure.

We will need to await total lab testing of the FZ80 to see how its performance fares, merely on newspaper, this does announced to exist a speedy superzoom camera.

4K UHD video recording and 4K Photo burst modes highlight strong 4K features

4K fans take annotation, the Panasonic FZ80 has a wide array of appealing 4K features, including 4K UHD video recording at upward to thirty fps with a 100 Mbps bitrate. The photographic camera can continuously record 4K UHD video for upward to xv minutes, which while not matching the video specs of its large brother, the FZ2500, is still very impressive. The camera also offers Full HD video recording at upwards to 60fps and two high speed video modes: 1280 x 720 video at 120 fps and 640 x 480 video at 240 fps. The FZ80 includes a 4K Live Cropping mode as well, which lets y'all motility a Full Hard disk frame around a 4K frame while recording video providing a simulated camera slider motility or a "Ken Burns"-like event all in-camera.

4K Photo, wherein the photographic camera records 8-megapixel JPEG images, comes with a variety of modes beyond the aforementioned burst modes. Y'all can also capture a series of images with unlike focus points, assuasive yous to select the focus point later capture (Post Focus). Alternatively, yous tin accept the photographic camera stack all of those images captured at different focal distances and create a last epitome with an increased depth of field (Focus Stacking).

Connectivity, media and battery

The Panasonic FZ80 includes built-in Wi-Fi, although NFC connectivity is absent. It includes Micro HDMI (Blazon D) and USB two.0 (Micro B) ports, a stereo microphone and a mono speaker. The camera records files to SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards and has UHS-I, but not UHS-Ii, support. Notably, unlike its predecessor which included about 200MB of built-in memory, the FZ80 lacks on board storage, just that is in line with current cameras on the market place.

Regarding power, the Lumix FZ80 uses a seven.2v 895mAh lithium-ion battery that offers a 330-shot battery life when using the LCD monitor and 240 shots when using the electronic viewfinder. This is a adequately large reduction in bombardment life compared to the FZ70 with the same battery, as it was CIPA-rated at 400 shots with the LCD, then information technology appears a spare battery might be in club for FZ80 users.

Improvements over its predecessor

• Higher-resolution rear display, which now has touchscreen functionality
• 18.1-megapixel sensor compared to the xvi.1-megapixel sensor found in the FZ70
• New Venus Engine prototype processing
• Expanded ISO range to 80-6400 from 100-6400
• The add-on of an electronic shutter with shutter speeds faster than one/2,000s
• Improved autofocus with Depth from Defocus engineering and more AF points
• Faster continuous shooting speeds
• 4K video and 4K Photo features
• High speed video recording options
• Built-in Wi-Fi
• USB battery charging

Pricing and availability

This superzoom photographic camera will exist available in March for just under US$400. Information technology has been a long wait for this FZ70 successor, but information technology appears to have been well worth it equally the FZ80 is poised to offer a lot of performance for the toll.

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