Panasonis FZ3

[gfletcher]

Hi Guys

I may have the opportunity to buy this camera.

Would anyone know how good this camera would be as a point and shoot camera ?

thanks

Graham

[gfletcher]

Sorry forgot to mention that the price is £25

[Doc]

I used to have the Panasonic FZ10 and it was a great camera. It has 12x zoom and took good photo's.

Panasonic make good camera's and for that price I would say it's a good buy.

[greenkat]

I have both the FZ20 & FZ50, both are good cameras, halfway bewteen a compact & dslr, though Panasonics do give noisy images compared to most.

For 25 squid its a bargain though.

If you go here : Camera Database and Museum at PBase.com

you can see pictures taken with the camera

Great site for checking out pics from different cameras

[oceanheadted]

Graham,

I have a FZ18. It's a good camera, takes a good point an shoot picture, and the tele lens functionality on these cameras is phenonemal for the price. It's got a leica lens which is always a good staring point. The big drawback you will notice from the DLSR you're used to is the viewfinder shooting a moving target. The viewfinder goes black for quite a long time (about 0.5-1 seconds) while the camera is recording the image. The auto focus is also a lot slower. This can be very frustrating if you are trying to capture a sports event (having said that I have managed to get some quite good pics using mine).

If it looked reasonably clean at 25 quid I'd buy it like a shot,

cheers

Alan

[gfletcher]

Thanks Alan

Unfortunately i missed the opportunity to buy

Graham