Product ReviewsPanasonic LUMIX FZ300 12.1MP Bridge Camera - Black

Purchase this camera for a frustrating experience and very poor quality images.

Although the camera is well built the menu and operation is difficult, confusing, outdated and clumsy.
Image quality so far ranges from poor and well below sub par, even in raw.

This 12mp camera even with it's Leica lens deliver poor results and setting the menu quickly to capture the moment leaves you frustrated and leads to missing the shot.
Only running in fully auto mode is relevant to quickly capturing shots, but even in low iso mode the photos are shockingly grainy, hazy, soft, have erratic focus, and are of very poor quality.

The auto focus constantly despite all attempts to correct it leaves the desirable areas of your photo constantly out of focus, the focusing system is a total nightmare.

As a photographer with over 50 years of experience I would have to classify this camera as the worst I have ever used, outdated in the extreme, producing very poor quality images, incredibly expensive, not suitable to quality photography and an extremely bad choice to be avoided in the extreme.
I have already after extensive testing in varying conditions (over 400 photos) designated it to my last choice, just before relegating it to the dustbin of history.

All in all a poor quality piece of junk that is outdated and not worth even considering purchasing, I have never experienced a worse camera product. It works, only very poorly, but that is not all that can be said for it, as the menu is a complete nightmare (disaster) and the most frustrating experience you will ever have with a camera of any brand.

Best to leave it in full view in a insured car and hope someone steals it.
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Brilliant camera!

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