Anyone have any pics of birds done with these super zooms. I would like to see the quality of the pics they can take. Can you include any relevant details, such as "Had to get really close to get this one." etc. Thanks in advance!
Plenty of discussion about the Panasonic FZ50 on this forum, including some excellent bird images:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1033
I've got a Panasonic FZ7 (12x zoom, increasing to 16x if you cut the image down to 4 Megapixels...)
I find that it is very handy for flight shots, small birds darting around in trees, pics from the car etc - in short, situations where digi-scoping is a bit of a challenge. I don't have the full DSLR set-up.
The images are not bad - tend to be a bit noisy, but usually removable with NeatImage - but the biggest advantage is that I can get some sort of image where none would otherwise be possible....
Have a look in my gallery and you'll see a few other examples....This one was taken from approx 5 metres and tightly cropped.
Ruby.