Experimenting with my new Panasonic DMC-FZ50.

I have finally started to upload photos taken with my new camera in September. You can see them in my Athens and Hydra albums.

It is a great camera, with an incredible amount of features and controls; I must confess I haven't managed to use most of the available features.

The greatest advantage for me has been the amazing lens, allowing 12x zoom (in fact, when shooting at 5M pixels, it can go up to 17x, almost 500mm!). Other useful features I have used are RAW image format, and auto-bracketing.

Although there have been reports that it shoots very noisy pictures at higher ISO settings, the one occasion I used it at above ISO200, the results were quite reasonable.

The one thing I have not yet managed to master too well is shooting macros, but I suspect it is more my shortcoming than the camera's...

I have shot many more pictures since then; I'll be posting in the near feature, and you can let me know what you think :-).