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Panasonic FZ80 Review -- At present 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 kickoff shipping to the general public until mid-March, we got our hands on an early production model and later posting First Shots, nosotros immediately sent it out to photographer and writer Jeremy Gray in Maine to cheque it out. To see how this affordable superzoom fared in the existent world, see Jeremy'due south 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 hither.

Panasonic FZ80 Field Test

Versatile superzoom includes many features, some compromises

past Jeremy Gray | Posted 03/01/2017

148.1mm (827mm equivalent), f/v.6, 1/400s, ISO 320. This image has been cropped. Click for original prototype.

Introduction

Back in 2013, Panasonic launched the FZ70. The all-in-one superzoom camera offered a and so unprecedented 60x optical zoom. Since and so, many new superzooms accept entered the market place, but Panasonic hasn't had any respond, at to the lowest degree 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 it a new higher-resolution image sensor, new processor and a bevy of new features, including 4K UHD video recording. Let'southward see how the Panasonic FZ80 fares in the field.

Fundamental Features and Info

• 18.1-megapixel 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor
• 60x zoom lens (xx-1200mm equivalent f/two.8-5.9)
• iii-inch touchscreen LCD display
• 10 frames per 2nd continuous shooting
• RAW format support
• 4K UHD video recording
• 4K Photo modes
• Built-in Wi-Fi
• US$400 street cost

three.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/5.half-dozen, ane/500s, ISO lxxx. Click for full-size epitome.

FZ80 has a skilful touchscreen interface

The Panasonic FZ80 shares similar styling with its predecessor, the FZ70. It is an SLR-styled superzoom photographic camera that offers a massive 60x optical zoom range, meaning that it is not a compact photographic camera. The FZ80'due south dimensions are nigh 5.1 x iii.7 x 4.7 inches (130 x 94 10 119 millimeters) and it weighs 21.seven ounces (616 grams) with card and battery, which is only a bit shorter and a bit heavier than its predecessor.

Priced at $400, which is a great bargain for a 4K-capable superzoom camera, information technology is difficult 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, equally would be expected, feels like much more of an inexpensive camera and the FZ80 certainly feels less robust in utilise. The prototype stabilization and the autofocus system both work well simply I did notice some racket from both systems when in use.

The Panasonic FZ80'due south controls are quite practiced 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, but information technology's pressable which allows information technology to quickly change functions. For example in manual exposure mode, you can switch betwixt controlling the shutter speed and the aperture by simply clicking the punch. You tin besides press it switch to/from exposure compensation in aperture- or shutter-priority mode, etc.

The built-in electronic viewfinder is a 0.two-inch color LCD with one,166k dots and approximately 100% coverage. The 35mm equivalent magnification of the EVF is but 0.46x -- still useful, just it's small, as is par for the class for this class of photographic camera. There's no built-in eye sensor, but rather switching betwixt the EVF and the rear display requires you to press a button to the correct of the EVF; which is troublesome when wanting to shoot through the EVF and review images on the rear display. A minor issue I take with the EVF is that the diopter adjustment dial to the correct of the eyecup is easy to suit accidentally. I occasionally had to tweak the diopter back to my desired setting after carrying the camera around my neck because my jacket would move the dial.

The rear display on the photographic camera is good and I frequently found myself opting to use it in lieu of the EVF in many situations. The three-inch touchscreen LCD has 1,040,000 dots and is a stock-still display. A tilting display would be welcome, peculiarly considering the display tin be hard to run across in bright weather condition.

The lack of quality of employ features such equally 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 similar a $400 camera, but rather like a quite capable enthusiast-oriented superzoom. The amount of physical controls is excellent and the touchscreen functionality works well to brand the photographic camera more outgoing for newer photographers while also speeding up the process of changing settings in the field for more advanced users.

Panasonic FZ80 Shooting Features

Prototype Quality and High ISO Performance

The FZ80 uses an xviii.i-megapixel CMOS sensor, an "upgrade" over the 16.1-megapixel sensor establish in its predecessor. The sensor is a small ane/2.three-inch type chip, which is what makes such a long zoom possible at this size and pricepoint. It's arguable whether the FZ80'southward new image sensor and new Venus Engine processor result in a significant improvement in image quality over the FZ70, as both cameras produce off-white images at base ISO and marginal images at higher ISOs, however the FZ80 does seem to resolve a flake more detail than its predecessor.

100% crop from an in-camera JPEG image. Although fine particular is pretty proficient for its class, you can see a lot of artifacts in this epitome. 169.6mm (947mm equivalent) , f/5.9, 1/125s, ISO 100. Click for full-size prototype.

The Panasonic FZ80 employs aggressive sharpening in-photographic camera likewise as area-specific dissonance reduction, resulting in images with a lot of artifacts and odd, blocky visible noise, even at ISO 80. When yous starting time to increase the ISO, the situation of course deteriorates.

Loftier ISO

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

Equally we tin meet, betwixt the artifacts in the starting time paradigm in this section and the ISO table above, the Panasonic FZ80 offers mediocre image quality across the board, though that's not a surprise given its tiny sensor. On the plus side, colors are expert and the images look by and large okay when not viewed at full size. I call back that the FZ80 is more capable of producing decent images for sharing on the spider web or printing at small sizes (iv 10 6, maybe viii x x).

Built-in lens

The twenty-1200mm equivalent lens offers a very wide and versatile 60x zoom and performs okay at sure focal lengths, but struggles at the extreme ends of the lens, especially the telephoto cease where a superzoom is most likely to be used.

3.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/two.8, i/1600s, ISO lxxx. 100% top right corner crop from JPEG image shot at default settings. Click for total-size prototype.

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

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.ix, 1/100s, ISO 80. 100% crop from center of JPEG image shot at default settings. Click for full-size prototype.

With that said, the lens allows y'all to practice something very few lenses allow: optically zoom to 60x starting from a very wide 20mm equivalent. In the series of images below, ranging from 20mm to 1200mm with a 600mm shot in betwixt, yous tin can come across how powerful and versatile the FZ80'south lens is.

iii.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/2.8, ane/1600s, ISO 80. Click for total-size epitome.

107.6 (600mm equivalent), f/5.half-dozen, 1/125s, ISO lxxx. Click for full-size paradigm.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.9, i/100s, ISO 80. Click for total-size prototype.

The lens suffers from distortion, a lack of overall sharpness and various optical issues, such as purple fringing at the extreme ends of the lens, only it provides the opportunity to capture images very few other cameras tin. Nosotros have to temper our expectations for what the camera will be capable of as far as paradigm quality is concerned.

Metering

I plant the Panasonic FZ80 to provide generally good metering performance. It offers Intelligent Multiple, Middle-Weighted and Spot metering, with the lattermost pick existence linked to the autofocus point when using a compatible autofocus mode (such as ane-point). The photographic camera had a slight tendency to underexpose, only that'southward non unusual and it was generally consequent, meaning that I could easily employ exposure compensation to right most problems. White remainder metering was good every bit well.

148.1mm (827mm equivalent), f/5.six, 1/500s, ISO 320, +0.67 exposure compensation. This image has been cropped. Click for original paradigm.

Autofocus

With its contrast-discover autofocus arrangement, the Lumix FZ80 requires decent light for adept autofocus performance. At wide focal lengths, it can be quite fast, especially in good light. However, when you lot take full advantage of its 60x zoom lens, the FZ80 will struggle in depression lite conditions.

Autofocus expanse modes include face up/eye detection, tracking, 49-surface area, custom multi, 1-area and pinpoint. All of them piece of work as expected, although 1-expanse doesn't seem to offer as precise autofocus functioning as it has on other Panasonic cameras I've used. By this, I mean that the photographic camera tin struggle to focus on very fine details inside the focus area fifty-fifty when they make full a good portion of the focus area.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.9, ane/125s, ISO 125. 100% ingather from a JPEG image directly from the photographic camera. Autofocus is sometimes very accurate, but capturing sharp images at 1200mm proved difficult in limited lite. Click for total-size epitome.

Regarding continuous autofocus performance, the camera did okay in good light, but its subject tracking manner 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 discontinuity falls to f/5.9 at telephoto focal lengths, rendering information technology quite slow to focus in low light. With that said, focus is quite accurate when it tin lock on and the camera doesn't hunt oftentimes once focus has been acquired, even if acquisition was itself slow. Sometimes contrast-discover autofocus systems can hunt, especially when set to continuous autofocus, but the FZ80 performed adequately well in this regard.

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

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.ix, ane/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, just its performance is considerably more impressive than the FZ70'due south specifications were. (The FZ70's tiptop outburst speed was specified at 9 fps but information technology managed 10 fps in our lab, nonetheless the buffer depth was limited to but 3 JPEG frames.) The FZ80 can shoot at 10 fps with autofocus locked for upwards to 13 RAW+JPEG frames and around 100 JPEG frames. The RAW+JPEG buffer depth is even so a little disappointing and somewhat slow to clear at a bit less than twenty seconds, merely the JPEG buffer depth is much more than impressive and clears very quickly, taking less than a couple of seconds. I tested the FZ80's speed with a SanDisk Ultra SD carte du jour with 30MB/s read speed and 10MB/due south write speed, and so faster cards should perform better.

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/5.9, 1/160s, ISO 80. Click for full-size image.

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

Video: 4K UHD video for $400?

I of the more impressive aspects of the FZ80 is its suite of video features. Despite its low cost, the FZ80 not simply 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 can be recorded continuously for upwards to 15 minutes. In improver to 4K UHD video recording, the FZ80 tin can tape Total HD video at up to 60 fps and tin can record 720p video at 120 fps and 640 10 480 video at 240 fps. In add-on to the regular full Hard disk drive video recording, the FZ80 offers 4K Live Cropping, which allows you to move a Total HD crop around a 4K UHD frame.

Speaking of the frame, 4K video is not recorded with the full width of the image sensor, merely rather is cropped in. The focal length range when recording 4K UHD video is 28-1680mm equivalent. While it would exist beneficial at times to be able to record 4K UHD video using the full width of the image sensor, information technology is probably meliorate for a superzoom camera to gain extra attain instead.

4K UHD video frame at max wide angle

Full Hard disk video frame at max wide angle

The Lumix FZ80 offers easy admission to a variety of shooting modes for recording video, including full auto, discontinuity priority, shutter speed priority and transmission mode, which is more than I can say for other cameras I've used which toll a lot more than. Farther, despite their existence a dedicated movie tape push button, yous can start and stop video recording using the shutter release when in the defended movie recording mode.

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

Overall, 4K UHD video quality is decent at lower ISOs, just non great when the ISO increases. In the video sample beneath, recorded at ISO 1600, y'all tin encounter 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 it records 4K UHD video should exist considered impressive. And in the right weather, the camera tin can exercise a pretty good job, but its pocket-sized sensor also means that the FZ80 is limited in low light and information technology lacks some features that videographers need. Merely hey, you lot can record 4K UHD at a nearly i,700mm equivalent focal length that looks pretty skillful at base of operations ISO.

4K Photo

In add-on to 4K video modes, the Panasonic FZ80 besides offers a wide array of 4K Photo modes. There are standard 4K Photo burst modes, which allow you to capture viii-megapixel JPEG images at up to 30 frames per 2nd, but there are also modes for mail-focus and focus stacking. With post-focus, the camera captures images at different focal distances, allowing you lot to either select a unmarried frame with a detail focus betoken or take the photographic 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 diverse artistic filters. The panorama manner did a good task, but the final panoramic image is a JPEG file and its top is express to ane,920 pixels. You can of course do better stitching your own panoramas on a estimator, but if that isn't in the cards, the FZ80 can practise okay on its own. Similarly, the built-in Creative Filters piece of work okay, simply don't expect particularly adept to my eye. If you want to add some artistic flair to your photos, I recommend doing it in your photograph editor of choice. For photographers who prefer to import their photos from their camera and stay easily-off, so the Creative Filters mode works well.

three.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/four.0, 1/1600s, ISO 80. Click for total-size paradigm.

3.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/4.0, 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 connectedness process is very simple on iOS. Yous turn the camera's Wi-Fi on in the carte du jour and then locate the FZ80 connexion in the iOS Wi-Fi settings. After connecting, y'all open up the Panasonic Image App and you are all fix. The Panasonic FZ80 does non include NFC, then the procedure should be similar on Android devices, which tin sometimes leverage NFC communications for more convenient pairing.

Screenshots from the Panasonic Paradigm App iOS application.

The real-time feed to my smartphone was okay, although in that location was a bit of lag and the framerate is non neat, especially when the camera is in a low-light environment. You lot can control a big amount of settings remotely, including discontinuity, shutter speed, metering mode, white remainder, ISO, AE lock, Photo Style, filters, quality, focus mode and much more. It is a very impressive application. Panasonic's remote command functionality is the all-time I've used and that trend continues with the FZ80.

In the field: Photographing birds

The Panasonic FZ80 would brand an excellent, affordable camera for the hobbyist birder. Its continuous autofocus operation is not up to the task of staying locked on modest, fast-moving birds, only the FZ80 nonetheless works well for its toll.

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

215mm (1200mm equivalent), f/7.i, i/500s, ISO eighty. This image has been modified. Click for original image.

What helps set the FZ80 apart from some other superzoom cameras is Panasonic's very proficient 4K video and 4K Photograph features, which can also work very well for wild fauna photography. The 4K Photo Burst mode, for case, captures decent 8-megapixel JPEG images at up to 30 frames per second while also shooting at a longer equivalent focal length (1680mm) due to its crop cistron, which is benign for trying to photograph distant birds.

174.8mm (976mm equivalent), f/five.half dozen, 1/320s, ISO 80. Click for total-size image.

Panasonic FZ80 Field Test Office Summary

A great value and a capable superzoom camera

What I similar:

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

What I dislike:

• Epitome quality, even at low ISOs, is fair to good, simply not great
• While the lens offers a lot of achieve, its optical quality degrades considerably at the extreme ends of the lens

9.5mm (53mm equivalent), f/seven.1, one/500s, ISO eighty. Click for full-size prototype.

Because the cost of the Panasonic FZ80 -- a very reasonable $400 -- its versatility and latitude of features is impressive. The epitome 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 yous're looking for a superzoom photographic camera that offers impressive bang for the cadet, the Panasonic FZ80 is certainly worth consideration.

iii.6mm (20mm equivalent), f/3.v, 1/500s, ISO fourscore. 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 photographic camera when it was announced in the summer of 2013. Information technology offered what was at the time a benchmark 60x optical zoom lens -- twenty-1,200mm in a 35mm equivalence -- and a maximum aperture range of f/two.8-5.9. It feels like the FZ70 has been long overdue for a revision, especially in the face up 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 form of the new Panasonic FZ80, and information technology looks to accept been worth the wait! Allow's wait at what this new superzoom span camera has to offer.

Like appearance, but much different from its predecessor

You'll be forgiven for being unable to tell the FZ80 autonomously from its predecessor in terms of appearance, the ii cameras expect very similar in both styling and size. The FZ80 has dimensions of 5.thirteen x 3.71 10 4.69 inches (130.2 x 94.three x 119.2 millimeters) and weighs 1.36 pounds (616 grams) with bombardment and SD carte du jour.

While the Lumix FZ70 has been on the market for well over iii years, Panasonic has opted to utilize the same lens with the FZ80. There isn't necessarily anything incorrect with that though as the powerful 60x optic offers a very wide 20mm equivalent to a super long one,200mm equivalent range. The lens has 14 elements in 12 groups, including half-dozen aspherical elements, nine aspherical surfaces and three ED elements. The lens has optical epitome stabilization congenital-in as well in the grade 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. Nevertheless, both displays take improved functionality. The rear LCD is now a touchscreen brandish with 1,040K-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), now has many more resolution too, 1,170K-dots equivalent versus 202K. Surrounding the display are the same arrangement of buttons and controls, including navigation buttons and a rear dial.

The top of the camera has a manner punch, power switch, movie record push and a pair of part buttons in add-on to the shutter release with its surrounding zoom lever switch. On its mode dial, the FZ80 offers a wide array of shooting modes, including Intelligent Auto, P, A, S, M, Creative Video, C (Custom), Panorama Shot, Scene Guide and Creative Control, which offers an array of 22 dissimilar filters. There is also a hot shoe on superlative of the built-in wink. Speaking of the flash, it has a range of 0.iii to fourteen.1 meters at wide focal lengths and 1.5 to six.1 meters at the telephoto terminate of the lens using Auto ISO.

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

New 18.1-megapixel High Sensitivity MOS sensor

Starting our look at the inside of the camera, the changes since the Panasonic FZ70 get more than apparent. The FZ80'southward imaging functioning relies on a new 18.one-megapixel i/ii.iii-inch Loftier Sensitivity MOS sensor, offer virtually ii 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, at that place is a new version of the Venus Engine imaging processor found in the FZ80 as well, which nosotros hope will lead to impressive image quality beyond the photographic camera'due south 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, a characteristic not found in the FZ70. In addition to what nosotros expect will be faster, more consequent autofocus speed, there are now 49 autofocus areas compared to 23. Autofocus modes include face up/eye detection, tracking, 49-area, custom multi, i-area and pinpoint. The addition of the touchscreen display likewise ways that the new superzoom camera includes full area affect autofocus. Minimum focus altitude is 0.39 inches (1 centimeter) in the macro focus mode and eleven.8 inches (thirty centimeters) during normal autofocus.

To expand on the AF performance, DFD technology basically works by the photographic camera computing the distance from the lens to the field of study by comparing two images with different sharpness levels with a 240 frames per 2d signal exchange speed. The finish result is that the FZ80 can reach autofocus speeds as fast every bit 0.09 2nd (using AFS at the wide finish of the lens), according to Panasonic.

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

Continuous Shooting: Much faster shutter, slightly faster continuous shooting

While continuous shooting operation isn't particularly improved compared to its predecessor, the FZ80 does gain an additional frame per second of continuous shooting speed, bringing the full to 10 fps when using AFS (6 fps when using continuous autofocus). However, other aspects of its performance see more drastic changes. The FZ80 now includes a 4K Photograph mode, which lets you shoot 8-megapixel JPEG images at upwardly to thirty fps in multiple outburst modes. Farther, the FZ80 has an electronic shutter mode in addition to its mechanical shutter, assuasive for shutter speeds as fast as i/16,000s when shooting stills. The overall shutter speed range is 4s to 1/2,000s when using the mechanical shutter and 1s to 1/16,000s when using the electronic shutter, although a special Artistic Nightscape way is available which offers up to a 60-second exposure.

We volition demand to wait full lab testing of the FZ80 to see how its functioning fares, but on paper, this does appear to be a speedy superzoom camera.

4K UHD video recording and 4K Photo outburst modes highlight potent 4K features

4K fans take note, the Panasonic FZ80 has a wide assortment of highly-seasoned 4K features, including 4K UHD video recording at up to 30 fps with a 100 Mbps bitrate. The camera tin continuously tape 4K UHD video for up to 15 minutes, which while not matching the video specs of its big brother, the FZ2500, is however very impressive. The camera besides offers Full Hd video recording at upwards to 60fps and ii loftier speed video modes: 1280 x 720 video at 120 fps and 640 10 480 video at 240 fps. The FZ80 includes a 4K Live Cropping mode as well, which lets y'all move a Total HD frame effectually a 4K frame while recording video providing a simulated camera slider motion or a "Ken Burns"-similar event all in-photographic camera.

4K Photo, wherein the 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, allowing you to select the focus indicate after capture (Post Focus). Alternatively, you can have the camera stack all of those images captured at different focal distances and create a final epitome with an increased depth of field (Focus Stacking).

Connectivity, media and battery

The Panasonic FZ80 includes born Wi-Fi, although NFC connectivity is absent-minded. It includes Micro HDMI (Blazon D) and USB ii.0 (Micro B) ports, a stereo microphone and a mono speaker. The camera records files to SD/SDHC/SDXC retentiveness cards and has UHS-I, simply not UHS-2, back up. Notably, different its predecessor which included about 200MB of built-in memory, the FZ80 lacks on lath storage, but that is in line with current cameras on the market.

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

Improvements over its predecessor

• Higher-resolution rear display, which now has touchscreen functionality
• xviii.i-megapixel sensor compared to the 16.1-megapixel sensor plant in the FZ70
• New Venus Engine paradigm processing
• Expanded ISO range to 80-6400 from 100-6400
• The addition of an electronic shutter with shutter speeds faster than 1/2,000s
• Improved autofocus with Depth from Defocus engineering science and more AF points
• Faster continuous shooting speeds
• 4K video and 4K Photograph features
• High speed video recording options
• Built-in Wi-Fi
• USB battery charging

Pricing and availability

This superzoom camera will exist bachelor in March for only under Usa$400. It has been a long wait for this FZ70 successor, only it appears to have been well worth information technology as the FZ80 is poised to offer a lot of functioning for the toll.

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