Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3

April 6th, 2007

DPReview has a review of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 and writes, “the image quality has not come on in leaps and bounds; resolution is a bit higher (for those of you that shoot res charts all day), but the output with the default settings looks softer and flatter, and really needs a little post-processing to get the best results.

Whether this is a good thing or not depends on your workflow; I’d much rather do a little PP than be stuck with the camera’s idea of pleasing output. The new image parameters give you a little more control in-camera, and to my eyes the ‘vivid’ setting looks a lot like the output from the TZ1. Otherwise the main issues we worried about with the TZ1 are still here, and they’re all related to noise, or more importantly the suppression of it using Panasonic’s unmistakable Venus III chroma smearing. … It’s well priced and easy to use, and - as long as you accept that there are always going to be compromises with a camera like this - capable of producing excellent results for normal print sizes or viewing at normal magnifications on-screen.”

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