Quality Photo
How do superzoom cameras compare to DSLRs in terms of photo quality?
I was thinking of buying a Panasonic superzoom camera - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-FZ38EB-K-Digital-Camera/dp/B002KHMJ78/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1256395236&sr=1-16 - but I was wondering what the photo quality would be like compared to DSLR cameras.
They are in a different league altogether. The sensor in superzooms is tiny compared to ANY DSLR, so they just can't produce the same quality. They are handy to have sometimes, but for image quality - well, they are handy to have sometimes.
You will find many comparisons of sensor size in this group: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/tags/sensor View the pairs in the original size and compare.
Here are a couple that might save you the time. Bear in mind that my point and shoot examples are from a "better" P&S camera with a larger sensor - almost twice as big as the one used in the superzooms. Just scroll up and down and compare, as I have lined up the images to make this easy to do.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/2372413161/sizes/o/
This pair is side-by-side:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/476181751/sizes/o/
Look at the stats here:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=nikon_d40%2Cpanasonic_dmcfz35&show=all
(Note that the FZ38 is called the FZ35 in the USA.) Look at sensor size and (wow!) pixel density. These are about the same size and about the same cost. You'd need to get an additional lens to have the same zoom coverage for the DSLR (a 70-300 VR would come close in tele range to the Pano), so you'd have another $5-600 invested, but image quality would be much, much better.
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