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Other features
- Cosmetic Mode: takes portraits with the user’s bestloved skin tone (soft skin, natural skin, summer look) and may add a degree of transparency of skin detail (low, standard, high), making it possible to take portraits with dissimilar skin tones, for example, look more sun-tanned.
- Happy Mode: option in iA that optimizes color, saturation and luminance to make both photos and movies more bright and true to the color of the scene you memorized.
- Battery Life: the high performance Venus Engine HD II is also more energy effective equated with the traditionalisti Venus Engine HD, extending the battery life up to 360 shots (CIPA) on a single charge.
What’s in the Box
Battery Charger, Battery Pack, Battery Case, Stylus Pen, AV cable, USB Cable,Hand Strap, CD-ROM
Most helpful customer reviews
51 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
Decent but overpriced
By EmbeddedFlyer
This is my 3rd Panasonic pocket sized Lumix. The first was 5 megapixels and had a 3X zoom. It still works great but I wanted a longer zoom and more resolution so I bought the DMC-FS15 about a year ago. The FS15 has 12 megapixels, a 5X zoom, but no touch screen.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Wide and bright
By Transcendant
I got this camera within a week of it’s release and just before my trip to Alaska. It performed beautifully in most light conditions. There is a learning curve in mastering all of the options. The anti-shake, intelligent auto and touch screen worked well. The AVCHD is a pain as this proprietary software prevents you from viewing files directly from camera to most wide screens. The video record button is also hard to find so this causes shaking when stopping a video. My wife brought along our old DMC FX9 so we had a basis of comparison of picture quality. The FX75 produced far superior color and clarity. Very nice compact camera with a bright lens, very competitively priced.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Major Exposure Issues mar an otherwise fabulous camera
By Erich Hartmann
I’ve waited a couple years now for this camera to come out, because I’ve loved the Lumix series from the get-go. I think, in general, the Lumix line is underrated, and a darn good value (especially compared to Canon). For the FX70/75 specifically, I like the idea of having such a wide, bright lens (Leica, no less) even though I think they should include more manual features in their ultra-compacts… I have a DSLR, so a micro-snapper, albeit totally “automatic”, is a good thing to have.
The FX75 a small camera, with a sturdy build, and it’s “modes” are nice and varied, which offsets the lack of any manual control a bit. It takes darn good “flash” pictures (for weddings, parties, etc), with a better-than-normal color/flash/exposure balance.
The image quality is very, very good, too. As long as you’re under IS0-800, you’re going to get a low-noise, crisp image with great, accurate color. However, the built-in “sharpening” tends to look a bit wonky on small details like leaves, or other natural elements. But with more man-made details (architecture, bricks, cars) that algorithm actually helps the image. So, it’s a bit of a mixed bag. In fact, I almost wish they had an option to turn this “feature” off, allowing the user to apply their own sharpening in post via Lightroom or Aperture.
But no. The FX70/75 insists on doing EVERYTHING for you.
The touch screen is a welcome feature too (even if you don’t use it to “take” pictures”), and the visibility of the LCD in daylight really isn’t that big of a deal.
Because of the handy Touch Screen, there are very few physical buttons on the FX75. One of them is the “MODE” button wich, when pressed, you get 4 on-screen choices: “Normal Picture” (a poor man’s “manual” mode); “Intelligent Auto” (which actually does a pretty good job of guessing your needs); “Scene Mode” (which takes you to a larger menu: sports, landscape, candlelight, etc, etc); and… “Cosmetic Mode” (which allows you to adjust face tones).
Wait. What? Really guys? You have 4 options and one of them is a “Cosmetic Mode”? Is this supposed to be “The Fashion Camera” or something? At the very least the user should be able to assign that 4th choice, either with a commonly-used “Scene Mode” or a user-created variation for an extra “Normal Picture” mode. But if that’s an option, I haven’t found it. Because the manual is a bit intimidating, and a PDF, no less. Nevertheless dedicating such a prominent UI element to a “Cosmetic Mode” seems, well, strange.
That said, it’s not that big of a deal.
What IS a big deal is that this camera, as noted in all the reviews, has major highlight and shadow problems, especially when shooting in the “normal picture” mode. If you’re outside, on a sunny-ish day, casually shooting pics, you are going to have a ton of snaps that are either blown-out, or way under-exposed. And, more often than not, you’ll have both in one picture. Literally white-white highlights AND black-black shadows. It’s really sad, actually.
Yes: all cameras have their pluses and minuses. But this little camera has SO much going for it that these very basic exposure issues are really a let-down. Frankly, this is an issue that feels very “2001″ in terms of technical performance. It has all these wonderfully modern bells and whistles, but when you check out your pictures of that family picnic you find yourself shaking your head and asking “…really?”.
The FX75 does provide an “intelligent exposure” option, which helps a tiny, tiny bit. But if you have that turned “on”, then it overrides your ISO preferences, even in “normal picture” mode. So all of a sudden you may get stuck with an ISO-1600 picture (which is extremely noisy) taken in the day time. Which is crazy, and a real shame.
Overall, it’s almost as if they paid so much attention to the glitter, that they forgot the basics: ie., capturing a properly-exposed image.
They could’ve easily included HDR or a RAW option so at least you’d have some room to play on the back end. But, sadly, no. Chances are you’re stuck with a badly exposed JPG.
Unfortunately, I don’t know if something like a “firmware upgrade” can fix this problem. But I certainly hope so. Because if they can find a way to fix this, they’ll have one of, if not THE best camera in this class. If not, I’ll probably have to try and sell this (quick, before word gets out!), and buy another mini-snapper. And that sucks.
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