Customer Reviews
Fully loaded camera, but pictures are not that good 
2008-08-13
The camera is small, lightweight and fully packed with manual controls and the possibility of attaching additional lenses. Battery lasts forever, I think I took 250 to 300 pictures (20% with flash) without having to recharge. The pictures come out extremely sharp, color is good not so saturated, but be adivsed that noise is a seroius issue. You dont really want to take picutres with this camera above ISO 100. At ISO 400 pit gets very grainy. Remember to leave the "Noise reduction" setting at "High" in the options menu, it helps a bit. Overall is a four star, would buy it again. I would now go with the FZ18K, which is packed with 18x zoom, sports 8 megapixel and has face detection.
panasonic lumix 
2008-08-11
Beautiful pictures from this camera. Perfect weight and nice feel in hands. I have highly reccomended this camera to family and friends.
Still love it after a year and a half 2008-07-07
I'm not an expert photographer, but in my experience using the Panasonic DMC-FZ7, I've found that:
- it takes clear, crisp photos in daylight or using the flash.
- in dim light, the photos have a lot of noise.
- the optical zoom lens is great.
- the macro feature allows incredibly detailed close-ups.
- it's best to use a tripod if you're not using the flash (to reduce blurriness).
I've owned the FZ7 for about a year and half and I still love it and have had no problems with it thus far. My best use of the camera was during a camping trip to the mountains where I got some really good photos that I'm still showing off to people.
The optical zoom feature is INCREDIBLE! I was standing quite a distance from a tree that had a huge hornet (or wasp?) nest in it and I zoomed in as close as possible and the photo was crystal clear.
Two of my absolute favorite photos taken with this camera were a super close-up (using the macro feature) of my cat's face and the photo described above of the hornet nest (using the 12x optical zoom). Awesome.
good camera great pictures 2008-02-20
This is a fine camera, light, small, great zoom and stabilization. Battery life is also good.
The negatives would be the manual focus is a bit tricky to master and the small size leaves your pinky finger with no room. The other negative was the high ISO setting is a bit obtuse as you have to go to scene mode to engage it.
Lens caps seem to get lost as well.
The light weight makes it a bit unstable at long zooms. Michelle Ress USA
Pretty good for the price 
2008-02-11
I bought this camera to replace my canon POS, because it has a lot of pro features and was - well, cheap. And you get what you pay for: the lens and the zoom are great (Leica), the features overflowing; but *alas* even at ISO 80 it's a really noisy image. Also, it tends to shoot too bright, so I have to underexpose by just a little. And no RAW, so no pro images.
A great trainer camera for a newbie exploring to see if a pro-cam is worthwhile, and I don't know if the Fz8 or 50 has a better sensor chip, but this one has kind of a crappy sensor chip, definite pixellation at full-sized without any tweaks. I spend a lot of time in Photoshop these days, and will likely replace it with a Canon instead of another Lumix.
For the dough, a top notch P & S. 2008-02-03
I purchased this camera several months ago and have been very pleased with it. Once you take the time to learn all the functions, it will produce some fine images. Just don't expect auto or easy mode to do the work for you. I never use auto or any scene settings. I basically use it like a 35mm, for full control.
Regarding noise, I barely notice it at ISO 200. What little is there, I can basically eliminate it with Elements by going to filter/noise/despeckle. I've had some 8 X 10 enlargements printed and they have turned out fabulous, with no noticeable noise at ISO 200.
I've since added an Olympus Tcon-17 conversion lens, which basically stays on the camera at all times. This gives me a reach of 20.4 optical equivalent to 734mm. It's a great combo. [...].
I have since upgraded to Canon DSLR but will still hang onto the Panasonic as a reliable backup.
Panasonic DMC-FZ7 6MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black) 
2008-01-20
I returned the camera. Pictures in daylight are great but night pictures tend to be blurry.
Shucks! 2008-01-10
Breaking and entering. That cuts short a number of whatnots. However, were we to examine the thieves' taste - they went for the camera. Chose it over a laptop.
Can't say I blame them.
Not The Best Choice for Me 2007-12-23
I really wanted this camera to be easy and take that perfect picture. It does not!! Maybe if I spent more time with it, but who has days of time just for this unless it's a true hobby. I wish I bought the Canon equivlent.
Well done camera 2007-12-07
It's very good cam. Panasonic DMC-FZ7 6MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)
