Panasonic Lumix DMC FX 150K Review

Introduction:
DMC FX 150K is smart and highly compact camera with metal body. The 14.7 megapixel camera 1/1.72 CCD with wide angle of 28 mm. The bright DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens helps the camera to achieve its excellent capabilities such as 7X zoom.

The back-side of the camera features a 2.7” screen that works well, both in dark as well as in sun. Panasonic has consistently tried to offer the maximum manual controls in the DMC series. The new FX 150K is not an exception to this rule. It offers you with large number of intelligent features such as the intelligent auto mode, high sensitivity and so on.

Details:
The Lumix FX 150K is one of the moderately priced top-end models by Panasonic. It is easily fits in your palms and you pockets too! It uses 14.7 Megapixel sensor with 28 mm wide Leica lens that produces zooming as large as 3.6X. The 2.7” LCD screen at the back side of FX 150K works well.

The Lumix FX 150K is differentiated from other models mostly due to its excellent manual controls. For instance, the manual exposure mode offers the user freedom of choosing the shutter speed. This results in making artistic images out of the general sceneries. The multi-exposure function lets the user superimpose up to three consecutive images, which assists the user in creating trick photographs of simple environments. Also the manual bracketing function in FX 150K assists in adjusting typical exposure and adds color temperature for capturing pictures in a particular tone.

Apart from manual controls, Lumix FX 150K offers some automated operations such as the Intelligent Auto (iA) mode, which help users in saving time and in avoiding mistakes. The iA mode provides user with automated setting adjustments as per demands of shooting environments. Another notable feature under the iA mode is the AF tracking. It enables the camera to lock focus on a moving object, while the image is being captured. It also assists in the face detection accuracy of the camera.

Bottom Line:
The new Panasonic Lumix DMC FX150K is one of the smartly built cameras in this category. Its design is made very sturdy and compact at the same time. It’s true that the market if flooding with ultra-slim cameras in this category, however it is the richness in manual features, which highlights the new FX 150K in the crowd. How are we going to describe Lumix FX 150K in one line? High resolution shooting with a Leica lens accompanied by a number of other intelligent features amd all this at an affordable price of $399. It is surely a good deal.

The overall rating for the camera is 4.5/5.