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what should i do with this camera?

ok i got this camera for my birthday, i want to take pictures with it.

right now its still new in box and i could easy sell it and buy something else, is it a half decent camera for what its worth or should i sell it and buy something else, possibly a digital SLR. its a Lumix DMC-FZ18K btw.
>> Charlie. !3JP.Fc5CnE
I love compacts that are made to look like DSLR's kind of removes the point of being a compact.
>> Anonymous
ok another question.

whats the difference between this and a SLR?

i found you can leave the shutter open and anything that moves goes all blurry like on an SLR so whats the difference?
>> Anonymous
>>257879

You cant change the lenses and the lens that is in it sucks
>> Charlie. !3JP.Fc5CnE
>>257879

Cnet Reviews says this:

Product summary

The good: Wide-angle, long zoom lens; nice set of shooting features.

The bad: Camera's JPEG processing choices can produce suboptimal results; no zoom in movie capture; sluggish LCD/EVF update.

The bottom line: A decent but not great camera, the megazoom Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 still manages to outdo its few competitors.
also apparently it is a DSLR, so I lied before.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>257879
>whats the difference between this and a SLR?
1. Much smaller sensor. Which has some consequences:
1a. Much worse noise at a given ISO. ISO100 on this camera will likely look like ISO400 on the cheapest of SLRs.
1b. A lot less control over depth of field
2. Fixed lens. So you can't get a lens with a larger aperture than the one you've got there, or a wider angle, or a longer telephoto, etc. Larger aperture lenses will, again, help you get blur-free shots in lower light conditions.
3. Speed. Cameras like this are slow to focus and slow to take the shot after they've focused. With an SLR, it's press-buttan-receive-pictar. With this, there will be a couple extra steps in there along the lines of "wait a perceptible amount of time for the camera to figure out you want it to do something and then do it". Startup time is usually an issue, too, especially on cameras with retracting lenses like this one appears to be--modern SLRs go from "off" to "picture has been taken" in the time it takes you to hit the shutter button, and you don't need to wait for it to start up before you can see what you're about to shoot.

On the other hand, an SLR isn't going to have nearly that zoom range unless you buy a bunch of lenses (++$), especially if you want those lenses to have image stabilization (unless you get a Sony or some other SLR with in-body stabilization). Personally I find that most interesting images happen more at the wide end than the superzomfgtelephoto end, so losing my zoom range when I switched from a camera like this to an SLR wasn't a problem for me. Your mileage may vary.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>257893
>also apparently it is a DSLR, so I lied before.
No it's not, and no you didn't.
>> Anonymous
>>257901

op:
ok im quite pleased with that, i don't really care for alot of features even though 18x zoom is very nice. so im pretty sure im better off with this than an dslr.

thanks /p/
bai.
>> Charlie. !3JP.Fc5CnE
>>257902

Yeah I realised after I posted that. I'm a retard, I apologise.