A Photographer can Dream, Right? Better than Sliced Bread it it all Pans out... ** UPDATE** Sliced Bread Indeed!!
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When I got this adapter, I thought I was going to have to return it, because I could NOT get any of my Canon EF OR EF-S lenses to mount to it.. They would stop at under a quarter turn and NEVER get to "click" status.. after 3 days of this, I found an old "throwaway" plastic mount 50mm 1.8 and "let her rip" (since they both cost the same $$ I figured I had nothing to lose.. It was this or $600.00 for Metabones, so why not..) I did this all OFF CAMERA.. the Panny G7's mount is delicate.. heck, the whole camera is delicate compared to my 7D (brick). after VERY hard twisting I got the lens to "click" in.  It took VERY hard twisting to un-mount also.. but it FINALLY worked!  Got a little easier with every twist.. but it still MUST be done OFF CAMERA because it's VERY STIFF.  Now over that hurdle, the aperture blades are top-notch, and I still haven't noted any blue dots.. I have yet to really examine photos for fine focus detail and sharpness, but a a glance, it seems to be ok; but jury is still out on that.. could be a deal breaker if I cannot get consistently sharp focus..  what IS good about this unit it the aperture BOOST you get, which turns mediacre lenses into fast lenses, and fast lenses into AMAZING lenses.. as long as focus can stay sharp, my 30mm f1.4 Sigma will become UN-GODLY fast!  and still maintain around 37-39mm focal length shooting 4K on the G7!  How's that for a sub- $1200.00 4K end-to-end movie solution!  I now just literally leave the adapter on the back of this this lens as it's so very hard to pull off and put on others.. I thought is could just sit on the Panny G7 body, both protecting the sensor, and providing easy on-off rotation of my deep Canon lens arsenal.. but alas, that's just not meant to be.  I can't have it all.. So far so good tho.. I'll update when I get around to some good sharpness comparisons..
***** UPDATE  *****
I have now field tested this product in the studio and upon looking looking at finished photos, it works charming.. for the price. I tested with my new G7 and the tried and true 70-200 2.8L  Optics were on point.. just can't use the O.I.S. like with Metabones.. but clean image at 16X magnification.. about as clean as the lens native with OIS running..  It comes to life with my sigma 30mm 1.4 though.. VERY nice images that held up under scrutiny.. then I tried a few 4k samples.. again.. VERY nice.. You just CANNOT come anywhere close to this 4k footage and lens speed (aperture)for less than 3X the price of this this package.. which is still less than the going rate for a GH4 body alone..  I just might get a couple more and just leave them on the lenses.. Sliced Bread Indeed..
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I purchased one for myself.  Then ordered one through Amazon for my daughter.  Great price for a really compact camera, right?  Wrong.  Both cameras we used often and ended up with a "photo" of a crack across the view screen.  Neither can be used.  And as far as picture quality - I got better pics from a less expensive, though a bit larger Kodak camera.
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I just talked to Customer Support, again.  They do help and seem to know what they are doing.

  The first frame locked up three times while doing the slide slow and three times while downloading photos.  Had to unplug each time.

The second one would not load any photos, customer support managed to fix that.  Then the second one locked up once while going through the menu, I rebooted.  After I managed to work through all this I discovered that I can only down load less than 20 photos. I have a point and shot 15mg pix camera.  Twenty photos filled up the internal memory.  So I am headed back to look at the Kodak without any memory.  It is not worth the added $$$$ just to have memory for 20 photos.

I called Customer support back and they confirmed that is correct.  I noted they show on the box holds hundreds of photos, he said that depends on the file size.  So this one is going back, a shame because I like everything except the storage capacity.  The photos that come with the frame take up half the memory and I can find no way to delete them.

After the preloaded photos and the 20 I added, the memory was at 1mb.  I can buy a 2GB flash drive for $8 and use this as my photo file.

Just my opinion.
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As all information ever divulged by Mr. Thorpe, it is done so directly and in detail. Quite frankly, Panasonic should probably hire him to write their manuals. It isn't so much that the manual is so bad, it's just that Mr. Thorpe's is better, and has a lot more input from an experienced photographer. It let me hit the ground running upon receiving the camera.
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As many others have noted, the images that this application produces are useless. The very first attempt came up as corrupted. I'm not very happy with Acronis either, but at least you can open an image and retrieve a file. Still on the hunt for a consistently workable piece of imaging software that executes properly every time. I would think that the underpinnings of "Windows" are fairly predictable at this point - someone should be able to get it right!
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I'd decided on a point and shoot, no more lens changing and lugging lenses around! Great success with a Lumix fz 50 convinced me point and shoot was for me .  I explored on-line , just to see what was new & great.  I liked the idea of the larger telephoto. and tried the P-610 out. I love it, Pictures are great, easy to use except, It is a bit small for my hands.  After getting used to it I found it a simple likable camera that I've grown to really like!  (I still use the fz 50, on occasion because I prefer its manual zoom!)
I just take pictures and this camera works for me!
UPDATE- While I still love love this little camera, it has developed a problem holding a charge and is headed for the repair shop at nikon.  The problem started when I used a  after-market battery designed for this camera.

I am having trouble believing Amazon, is indeed selling junk, but this failure seems to bare this out.  May 14 of this ear to August 14Th, 3months and Amazon will (per their policy) will not exchange this camera.  They sold the camera, they sold me the batteries and 3 months later it is my problem--go figure how that makes the customer right? COME ON AMAZON STOP SELLING CRAP!

AMAZON WHERE'S THE EASY BUTTON TO TALK TO CUSTOMER SERVIC, TALK ABOUT NOT WANTING TO STAND BEHIND YOUR SALES.

Update 8/22/15--Thank You Amazon for replacing this camera or offer refund.  I will update this review, later on!

discussion comments: Dale, thanks for your comments, I agree and indeed, I did suspect the batteries
initially. I conducted tests and finally purchased new batteries. All ran down in the camera. Now I have the new camera and so far it is fine! Was the camera bad, batteries or perhaps charger? I do know buying something that fails so quickly is not acceptable! I am not a test/repair center.  I am interested in keeping potential customers informed.  Was this a fluke, or common incident?--that's the purpose of reviews. My thoughts are this must be a rare occurrence, hence the exchange, rather than refund.
Update 8/9/15
Thanks to Amazon, I received a new Nikon Coolpix p610.  At first no problems, unfortunately it was a very short time frame, before the 2nd camera failed! Battery death averaged 28 photo's before it failed!
after looking up this camera, I find that it is a failure mode that others are experiencing! (check DP Review, problems with the Nikon Coolpix P610 &P900). The camera takes excellent telephoto pictures and is a pleasure to use!  My question for Nikon is what's the real deal on this camera? Are you going to correct the problem or keep dumping them on loyal customers?

THANK YOU AMAZON FOR ACCEPTING THE RETURN!
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My one over riding fear has been that I would have to use customer service.  So rarely do you read about a quick and satisfactory resolution for a service related issue.  We shall see how Amazon, LLC & Breadman do.

Our Breadman Bread Maker BL2000B was delivered with two sets of the same paddles for the smaller 1 pound containers.  The unit should have been delivered with one set for the 2.5 pound container, but these were missing.  I will contact Amazon, LLC & Breadman and then write here how this is resolved.

UPDATE 10 June 2011:  Breadman did not have the proper paddles in stock so we had to reorder from Amazon.  This went fast although shipping alone had to make this a profitless transaction for Amazon.

So far we have used the bread maker a number of times.  It works properly about 70% of the time.  Quite often it leaves the dough unmixed and you have wasted your ingredients.  I would not have expected a bread maker that costs as much as this one to be this inconsistent.  We have had much less costly machines that worked fine every time.

I would not recommend this product.

UPDATE 14 June 2011:  It works about 60% of the time... yet another loaf of dense, heavy, doughy...  This was using the long cycle.

UPDATE 26 June 2012: I have used my Breadman daily since its purchase a year ago. It has NEVER made the 100% Whole Wheat bread recipe successfully (tried more than 5 times, each time I ended up throwing the ingredients out. It was too heavy to mix & baked bricks; once I woke to a terrible burning smell because the ingredients did not mix properly, had come out of the pan & into the machine, & almost caught fire!)

The non stick finish has worn off in places, due to the little round rubber pieces in the two paddles (which are to prevent the paddles from rubbing on the non-stick surface as they turn) disappearing into our loaves of bread.

I have tried numerous recipes in the machine's recipe book, all 2 or 2-1/2 lb. recipes. The only ones that have made consistently good bread are the Multi-Seeded White Bread & Basic White Bread. It makes pizza dough very well, as well as gluten free-pizza dough. The gluten-free recipes I have tried have done well but not consistently.

When I use the rapid cycle, the bread never rises as big as it does in the regular cycle & is much denser.

I always add ingredients in the order listed & always warm my ingredients to the stated temperatures before adding (something I never had to do with my previous machine, an Oster. We got rid of it only because the non-stick surface kept coming off the paddle & after replacing the paddles numerous times, we thought we'd try a different brand.).

I still will not/can not recommend this machine.
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A little bit of background as usual... (and you can skip it if not interested in side stories)
I have always been a gadgeteer. Nowadays that means GPS-talking iPhones that predict the weather but 12 years or so ago that meant a REALLY expensive digital camera (a big 'ole Cybershot). This was my first foray into digital and re-ignited my love for photography. I had been meddling for years with my Yashica and a friends darkroom but got tired of the many hrs of labor before I could view my often crappy results. Anyways, since then I have, IMNSHO, become an OK-amateur photographer.
What that title means is that I really try hard to get the composition to please the eye, lighting to be accurate and photos to be tack-sharp. I even bought half-decent 'glass' on here (hah, using 'glass' to refer to lenses shows my deep penetration into the inner circles of photo-magic).

Alas, to my deep regret my nemesis openly criticized the pictures I took of her. My wife found that I over-exposed her weak spots, that my tack-sharp pictures created wrinkles that were not there before (also refer to my review of eDerm wrinkle cream) and that, in general, I should not spend 2000$ on a camera for 1$ quality pictures. She then continued to tell others that I have more than 37,000 pictures on my Terastation server, however, 36 thousand of those are out of focus an impossible to determine of what's on the actual photo.

Braveheart
Enough self-pity, I said. As a true Scotsman would do (I am from Surinam but we are similar in bravery)I spent many-a-dollar on Amazon to buy myself into the deep secrets of better photography. If not auto-didactic then just shell out and do it the Pavlov-way.  This review is only one of many (some not so good books) photography books to follow.
This book, however, captured me: the writing style is 'personable' (you really feel the writer shares his views and knowledge with you) and very efficient. I.e the writer uses picture examples and describes the 'methods' applied and their effect on the result without using too many unnecessary words. These methods are not only tricks of posing and composition and lighting, what I'd call technical skills, but he also puts emphasis on how to make your (glamour) model (=husbandbeater wife) feel comfortable and confident in her poses and willingness to pose. If you've not had training then you WILL learn new things. I thought I was a natural too, remember, but my results are dramatically different / better.

The reveal
I first started to mimic the photos in the book so that I could find 'belief' in my own skills. Even without all the expensive strobes and backgrounds (he uses his surroundings well) I was able to get great result. The ultimate judge being the subject herself. The photos came out semi-pro looking. Now I have forayed into finding my own inner artist and I have noticed that wifey is looking forward to the weekend photo shoot. She's even working with me to come up with ideas and now wants her own camera!
As far as being overly positive: I am grateful that my 23$ is really priceless since I have learned something from this book and that cannot be expressed in $$$.

I'd spend it again!!!

PS: Thank you to my fellow Amazon reviewers. I can always rely on good value by following the star ratings on here. You make this a great way to shop.
PPS: the photos in this book are sexy but classy. This is not beyond art and just much more appealing and classy. It deserves glamour in the title!
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Updated Feedback - I've had the camera for over a year now when the lens auto focus mechanism quit working. It's won't close and just sticks out. Out of warranty and cost prohibitive to repair. Currently a non working piece of junk. If I can find another one on ebay for cheap I might try to repair it myself. My advice is don't waste your money on this camera -- the lens mechanical parts are not metal (plastic/nylon?) anyway it appears to be very cheaply made.

Original Feedback - I ordered on Fri and received on Sat, played with it all weekend. This is an awesome camera! I shoot primarily manual and I found the features to be very robust. Everything from low-light macro, to night shots, to portraits, you name it ... and it does it. Although the manual and menu functions are well written and very intuitive, this is not a camera for the average consumer. It helps to know about aperture priority, iso settings, shutter speeds, white balance, etc. That's exactly the reason I bought it ... as a semi-pro, I want a point and shoot that I can tweek the exposure settings. Bottom line, this IS my travel camera, I love it!!!

If you upgrade the firmware use this link. The one on Panasonic's website returns a ZS10_V12.bin that is the wrong size ... this link returns a self-extracting exe that creates a bin that is the correct size. This firmware update deletes your CS1, CS2, and CS2 settings and your MS1 and MS2 settings ... as well as all other settings, so be sure to write them down before doing the update (that is, if you want to keep them)

v1.2 firmware update [...]
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Having owned only a Fujifilm Finepix A200 before this and being all of sixteen years old, I consider myself to be an amateur in the professional camera field; however, I have had this camera for almost four months now, and I have noticed some shortcomings.
For months, I had been eyeing the Canon S2 IS. I had done extensive online research, and that seemed to be the best camera in the field: it was definitely an improvement from my old camera (which was a PHD camera: Push Here, Dummy), yet at the same time was not so complicated that I, the amateur, would not know what to do with it. I waited with bated breath on Christmas Eve, hoping for the camera of my dreams and fearing that it would prove too expensive for my parents to afford (as it turned out, my father had rallied all twenty or so of my aunts, uncles and such and had collected a contribution from each of them; that camera was the reason I got no other gifts that year). When the time came, I reverently opened an appropriately-shaped box with my name on it, hoping against hope...and all of my expectations came crashing out the sky, trailing smoke, as I saw something that, while still a camera, was definitely not the Canon S2 IS of my dreams. The first thought that ran through my disappointed brain was, "Oh, no! Dad's gone and gotten some crappy Japanese look-alike!"
The Dimage Z5, obviously, is neither crappy nor a look-alike; it does, however, lack a fold-out screen, which is not a great loss, but there have been numerous times when that nifty little feature would have come in handy. It works beautifully in bright sunlight, and the colors are perfect; however, it has trouble focusing when I zoom all the way out to 12x, requiring me to set up my tripod for want of a steady hand, and when I use the zoom under dimly-lit conditions it cannot focus at all. Having had no experience with other brands and types, I cannot say whether this tendency is a shortcoming or not, but I suspect that it is.
One of the reviews I have read mentioned a lack of explanation concerning technical jargon. I find that I must agree on this point ("What on earth does 'telephoto' mean??"). While paging through the included instruction manual, I was frequently forced to ask my father what some term or other meant and which feature did what. But this lack is not serious.
I must admit that I love almost everything about this camera. I am planning to be a professional photographer someday, and this camera seems a good place to start. I am disappointed, however, that there seems to be no fisheye lens available for this model. And, relevant or not, I feel that I have to include the following:
My father paid almost $500 for the Dimage Z5 a little over four months ago.
Currently, the Dimage Z6, a newer model, is going for about $250, and the Z5 is not even available straight from Amazon.

Go get yourself a Z6.
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I have grown up LOVING photography.  HOwever, always thought if you couldn't take a good photo you had no business messing in photoshop.  I have gotten to the stage, I'm ready to take it to the next level.  I thought I would try this version, based on ratings and reviews, and see what I thought.  It has been simifrustrating trying to figure out the storing to editing and retrieving.... I have a lot left to figure out, but hopefully can get it pretty soon.  I don't know whether to encourage or discourage you from it.  I know that if you haven't ever dealt in photoshop just know you are going to have a lot to figure out, but it could be a good thing,
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Product could have been a nice upgrade for landscape photography...
The tolerances of the slots are a joke!
Unusable on my D810.

Well, at least the lint-free cloth makes the deal. lol
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The Photos this thing are 30 MP? NO? not even close. every photo is only about 10mb and when you transfer it to the phone it goes to 6mb and is VERY blury not clear and bad looking, Photos look like your using an old camera. Sending it back. Maybe it's broke? I did my best to edit them and even sent them through HDR. NO good still bad.
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I have to honest. I'm disappointed. The bread slicer is beautiful, but I find it almost impossible not to slice off slivers of the wood while slicing the bread. I think the wood is maybe too soft.

////UPDATE 11/30/16//////// I have an amazing update. Much to my shock and surprise, the seller (Patrick, Founder, Floorsweeper, and all-around lovely chap) sent me an email after having read my review. He advised me that he was sending me a new and improved hardwood edition of the bread slicer, and wanted my opinion.
Well, this one is a definite winner! Beautiful, too. The hardwood made all the difference for me. The finish is smoother, too. I am no longer having any issues whatsoever. It works beautifully. I am putting my official stamp of approval on it.
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Good, but not great. All photo enthusiasts know that Canon has a reputation for coming up short on the software / UI side but it's a wash considering their strength in lens and picture quality. Meaning, where other companies may have eye-catching features, Canon has always traditionally been focused on delivering on quality of picture.

However, with this unit, I must say that I am beyond frustrated at the built-in WiFi feature, which is supposed to allow for seamless video sharing and uploading. They expect the user to download a current SSL certificate, apply it, yada yada yada, and before you know it, I'm lost and my WiFi isn't working. I have a Mac, so I thought perhaps it's because I'm not setting it up on a Windows based machine. After a hard reset, I tried setting it up on a Windows machine,.... nada. I could not get the WiFi to act reliably on its own.
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Being a frugal photographer, I had hi hopes for this thing.  ... just ... no...
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I purchased this camera along with 2 other brands in December of 2013.  I was initially pleased with the results, resolution and functionality of the 150. However, over the last 6 months, this camera has seemingly decided to quit working and is now averaging 1 picture for every 700-800 of the other two brands despite the cameras being 50' apart.  I had initially thought that it was the batteries, so I replaced them -no joy.  I then swapped the SD card -no joy.  I changed location to a more productive area -no joy.  I'm now left to believe it is the camera itself.  Needless to say, I'm pretty darn disappointed.  Not sure what else to try, my other cameras are capturing images on a regular basis, but as soon as I move this camera into the same location the number of photos decreases dramatically, that is, to next to nothing.
Rating is two stars, but that is only because the images that I do get are of pretty darn good quality.  The detractors associated with this camera are:
1: Image capture
2: the panoramic motor makes noise
3: slight red glow at night
4: battery consumption
5: poor panoramic stitching

I want to like the camera, but by the same token, I can't recommend it with the current performance.  Hopefully the issues are addressed and Moultrie can capitalize on the panoramic market!

As for now, go with the other brand and as they say, "See what you've been missing!"