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\"_K3_2691\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\"_K3_2692\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The defining feature of this camera has to be that 38-180mm focal length lens.\u00a0 A lens that I might point out has an aperture of f12.9\u00a0 at the long end.\u00a0 Doing a little math in the form of a word problem.<\/p>\n

Q: On a nice clear day Little Suzy has a Canon Z180 loaded with 400 ASA film and wants to take a picture of her friend Phil who is off in the distance on the edge of the woods looking like a hipster lumberjack.\u00a0 If Suzy zooms to 180mm how much motion blur will the picture have?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0 As Phil is in the shade of the woods and has a dark beard the light is likely to be around EV 11 so the camera would select a shutter speed of around 1\/60 of a second or about 2 stops too slow for that focal length on 35mm film resulting in just enough blur to make you say ‘Ugggg where is my digital camera and is that a squirrel attacking Phils face’<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I also don’t think that the focusing is quite up to the zoom factor of the lens as it seems to miss focus more than less ambitious zoom models.<\/p>\n

One thing about one camera:\u00a0 You can set the flash to always be off through this simple method.\u00a0 With the camera off hold down the timer button then press the flash button, CF 1-0 will show on the LCD (That’s custom function 1 – off) press the zoom in button once to select CF 2-0 now press the flash button to set it to CF 2-1 (Custom function 2 – on)\u00a0, turn the camera on to finish the setting.\u00a0 Now when you turn the camera off it will remember the shooting and flash mode so you can disable the flash and keep it that way.\u00a0 Super easy, Ugggg where is my digital camera?<\/p>\n\n\t\t