Olympus FE-25 vs Panasonic LZ30

Below, we will be looking at the Olympus FE-25 vs Panasonic LZ30, one being a Ultracompact and the latter is a Small Sensor Superzoom by brands Olympus and Panasonic. There exists a significant gap among the sensor resolutions of the FE-25 (10MP) and LZ30 (16MP) but they possess the exact same sensor dimensions (1/2.3").

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The FE-25 was launched 5 years before the LZ30 and that is a fairly sizable gap as far as camera technology is concerned. Each of the cameras come with different body type with the Olympus FE-25 being a Ultracompact camera and the Panasonic LZ30 being a SLR-like (bridge) camera.

Before getting in to a full comparison, below is a short summation of how the FE-25 scores against the LZ30 for portability, imaging, features and an overall grade.

This is a preview of the gallery images for Olympus FE-25 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ30. The complete galleries are available at Olympus FE-25 Gallery and Panasonic LZ30 Gallery.

In case you're going to lug around your camera often, you're going to have to think about its weight and measurements. The Olympus FE-25 offers external dimensions of 93mm x 62mm x 24mm (3.7" x 2.4" x 0.9") having a weight of n/a grams (0.00 lbs) whilst the Panasonic LZ30 has proportions of 124mm x 84mm x 92mm (4.9" x 3.3" x 3.6") accompanied by a weight of 552 grams (1.22 lbs).

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Always remember, the weight of an Interchangeable Lens Camera will change depending on the lens you have chosen at that moment. The following is the front view scale comparison of the FE-25 vs the LZ30.

Looking at dimensions and weight, the portability grade of the FE-25 and LZ30 is 98 and 66 respectively.

Sometimes, its difficult to visualise the contrast in sensor measurements purely by checking out technical specs. The visual here will help provide you a far better sense of the sensor sizes in the FE-25 and LZ30.

As you can tell, both of the cameras posses the exact same sensor measurements albeit not the same megapixels. You should expect the Panasonic LZ30 to produce more detail utilizing its extra 6MP. Higher resolution will enable you to crop photographs somewhat more aggressively. The older FE-25 will be behind in sensor tech.