Panasonic Lumix TZ70 Review

Panasonic Lumix TZ70 Review – Image Quality

Panasonic Lumix TZ70 Sample Image Gallery

Colour and white balance

On the whole the TZ70 is reliable when it comes to its white balance performance and colour accuracy.

There are some issues on occasion with colour shifting from one exposure to the next, however this only happens in some instances and isn’t enough of an issue to put you off the camera.

With this in mind it’s probably best to shoot either Raw or both Raw and JPEG wherever possible.

Exposure

While on the whole the metering system on the TZ70 is reliable, there is the slight tendency for the camera to underexpose. This is easily enough rectified through the exposure compensation dial, or by utilising one of the area-specific metering modes.

Resolution

One natural trade-off with the drop in the sensor’s megapixel count in comparison to its predecessor is that the TZ70 is capable of rendering less detail than the TZ60. With that being said, the drop isn’t too huge and there are other benefits for the lower megapixel count.

Noise

One of the aforementioned benefits of this megapixel count is an improvement in handling of noise at higher ISO settings. The TZ70 displays this by handling noise capably up to ISO 400, and at ISO 800 the general levels of noise are still minimal.

At ISO 1600 noise does begin to become somewhat of an issue, however it’s not until ISO 3200 and 6400 that image quality really drops off thanks to colour distortion and detail smearing.