Performance
The camera takes just a second to start up, which is brilliant. If you switch the preview off it takes practically no time to take the next image. On the whole I was very happy with the quality of the images (after I saw what they actually looked like on my PC, that is).
Outdoor shots of landscapes and scenery with and without people were really quite good. The colors are a bit too vivid though. They seem bright and a little burned out. But quite vibrant nevertheless.
These closeups of flowers in macro mode will demonstrate exactly what I mean when I talk about the colors being too vivid. They appear so bright they could hurt your eyes. Where the heck are my sunglasses?
The good thing (and this is a matter of opinion of course) is that if there's no sun, the images will make it crystal clear that it was either raining or dull, or that you were under cloud cover. Detail is preserved quite well, but there's a minor issue when it comes to dark greens – they tend to blur and look 'painted'.
If you zoom in to an object, over and above the 3x optical zoom capabilities in digital zoom, the images would naturally appear a bit blurry and unfocused, but the quality is still better than that of most cameras in its class that I've reviewed.
On the plus side, the video recordings came out great. You can get some very decent videos using the Z75.
Now we come to the battery. On a single charge I had no problem using it for a full two days even with videos. On a seven-day trip with plenty of video and photo ops, I had to charge the battery just once.
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