Cheap Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.0-Inch LCD (Blue)
Panasonic DMC-ZS7A Features
- Features 12.1-megapixel effective recording
- Features 12X optical zoom (4X digital/48X total zoom)
- Built-in GPS function lets you keep track of your photos by location
- Features 3-Inch LCD screen
- Features optical image stabilization
Panasonic DMC-ZS7A Overview
25mm Ultra Wide-angle Powerful 12x Optical Zoom LEICA DC Lens Featuring Intelligent Resolution Technology and Built-in GPS
- Ultra Compact 25mm Lens and 16X Intelligent Zoom – Easily bring your images closer without losing picture quality in an ultra compact camera
- AVCHD Lite HD Movie Recording – Record HD quality movies
- Travel Mode with GPS – Access your images easier by automatically recording location and time of each photo
25mm Ultra Wide-angle Lens
The DMC-ZS7 features a 25mm ultra wide-angle* 12x optical zoom f/3.3-4.9 LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens (35mm camera equivalent: 25-300mm). Incorporating Panasonic’s advanced optical technologies, this lens system is comprised of 10 elements in 8 groups, with 2 ED (Extra Low Dispersion) lenses and 2 aspherical lenses / 3 aspherical surfaces while preserving compactness. This lens system enables a remarkable 25 to 300mm range of focal length in this compact body. The powerful zoom of the DMC-ZS7 can be freely controlled even when shooting motion images. Inheriting the fine rendering and outstanding quality of the LEICA ELMAR lens, this easy-to-carry camera delivers beautiful images any time, any place.
* Converted to standard 35mm camera equivalent, at the maximum wide position. The 25mm ultra wide-angle lens* has about twice the shooting area as a standard 35mm lens. This enhances all kinds of shooting situations, like when you’re photographing a group of people at an indoor party or shooting a large structure or sweeping landscape while traveling.
* Converted to standard 35mm camera equivalent, at the maximum wide position.
16x Intelligent Zoom / 23.4x Extra Optical Zoom
Thanks to the newly incorporated Intelligent Resolution technology, the Intelligent Zoom is available with the DMC-ZS7 which extends the zoom ratio by approx. 1.3x maintaining the picture quality even combining a digital zoom. Th
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Best Review on Panasonic DMC-ZS7A
I tried Fuji, Canon, and some Panasonic models to settle on a camera that suits my preferences. My daughter has a TZ5 and I used to own a TZ4. Both are very good. I have also tried the ZS1, similar to this but with the previous optical image stabilization system. It, too, is good.
Of these: Fuji F31fd, F70EXR, F200EXR, or the Panasonic DMC-TZ4, DMC-TZ5, DMC-ZS1, DMC-ZS3, DMC-FH20, DMC-ZR3, I choose this one, the DCM-ZS7. Here is why: Outdoors, though some of the others are near comparable, this one beats them out in sharpness, colors, decisions for shooting modes, and overall photo quality. The iA mode defaults to 16X zoom (part of that digital) so you have the immediate option but can pull back do 12X to stick with optical zoom only if desired. I see zero quality degradation using the 16X zoom!
The macro is working perfectly on this one–I’ve had trouble with it focusing on many of the others. This camera is better (by far) than the ZS3 before it. Must be programming–I don’t know, or the Power IS system.
I compared this indoors to the new Canon S95 but this one is better. I wasn’t impressed with that Canon indoors even if I tweaked settings (not at ALL impressed–sharpness was way off with it).
For this ZS7 camera indoors, one may need to switch off iA and to to scene mode portrait, or something besides the default exposure choices in iA, to get the best indoor photos. Otherwise the indoor photos are sort of taken with a pretty slow shutter speed and be a little dark. BUT the flash lit up and photographed a completely black room (1/8 second, f4.2, ISO-250). Many of the other cameras would have chosen ISO-800 or 1600 for this situation, but this photo looks fine! My other indoor were all taken at night and our light bulbs are quite dim, so they are fine but not “perfect.” Not blurry, just a bit dark but can be lightened up because the details are there. None of the indoor photos at night with our dim bulbs taken with the other cameras very bright, so it’s par with them with more detail.
My other daughter has a Canon Powershot SD870IS. It does take the best indoor pictures I’ve seen, better than the Fujis I mentioned. I think if I play with what setting I use, this one will, too. The Fujis do one thing universally: choose ISO800 indoors with flash. This camera gives you more options and does not default to high ISO’s when it’s dark inside.
So this camera will work for me. I have an outdoor of the sun streaming into our yard. Only 2 cameras in this group can take that shot: Panasonic DMC-ZS7 and Canon SD870IS. But this camera has a 12X optical zoom so is more versatile.
I’m keeping this, after trying probably a dozen in the past 2 or 3 years. It’s the one!
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