List Price:
$599.99
Details
- Sweet body, full manual controls, movie mode with sound circumscribed by memory card size
- 12x visual zoom and 3x digital zoom (36x total); optical image stabilization helps follow images sharp when using extended zoom
- 4.0 megapixel sensor captures ample detail to create photo-quality prints up to 11 x 14
Description
The 4-megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ10 offers a tummler of professional features at an affordable price. It includes a 12x optical zoom with replica stabilization, full manual controls (with a manual convergence ring), a hot shoe accessory connector, and movie mode with audio. This Lumix epitome (the DMC-FZ10S) has a silver body; the DMC-FZ10K has a black body.
Optics and Resolution
With its 4-megapixel CCD sensor, you can capture up to a 2304 x 1728 pixel personification for prints up to 11 x 17 inches. It also has 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, and 640 x 480 pixel acutance settings (and 1920 x 1080 for display on HDTV wide motion pictures TVs with a 16:9 aspect ratio).
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| No Zoom | 3x Zoom | 6x Zoom | 9x Zoom | 12x Zoom |
The Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens features an F2.8 jollity throughout the entire 12x zoom range, which is equivalent to a 35-420mm zoom lens on a established 35mm film camera. (The DMC-FZ10 also has a 3x digital zoom.) Its precision lens, bizarre telephoto features and no-lag processing speed enable this camera to nab every detail of distant or quick-moving subjects with mind-boggling brightness and clarity. The Lumix DMC-FZ10 image stabilization system uses gyroscopes within the camera to be under the impression that camera shake and shift the lens elements to compensate for the activity--thus enabling you to shoot at a slower shutter speed.
| Fro Panasonic's MEGA Optical Image Stabilizer |
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Handheld telephoto shots, or open fire- ing in low-light conditions, often magnifies unintentional hand ruse- ments into blurry images (above, top). This visual technology (bottom) provides precise compen- sation for these movements without any ignominy of image quality. |
Movie Mode In addition to taking even now photos, the DMC-FZ10 can also record 320 x 240 movie clips at either 30 or 10 frames per support (fps) with audio. Your video length is limited only by the dimensions of your memory card. The included 16 MB card can propound 25 seconds of 30 fps video.
More Features
In additionally to the variety of convenient automatic controls, the DMC-FZ10 has full manual tiller for exposure, focusing, and white balance. Manual exposure talent gives you complete freedom for capturing images according to your preferences, including considered overexposure or underexposure. The manual focus ring provided on the lens tub, like traditional camera lenses, allows you to focus on the exacting part of your subject according to your preference. Innovative histogram functions on the DMC-FZ10, like a digital light meter, minister to a graphic representation of the luminance level of the pixels composing an notion for more precise exposure control for quality photos.
Incredibly communicative, the DMC-FZ10 captures consecutive shots nearly as quickly as a motor-provoked film camera. As soon as the camera's CCD captures the image timer, Panasonic's multi-tasking Venus Engine LSI simultaneously displays images on the LCD while calligraphy data to the memory card, significantly reducing lag time linking shots. To capture sudden events as they unfold, Panasonic's singular Mega Burst recording feature enables consecutive quick-fire shooting, capturing 4 frames per second with undiminished distinction from frame to frame.
Other features include:
- 2-inch LCD make visible with 130,000-pixel resolution
- Flash modes: Coupй, Red-Eye Auto, On, Red-Eye On, Red-Eye Slow Sync
- Focus modes: Auto Distinct System, Manual Focus, Normal/Macro (Dial), Spatter AF On/Off (Spot Mode), Continuous AF On/Off
- Audio recording with images up to 5 seconds
As an supplementary bonus, Panasonic includes a lens hood, which comes in accessible when you're shooting outdoors. The lens hood is threaded for 72 mm filters, as thoroughly.
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| Designed for action shots, Panasonic's Mega Burst imaging captures up to eight total-resolution shots in two seconds. |
Storage and Transfer Images are stored on either Acquire Digital (SD) or MultiMediaCard (MMC) memory cards. A 16 MB SD card is included with the DMC-FZ10. At the 2304 x 1728 pixel context, the 16 MB card can hold 8 images at Fine Quality modus operandi or 16 at Standard Quality mode.
Images can be downloaded to either a Mac or PC via USB 1.1 connectivity, which means the camera can be useful to any USB-based Windows Me/2000/XP and Mac OS 8.6 or later computer without installing any software.
Power and Square footage
The camera is powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery (included). It provision 3.4 x 5.5 x 4.2 inches and weighs 19.4 ounces (550 grams).
What's In The Box
This parcel includes the Lumix DMC-FZ10S (silver) digital camera, 16 MB Secure Digital celebration card, rechargeable lithium-ion battery (CGA-S002A), AC adapter/battery mount, lens hood, lens cap, neck strap, USB and A/V cables, and 139-summon forth printed manual. It also includes the following software:
- ArcSoft PhotoBase--Over images from an SD Memory Card to a PC that "footnotes" and manifestation them in a list
- ArcSoft PhotoImpression--Adjust colors and change images to create calendars, cards, etc.
- ArcSoft Panorama Maker--Amalgamate separate photos to create a single image
- ArcSoft PhotoPrinter Pro--Opt for numerous photos to print together as one group
- SD Viewer for DSC--Makes it undemanding to check image data on an SD Memory Card. Use it to create glide shows and save them on an SD Memory Card (For Windows)