| The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 fulfills a variety of photographic needs with is many features including 7.2 megapixel CCD and LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens giving an impressive 12x optical zoom. This zoom can be extended to 18x by using the Extra Optical Zoom function in the 3 megapixel resolution mode and can be brought up to an amazing 72x zoom when combined with the 4x digital zoom.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 offers a level close to an SLR but without the inconvenience of interchangeable lenses.
The MEGA Optical Image Stabiliser compensates for shaky hands, Intelligent ISO control detects when a subject is moving and raises the ISO setting and shutter speed in order to deal with motion blur and, in addition to these major features, the Panasonic DMC-FZ8 also includes Venus Engine III that can record at an ISO sensitivity of 1250 for advanced image processing.
The Panasonic DMC-FZ8 has various scene modes where settings have been pre-selected to suit various situations and these include; portrait, sports, sunset, fireworks, beach, snow and night scenes. Colour effects are cool, black & white, warm and sepia. ISO sensitivity ranges from auto/100/200/400/800/1250 to 3200 (high sensitivity), White Balance offers auto, daylight, shade, cloudy, flash, halogen, white set and white balance adjustment. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 has a built in flash with choices of auto, auto/red-eye reduction, forced on, forced on/red-eye reduction, forced off/flash output adjustment.
A Li-ion battery pack powers the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 giving a battery life of approximately 380 pictures, there is a built-in memory and the Panasonic DMC-FZ8 can take SD/SDHC/MultiMedia memory cards.
The Lumix DMC-FZ8 has a viewfinder with a field of view of approximately 100% together with a 2.5" TFT LCD monitor also giving approximately 100% field of view. Playback modes include 9/25 thumbnail, calendar display, slide show and image rotation. Images are stored as JPEG (Exif 2.21), DPOF and QuickTimeMotion JPEG.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 is PictBridge compatible.
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* 7.2 Megapixels
* 12 x Optical Zoom
* 4 x Digital Zoom
* 48 x Combined Zoom
* 5cm Focusing Distance
* Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Halogen, Flash and White Set White Balance settings
* 2.5" TFT, 207,000 pixels
* Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Fast On, Fast On/Red-eye Reduction, Fast Sync./Red-eye Reduction and Fast Off flash modes
* Maximum Image Size 3072 x 2304 Pixels
* 848 x 480, 30fps Movies
* PictBridge Compatible
* SD Memory Card or MultiMediaCard
* Li-ion Battery
* Approximate Weight 310g |
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