The LUMIX ZS10 features a 24mm ultra-wide-angle and powerful 16x optical zoom LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens, while also being able to deliver full-High Definition 1920x1080 video recording capability and the new Panasonic 3D Photo mode, which produces a realistic 3D photo by taking 20 consecutive photos and overlaying the two best images.
Furthermore, the new digital camera also sports a 3.0-inch, 460,000-dot Smart Touch Intelligent LCD – which allows for Touch Zoom, Touch Auto Focus (AF), Touch Shutter, and Touch Playback, as well as a built-in GPS (Global Positioning System) function allowing geotagged images to be pinpointed via online maps.
Beside the Lumix ZS10, Panasonic also unveiled today the LUMIX DMC-ZS8, featuring a 24mm ultra-wide angle and powerful 16x optical zoom LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens, as well as an iA mode including POWER OIS, Intelligent ISO Control, Intelligent Scene Selector, Face Recognition, Intelligent Exposure, Venus Engine VI featuring Intelligent Resolution, 720p HD video recording in Motion JPEG, Large 3.0-inch large 230,000-dot Intelligent LCD, Manual exposure and the LUMIX Image Uploader.
"With the introduction of the LUMIX ZS10, Panasonic expects to continue to lead the market in long zoom digital cameras, as this very advanced digital camera not only offers a 16x optical zoom, but with an even wider 24mm Leica lens, this is a truly robust digital camera for both still photos and full HD 1080 videos," said David Briganti, senior product manager, Imaging, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company.
“With new features such as touch-screen operation and even a 3D photo mode, Panasonic continues to pack the ZS10 with innovative features for capturing high-quality photos and videos, which can be easily shared with family and friends using the new LUMIX Image Uploader feature," the company's rep commented.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
picking the best digital camera
So you’ve heard about the latest models of digital cameras in the market and you know it’s high time to buy one. But with almost all of them sporting the sleekest style, enormous megapixels, super zooms and wide LCD screens, how would you know what is best for you or the one you’re buying it for?
Well, let’s make this easier for you. Before you get swayed into swiping your card, consider these top five factors: megapixels, price, optical zoom, compatibility of accessories, and of course, the feel.
1. Megapixels (MP)
A souped up point and shoot (compact digicam) boasts of seven to eight megapixels. This feature allows you to print billboard-size photographs or blow up a certain portion of the image without the blur. But if you only plan to print pictures to a maximum of 11” x 14”, five MP is already more than enough. How is this? A megapixel is millions of dots that stores color information per square inch. This is your image’s resolution. So if you have an 8MP digital camera, it simply implies that even if you stretch the image to larger than life proportions, there are enough pixels (dots) to fill the space. If you use a low resolution picture for a billboard, the tendency of the pixels is to stretch itself to fill out the space. Remember though: the larger the megapixel, the larger the file size. So make sure you have a big enough memory card. You wouldn’t want to end up selecting and deleting images that you haven’t even printed or transferred to your PC yet.
2. Price
This one is really quite an issue for the tight-budget consumer. But take it easy. For certain, it will make you smile if you find out that not all cheaper models are of less quality in terms of performance. Most of the time, the manufacturers race up to level their performance with top tiers and take a hundred or more pesos off. And because there’s always a new model or feature coming up, it will only take a month or so to get your heart’s most desired digital camera at 10% to 15% off!
3. Optical Zoom
Are all zooms equal? Not! This is because optical, not digital, zoom is the real deal. The difference: digital zoom is only good for reference and not for printing as it only enlarges the pixels, making your image bigger yet prone to becoming blurred resulting to poor quality; however, optical zoom is the lens’ capability to magnify by the number of x. So if your subject is 50 feet away, and your lens has a 5x optical zoom, it can make your subject seem 10 feet away. Or comparatively speaking, a 270mm lens is equal to 27x zoom. As this feature depends on the lens, the larger the optical zoom, the heavier the camera gets. This is where you’ll have to use tripods to avoid camera shake.
4. Compatibility of Accessories
If you have existing gadgets, you might want to check what you have now and see if they have anything that you could use with the new camera you’re planning to buy. It can save you a thousand bucks or more if your new camera uses the same storage device or batteries with your gadgets. You could either use them for your new digital camera or use them as a spare. Just a tip though. If you use AA batteries, make sure they’re rechargeable batteries as they are more cost efficient. For digital SLR camera buyers, if you could attach your old lenses to your new DSLR, you can absolutely save thousands of pesos.
Consider as well the means to transfer your data. As the image files get bigger due to the increase in megapixels, it is wise to invest in a USB 2.0 interface for faster uploading.
5. The Feel
Finally, upon checking out most of the features online, it is necessary that you visit the camera shops to get a feel of your top choices. See how your fingers fall on the controls. Are they too small that your fingers press two switches at a time? How about the menu, are they too difficult to browse through? Is the LCD bright enough or big enough? Is the camera just light or heavy enough? Trying out the camera helps you eliminate the “feel” factor. Plus it helps you gauge the camera personally.
Well, let’s make this easier for you. Before you get swayed into swiping your card, consider these top five factors: megapixels, price, optical zoom, compatibility of accessories, and of course, the feel.
1. Megapixels (MP)
A souped up point and shoot (compact digicam) boasts of seven to eight megapixels. This feature allows you to print billboard-size photographs or blow up a certain portion of the image without the blur. But if you only plan to print pictures to a maximum of 11” x 14”, five MP is already more than enough. How is this? A megapixel is millions of dots that stores color information per square inch. This is your image’s resolution. So if you have an 8MP digital camera, it simply implies that even if you stretch the image to larger than life proportions, there are enough pixels (dots) to fill the space. If you use a low resolution picture for a billboard, the tendency of the pixels is to stretch itself to fill out the space. Remember though: the larger the megapixel, the larger the file size. So make sure you have a big enough memory card. You wouldn’t want to end up selecting and deleting images that you haven’t even printed or transferred to your PC yet.
2. Price
This one is really quite an issue for the tight-budget consumer. But take it easy. For certain, it will make you smile if you find out that not all cheaper models are of less quality in terms of performance. Most of the time, the manufacturers race up to level their performance with top tiers and take a hundred or more pesos off. And because there’s always a new model or feature coming up, it will only take a month or so to get your heart’s most desired digital camera at 10% to 15% off!
3. Optical Zoom
Are all zooms equal? Not! This is because optical, not digital, zoom is the real deal. The difference: digital zoom is only good for reference and not for printing as it only enlarges the pixels, making your image bigger yet prone to becoming blurred resulting to poor quality; however, optical zoom is the lens’ capability to magnify by the number of x. So if your subject is 50 feet away, and your lens has a 5x optical zoom, it can make your subject seem 10 feet away. Or comparatively speaking, a 270mm lens is equal to 27x zoom. As this feature depends on the lens, the larger the optical zoom, the heavier the camera gets. This is where you’ll have to use tripods to avoid camera shake.
4. Compatibility of Accessories
If you have existing gadgets, you might want to check what you have now and see if they have anything that you could use with the new camera you’re planning to buy. It can save you a thousand bucks or more if your new camera uses the same storage device or batteries with your gadgets. You could either use them for your new digital camera or use them as a spare. Just a tip though. If you use AA batteries, make sure they’re rechargeable batteries as they are more cost efficient. For digital SLR camera buyers, if you could attach your old lenses to your new DSLR, you can absolutely save thousands of pesos.
Consider as well the means to transfer your data. As the image files get bigger due to the increase in megapixels, it is wise to invest in a USB 2.0 interface for faster uploading.
5. The Feel
Finally, upon checking out most of the features online, it is necessary that you visit the camera shops to get a feel of your top choices. See how your fingers fall on the controls. Are they too small that your fingers press two switches at a time? How about the menu, are they too difficult to browse through? Is the LCD bright enough or big enough? Is the camera just light or heavy enough? Trying out the camera helps you eliminate the “feel” factor. Plus it helps you gauge the camera personally.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Nokia C7 with an 8 megapixel camera
The handset has an impressive sleek design featuring a 3.5 inch nHD AMOELD touch display rendered in 16:9 widescreen ratio and offering simple touch control of the Symbian 3 operating system and user interface along with onscreen alphanumeric and full QWERTY keyboards respectively. The handset also offers up to three customisable home screens, each of which can be customised y you with your own themes, icons, shortcuts, widgets and more. It also offers a great variety of ringtones with all major music file types available to use as your ringer when people call.
The C7 has an 8 megapixel camera with the use of the fullscreen as viewfinder and offering a third generation dual LED flash to enable you to still capture great pictures even in poor light conditions. Meanwhile, the camera is also capable of video recording in High Definition and has up to 3 times digital zoom in video mode, as opposed to 2 times in image mode. There is also a secondary front VGA camera featured for both video calling, and also self-portrait shots made easy. The photos and videos can be instantly shared with friends through the integrated social networking, while you can also connect the handset to a television set for playback on a bigger screen.
The phone has Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity, along with microUSB connector (also for charging) which offers High SPeed USB on the go. There is also an FM radio and FM transmitter for live music and news on or via your mobile, while the 3.5mm jack connection allows you to enjoy audio via a set of standard headphones. Additionally, the handset has both video and conference calling, as well as an integrated handsfree speaker and active noise cancellation for clearer calls. The phone also features a full HTML web browser and an easy to use and set up email client offering unified push notification and the ability to configure multiple email accounts.
The Nokia C7 is a petite and stylish touch handset featuring seamless software which is easy to control and move around with its intuitive user interface, while also providing excellent hardware such as its 8 megapixel camera. Additionally, it comes with plenty of preinstalled entertainment, messaging and social networking features.
The C7 has an 8 megapixel camera with the use of the fullscreen as viewfinder and offering a third generation dual LED flash to enable you to still capture great pictures even in poor light conditions. Meanwhile, the camera is also capable of video recording in High Definition and has up to 3 times digital zoom in video mode, as opposed to 2 times in image mode. There is also a secondary front VGA camera featured for both video calling, and also self-portrait shots made easy. The photos and videos can be instantly shared with friends through the integrated social networking, while you can also connect the handset to a television set for playback on a bigger screen.
The phone has Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity, along with microUSB connector (also for charging) which offers High SPeed USB on the go. There is also an FM radio and FM transmitter for live music and news on or via your mobile, while the 3.5mm jack connection allows you to enjoy audio via a set of standard headphones. Additionally, the handset has both video and conference calling, as well as an integrated handsfree speaker and active noise cancellation for clearer calls. The phone also features a full HTML web browser and an easy to use and set up email client offering unified push notification and the ability to configure multiple email accounts.
The Nokia C7 is a petite and stylish touch handset featuring seamless software which is easy to control and move around with its intuitive user interface, while also providing excellent hardware such as its 8 megapixel camera. Additionally, it comes with plenty of preinstalled entertainment, messaging and social networking features.
Panasonic cameras HS700-video 240G large HDD
Panasonic recently introduced high-definition camcorder market, respectively, have the highest standards of today's three 3MOS 1920x1080 resolution Full HD camcorder. Including not only the use of the perfect way unparalleled 1080/50p recording (Full HD 1920x1080, 50 line progressive scan recording mode) also has a better camera than the original picture perfect reproducibility of advanced 3MOS system, HS700, TM700, including new products, team to further expand the camera's fun. HS700/TM700 These high-end models used 1080/50p recording mode (Full HD 1920x1080, 50 line progressive scan recording method) can capture expressive images, but will not appear original 1080i (interlaced) recording Details of when the common phenomenon of loss and flicker. If only a camera and VIERA TV * Connected, you can enjoy through any one of the VIERA 1080p playback * Large screen TV, watch recorded by the camera Full HD 1920x1080p images. Panasonic HS700 HS700 Hybrid Camcorder can record the data capacity of 240GB hard drives in large and SDXC ***, SDHC, or SD memory card; dual card camera TM700 can record the data in 32GB of memory and SDXC, SDHC, or SD memory card. According to their preferred medium, from the two models to choose the best camera. High sensitivity 3MOS system up to 7,590,000 pixels effective video pixels (2,530,000 pixels x3). It can not only take 14.2 megapixels of still images (using the still image mode), but also images from the recorded clip of 13.3 megapixels of still images. Combined with the huge amount of pixels, the new technologies developed through the play to further improve the sensitivity and noise that would otherwise be reduced to half, so even in dim light situations can shoot Noise Wave tiny bright screen. It can maximize 3MOS excellent color reproduction, high resolution and the depth of such rich features, which even in dim light, bright or light color of the place that they can capture moving images. New design of large-diameter F1.5 Leica lens can capture images of unparalleled splendor. By CrystalEnginePro (energy-efficient Crystal Engine) image processing circuit technology used in smart resolution can be further enhanced 12x optical zoom lens and a multiple of 18 times to achieve the new smart zoom. The new zoom function can also reproduce more subtle image details. The new model comes with all applicable self-timer or a group photograph in the room, and outdoor shooting scenes photographed in various different occasions shooting wide-angle 35 mm **.
Camera also has previous models acclaimed iA (intelligent Auto) functions, so that anyone can easily capture moving images of perfection. POWERO.IS (Enhanced Optical Image Stabilizer) system has the equivalent of about five times the original correction capability can be effectively inhibited in the past are difficult to overcome the low frequency jitter caused by the fuzziness. Can inhibit the binding phenomenon of enhanced fuzzy models, walking the course can be taken in any position clear and sharp images. In addition, the new model also has a LUMIX digital camera acclaimed personal recognition, it can identify registered subjects face and automatically optimize focus and exposure. Whether the subject moved to the L CD Any part of the screen are able to continuously track, can be said is ideal for photography. For example, it is ideal for clearly capturing the face of the children population.
These models also has manual control ring can simply do not want to rely on the automatic setting of skilled amateur to shoot camera personnel, provide the perfect control settings. Large control loop can directly control the zoom, focus, exposure, shutter speed and white balance. Electronic Viewfinder and microphone ports can also be personalized to achieve more control. Panasonic TM700 Wind mute function by the use of new technologies to further improve the function of the earlier storm, so the camera can only detect, suppress wind noise, maintain the atmosphere of the natural environment with realistic sound.
Camera also has previous models acclaimed iA (intelligent Auto) functions, so that anyone can easily capture moving images of perfection. POWERO.IS (Enhanced Optical Image Stabilizer) system has the equivalent of about five times the original correction capability can be effectively inhibited in the past are difficult to overcome the low frequency jitter caused by the fuzziness. Can inhibit the binding phenomenon of enhanced fuzzy models, walking the course can be taken in any position clear and sharp images. In addition, the new model also has a LUMIX digital camera acclaimed personal recognition, it can identify registered subjects face and automatically optimize focus and exposure. Whether the subject moved to the L CD Any part of the screen are able to continuously track, can be said is ideal for photography. For example, it is ideal for clearly capturing the face of the children population.
These models also has manual control ring can simply do not want to rely on the automatic setting of skilled amateur to shoot camera personnel, provide the perfect control settings. Large control loop can directly control the zoom, focus, exposure, shutter speed and white balance. Electronic Viewfinder and microphone ports can also be personalized to achieve more control. Panasonic TM700 Wind mute function by the use of new technologies to further improve the function of the earlier storm, so the camera can only detect, suppress wind noise, maintain the atmosphere of the natural environment with realistic sound.
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