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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS5 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom with 2.7-Inch LCD (Black)
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
BrandPanasonic
ColorBlack
List Price$279.95
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Features
  • The DMC-ZS5 features a powerful 12x optical zoom lens (35mm camera equivalent: 25-300mm)
  • The 25mm ultra wide-angle lens has about twice the shooting area as a standard 35mm lens
  • The Intelligent Zoom with the DMC-ZS5 extends the zoom ratio by approx. 1.3x maintaining the picture quality even combining a digital zoom
  • The Sonic Speed AF system in the DMC-ZS5 has a maximum speed of approx. 0.35 second (wide-end) / 0.41 second (tele-end) for auto focusing
  • The POWER O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) nearly doubles the hand-shake correction power of conventional MEGA O.I.S
Categories Point & Shoot Digital Cameras   Digital Cameras   10x to 12.9x   12 MP & Up   Photo Viewer   Photo Playback   LCD   20 Inches & Under   Optical   Under 13.9 Inches   All product   Point and Shoots   Electronics  

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Description
Panasonic DMC-ZS5 Digital Camera Features

25mm Ultra Wide-angle 12x Optical Zoom LEICA DC Lens
The DMC-ZS5 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 complex optical technologies, this lens system is comprised of 10 elements in 8 groups, together with 2 ED (More 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 great zoom of the DMC-ZS5can be freely controlled even when shooting motion pictures. Inheriting the fine rendering and excellent excellence of the LEICA ELMAR lens, this simple-to-carry camera brings stunning pictures any time, any situate.

* Converted to standard 35mm camera equivalent, at the maximum wide position.

Great 12x Optical Zoom
The DMC-ZS5 features a great 12x optical zoom lens (35mm camera equivalent: 25-300mm). This provides you highly natural expressions from people and animals this you can't get shut to. It is in addition available in movie recording together with the mechanism intended to minimize the noise of auto focusing or zooming. And its slim, compact, pocket-sized body can effortlessly go wherever you do for together usual snapshots and traveling.

25mm Ultra Wide-angle Lens
The 25mm ultra wide-angle lens* has concerning twice the shooting region as a standard 35mm lens. This increases 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.

16x Intelligent Zoom / 23.4x More Optical Zoom
Thanks to the newly incorporated Intelligent Resolution technology, the Intelligent Zoom is available together with the DMC-ZS5 which expands the zoom ratio by approx. 1.3x maintaining the image excellence even combining a digital zoom. This means the 12x optical can virtuall

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Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 4 of 5  Panasonic Digial "Point and Shoot" Camera   2010-09-09
By Paul B. (Arkansas)
Great camera, particularly the zoom capabilities. And I do like the rechargeable battery design (versus the AA format found with many cameras in this class). I do wish there were more printed instructions on using the camera -- since it seems to have far more capabilities than I am accustomed to. But unfortunately, it does not come with an instructions manual -- other than the "fast start" type.
Customer rating is 4 of 5  Panasonic Lumix DS5   2010-09-09
By Graham Palmer (40 degrees South, Tasmania)
You get plenty of bang for your buck with this model and you save a few dollars if you don't need the GPS feature of the DS-7.
It has amazing HD video and burst capability and the 25mm wide angle and 300 zoom lens is an awesome combination.
This camera gets more use than my SLR now days as it takes photos using Aperture or Shutter priority and Manual modes.
Customer rating is 4 of 5  Solid Travel Camera   2010-09-07
By I am Sam (Richmond, VA USA)
Just came back from my vacation with the new ZS5 bought from Amazon. So far I like it as a travel camera.

Pros:

1. Battery life. No additional battery was needed after whole day of shooting pictures and short videos at Seaworld.
2. Wide Angle and Powerful Zoom. It makes my life easier when I need to take pictures across the street or cover as much scenery as possible.
3. Picture quality. The quality of pictures comes back surprisingly good in most cases given the fact I shoot most of my pictures at daylight. The white balance in most cases is correct.
4. HD Video. O.I.S. makes the video quality very good.

Cons:
1. Low light performance. Don't expect anything good after sunset even with flash.
2. Moving object. Better use DSLR for running kids because of the shutter lag.
3. Learning curve. There are 178 pages of user manual to go through before you can master the function.
4. Face recognition. Sometimes it is not fast enough and sometimes the shadow on the face makes it fail to work.
5. HD video. It is stored in mov file and I wish it can store the video in avi file and encoded in h.264 format which is the standard media player format.

In short I like it as a travel camera because it gives you lots of flexibility in a compact body. As long as you know when and where to use it you will get good result. At the price of $200 I am happy.
Customer rating is 3 of 5  Not impressed   2010-09-07
By Curley Joe
I bought this camera because it had very good reviews. The picture quality is pretty good when there is a lot of light, but in low-light conditions there is a lot of noise in the images. Just zoom in to any dark portion of an image and you'll see what I mean.

Also, I don't know why they use the proprietary QuickTime format for video instead of standard MPEG. QuickTime eats up too much space, and most programs can't deal with it properly.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  One word...Awesome!   2010-09-06
By boarderman
I purchased a Nikon point and shoot two years ago and ever since the day I bought it, my wife complained about it. It was difficult to use, was slow to take pictures and the quality of the pictures was not that great. Needless to say, I was hounded for two years to get another one. So when I finally decided to replace it, I did quite a bit of research on which camera to buy. Everything I read pointed to this camera and I'm glad that it did.
The camera is very well put together. It feels very solid in your hands but it doesn't feel to heavy. The lens zooms in and out very quickly and the camera boots up extremely quickly so that you can grab that quick shot. There are a ton of features which I have yet to use, but fully intend on exploring. There are tons of pre-set scene modes for shooting as well as alot of manual control features. It has has an option to record HD video.
One of the best features for us was the burst feature. We have a baby on the way and my wife really wanted a camera which would be able to grab shots of the baby as he moves around. Our old camera had this feature but it was very slow and the pictures turned out horribly. This cameras burst feature works amazingly. It takes what looks like 2-3 pictures a second and they are very clear.
Another thing about this camera which is very handy is that it focus's extremely quickly and takes pictures as soon as you hit the button. Our previous camera would focus ok, but would be very slow to take the pictures. This new camera will snap a picture as soon as you tell it to and will do it in focus. It came in extremely handy as we just went on a trip to Savannah and toured the city on a trolley tour. We were able to get pictures while riding on the tour that we would have never been able to get before.
It also has an incredible zoom. It is quick to zoom and allows you to capture moments much farther away than most point and shoot cameras.
If you are looking for an incredibly easy to use point and shoot camera that will take amazing pictures but also offer plenty of pre-set and manual features, look no further. I promise you will not be disappointed.



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