The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 – Best low cost compact digital camera of 2009:
My job today is to find and put in front of our cost conscious users the best compact digital camera that has a lot to offer for a not-so-premium price tag of around £275/$350. After looking around searching the net and reading reviews, I have come to the conclusion that the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 owns this price: performance crown.
Panasonic has mostly been moderate about its products in the recent months but within the silence it has been producing some great products from high-end- quality HD cam-recorders to stunning HD T.V sets.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 is a compact camera and comes with 10.1 megapixels, which I know is not massive in the world of 15 or even 20 megapixels cameras but it is up there considering the price and quality it produces which is achieved from a massive 12x zoom, 25mm ultra wide-angle lens. Luckily, it doesn’t have the problems of distorting or softening images like other super high zooms.
This camera can also be seen as a hybrid of a cam-recorder and a normal ‘conventional digital’ camera. It has a built-in feature called AVCHD which is used in some Panasonic and Sony cam-recorders as well and makes the Lumix DMC-TZ7 capable of recording HD audio and video at 720p resolution although it has to be said that, this is the only area where it some-what struggles to perform in ability, focusing, zooming and the capture speed of fast moving objects (into a video) but the end quality doesn’t suffer much.
The camera’s exterior is also of a solid and superior quality to other cameras in the same price range and is very well constructed. It has a superb three-inch high resolution screen which blends in beautifully with the internal features and does justice to the overall product. Other functions and features include an improved face detection and image stabilization system, a mini HDMI port.
Overall this is a very good camera in most of the aspects and will fulfill almost all the needs of an average user/photographer. Prices in the UK start at around £250, making it great value for the money.
Ten Technologies rates the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7, a highly respectable score of 8 out of 10.
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Panasonic has mostly been moderate about its products in the recent months but within the silence it has been producing some great products from high-end- quality HD cam-recorders to stunning HD T.V sets.
This camera can also be seen as a hybrid of a cam-recorder and a normal ‘conventional digital’ camera. It has a built-in feature called AVCHD which is used in some Panasonic and Sony cam-recorders as well and makes the Lumix DMC-TZ7 capable of recording HD audio and video at 720p resolution although it has to be said that, this is the only area where it some-what struggles to perform in ability, focusing, zooming and the capture speed of fast moving objects (into a video) but the end quality doesn’t suffer much.
The camera’s exterior is also of a solid and superior quality to other cameras in the same price range and is very well constructed. It has a superb three-inch high resolution screen which blends in beautifully with the internal features and does justice to the overall product. Other functions and features include an improved face detection and image stabilization system, a mini HDMI port.
Overall this is a very good camera in most of the aspects and will fulfill almost all the needs of an average user/photographer. Prices in the UK start at around £250, making it great value for the money.
Ten Technologies rates the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7, a highly respectable score of 8 out of 10.
