Lumix DMC-ZS3
Product Description (Simple Version)
The DMC- ZS3 records HD action photographs with a effortless sixty frames per second along with 1280 x 720-pixel resolution. It makes use of the AVCHD (MPEG-4/H.264) format, via AVCHD lite, that stores much less data compared to other platforms and therefore allows you to take far more minutes of HD motion pictures before running out of memory space.Simply set the digital camera to iA mode, aim and shoot.
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The camera does all of the rest. It instantly discovers the most appropriate picture setting so helping correct blurring, focus, and brightness problems. With iA mode, it’s straightforward to obtain stunning, clear results. In the ZS3, iA mode can’t be utilized when capturing motion pictures. The lumix DMC-ZS3 delivers a LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens with 12x optical zoom right into a sleek and stylish body. This extremely versatile photographic tool enables you to take everything from sweeping scenery at the 25mm wide-angle setting to powerful 300mm telephoto shots. And the zoom lens system’s superb rendering capability allows you to record even the delicate nuances of the sights and scenes in your travels.
From Panasonic (the more technical version)
The brand new Lumix ZS3 features 10.1-megapixels, a 25mm ultra-wide-angle lens and 12x optical zoom, which means it has added 2x optical zoom to the award-winning TZ-series digital camera, but reduced its size. The ZS3 moreover features a Leica DC Vario-Elmar lens and High-definition (HD) video recording capability, known as AVCHD Lite.
The ZS3 is the world’s first digital camera to feature HD video recording in “AVCHD Lite.” In contrast to the traditional Motion JPEG format, AVCHD Lite permits extended recordings with spectacular HD graphic and sound quality. This coupled with a well-considered command interface, which incorporates a dedicated video recording button to the camera’s back panel, makes the ZS3 a hybrid design that functions very well for both still and motion picture capture.
The lumix DMC-ZS3 additionally expands Panasonic’s popular Intelligent Auto (iA) mode while using addition of Face Recognition–a feature which “remembers” faces from earlier photos. Whenever a registered face appears within the frame, the camera will prioritize focus and exposure to capture it brilliantly. With Face Recognition, whenever a familiar face is registered several times, the camera will prompt you to register the face. Once registered, in the event the face appears in the frame again, the camera displays the name specified for that particular person and prioritize focus and exposure so the registered face is vibrant and sharply focused.
New this year to the ZS-Series, iA mode is likewise available in Movie Mode. It effortlessly chooses the most appropriate Scene mode so helping to fix handshake, focus and lighting problems – making iA mode your one-stop remedy to capture stunning still and motion pictures. In Movie Mode, the ZS3, Optical Image Stabilization (O.I.S.) helps in avoiding handshake when working with the high-powered zoom. Face Detection immediately detects a face in the frame and sets focus, exposure, contrast, and skin complexion so it turns out just right. Intelligent Exposure constantly checks the background light level and changes the exposure setting as conditions change to avoid blown highlights and blocked shadows. And Intelligent Scene Selector automatically changes between Normal, Portrait, Macro, Scenery, and Low Light modes based on the scenario to optimize visual quality.
The imaging power of Lumix has further progressed with the Venus Engine HD, which offers two CPUs to deliver approx. 2.4x processing capability and support for AVCHD Lite and HDMI output. This combines all the innovative functions and camera operations with high overall performance as well as low-power consumption. In image processing, luminance noise and chromatic noise are decreased separately prior to and right after signal processing. This is further enhanced by isolating noise two-dimensionally into high-frequency and low-frequency noise. The circuits then effectively reduce just the low-frequency noise to lessen the unwanted noise and help create exquisite, razor-sharp still and motion images.
Playback with the ZS-series is also simple. Merely place the camera’s SD memory card into the VIERA HDTV’s Image Viewer SD Card slot for a picture slideshow. Alternatively, hook up the digital camera by way of an optional HDMI mini cable, the DMW-HDC2, to a VIERA Link-equipped Panasonic VIERA HDTV and make use of the television’s remote device to perform mixed slideshows of photos and videos. The ZS3 includes a 3-inch, high resolution 460,000-dot Intelligent LCD with a wide viewing angle, boosting visibility throughout recording and playback.