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Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 Digital Camera Review

August 18, 2006

The global leader Panasonic has excelled itself not only in thefield of electronic goods but also in imaging products. The new Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera is the prefect example to point out Panasonic’s excellence in the field of imaging products. Created with highly advanced features and modern technology, the new Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera provides you with almost all the features of the best digital camera.

Best images with the best camera

The new Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera allows you to take the best images with the best quality and brightness. The new Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera features a 2-inch colour TFT active matrix LCD screen with a display format of 130000 pixels. The Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera is a 5-mega-pixel camera with an optical CCD sensor having a size of 1/2.5 inches. This also offers an effective sensor resolution of 5000000 pixels. This Panasonic 4x digital zoom camera also supports a digital zoom of 4x and a 12x optical zoom. It also supports various shooting modes including Portrait mode, party or indoor, surf and snow, night portrait, scenery, fireworks, night scene, panning and sports mode. A very significant feature of the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera is its lens. The camera uses the Leica DC Vario-Elmarit Lens. This lens is very small in size but still it features a very large and bright aperture. It also uses the highly advanced ED or extra-low dispersion glass in its lens. This helps to minimise the refraction differences among light of different wavelengths and also helps to hold back the colour bleeding that occurs in telephoto shots. The Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera comes with an integrated 16 MB flash SD memory card that is supported by multimedia card and SD memory card. This digital camera also features a pop-up flash with flash modes like Fill-in mode, slow synchro, and auto mode, flash OFF mode and built in red-eye reduction. The flash features of the camera include AF illuminator and flash +/- compensation. The other significant features of the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera include:

  1. Automatic and manual focus adjustment

  2. Optical Image Stabilizer

  3. Histogram Display

  4. Exposure Metering with Multi-segment, centre-weighted and spot

  5. Exposure modes include programme, automatic, manual, aperture-priority and shutter-priority

  6. Auto focus with TTL contrast detection

  7. Self-timer

  8. Hot shoe flash terminal

  9. Viewfinder

  10. Audio recording

  11. Built-in speaker

  12. RGB primary colour filter

  13. Auto power-save

  14. Digital noise reduction

  15. Date/time stamp

  16. DPOF support

  17. PictBridge support

The weight of the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 digital camera is 556 grams and it comes with a width of 12.8 cm, a height of 8.7 cm and a depth of 10.6-cm. The Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 is also available in black and silver shades an optional remote control. The Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ20 also comes with software’s including Drivers and Utilities, Arc Soft Photo Impression, Arc Soft Photo Base, Arc Soft Panorama Maker and the system requirements for PC connection include MS Windows XP, MS Windows 2000, MS Windows ME, MS Windows 98, MS Windows 98 SE, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS 9.x and the peripheral devices include USB port and a CD-ROM Drive.

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