Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Panasonic
Panasonic
Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...

Lumix
Lumix
Lumix is Panasonic's brand of digital cameras, ranging from pocket point-and-shoot models to digital SLRs.Compact digital camera DMC-LC5 and DMC-F7 were the first products of the Lumix series released in 2001. They are equipped with Leica lenses....

DMC-FZ8 is a superzoom

Superzoom

The term hyperzoom or superzoom is used to advertise photographic zoom lenses with unconventionally large focal length factors, typically more than 5× and ranging up to 15×, e.g., 35 mm to 350 mm. The largest ratio for digital SLR cameras is held by the Tamron 18–270 mm, giving 15×....

bridge digital camera

Bridge digital camera

Bridge cameras are cameras which fill the niche between the single-lens reflex cameras and the Point-and-shoot camera. They are often comparable in size and weight to the smallest Digital SLRs , but almost all digital bridge cameras lack an optical viewfinder system...

that features:

1/2.5" sensor 7 megapixel resolution
Fast f/2.8-3.3 Leica zoom lens
Zoom lens
A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length lens...

12x zoom lens
Mega O.I.S. (optical image stabilizer
Image stabilization
Image stabilization is a family of techniques used to reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera during exposure. Specifically, it compensates for pan and tilt of a camera or other imaging device. It is used in image-stabilized binoculars, still and video cameras, and astronomical...

) in the lens, reducing blurring by compensating for handshake
Intelligent ISO Control
Extra Optical Zoom (achieved by cropping to lower resolution)
Multiple modes of operation, including manual modes
Optional Raw image format
RAW image format
A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor...
VGA movie mode
Computer display standard
Computer display standards are often a combination of aspect ratio, display resolution, color depth, and refresh rate.This article describes the different display standards for computer displays.-History:...

in both normal and wide aspect ratio
Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of the width of the image to its height, expressed as two numbers separated by a colon. That is, for an x:y aspect ratio, no matter how big or small the image is, if the width is divided into x units of equal length and the height is measured using this...
Relatively compact size and light weight

As with most Panasonic Lumix cameras, it uses a Venus Engine

Venus Engine

The Venus processing engine for digital cameras is an image processing engine developed by Panasonic, and almost all of their Lumix cameras use a version of it. Image processors operate in four steps: receive data from the CCD sensor, create the Y-color difference signal , perform JPEG compression,...

, in this case, the Venus Engine III.

The camera has a 2.5" color LCD display and a color electronic viewfinder

Electronic viewfinder

An electronic viewfinder or EVF is a viewfinder where the image captured by the lens is projected electronically onto a miniature display. The image on this display is used to assist in aiming the camera at the scene to be photographed.-Operation:...

, and is available in two colors, black (suffix K) and silver (suffix S).

The DMC-FZ8 became available in the USA in February 2007 at a recommended retail price

Suggested retail price

The manufacturer's suggested retail price , list price or recommended retail price of a product is the price which the manufacturer recommends that the retailer sell the product. The intention was to help to standardise prices among locations...

of $350.

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