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-TZ10 is a compact 'Travel Zoom' digital camera

Digital camera

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...

 with a 12x zoom lens and GPS receiver. The camera can be connected to a USB port and weighs 218 grams.

In North America, the camera is referred to by model code DMC-ZS7.

Since initial release, Panasonic have published two firmware

Firmware

In electronic systems and computing, firmware is a term often used to denote the fixed, usually rather small, programs and/or data structures that internally control various electronic devices...

 upgrades for the TZ10. Version 1.1 was released in June 2010, and improved stability on camera startup, and support for several external flashes. Firmware version 1.2 was released in September 2010, and improves GPS location retrieval time.

Description

• 12.1 megapixel
• Flash
• 12x optical zoom Leica
  Leica
  Leica Camera AG, a German optics company, produces Leica cameras. The predecessor of the company, formerly known as Ernst Leitz GmbH, is now three companies: Leica Camera AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and Leica Microsystems AG, producing cameras, geosurvey equipment, and microscopes, respectively...
  
   lens
• Objective focus length: 4.1~49.2 mm (35 mm equivalent: 25~300 mm)
• Objective aperture: f/3.3~4.9
• POWER O.I.S. automatic utilisation with processor Venus Engine HD II
• Intelligent Resolution Technology
• Automatic ISO
  Film speed
  Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical scales, the most recent being the ISO system....
  
   control
• 4x Digital Zoom lossless
• PASM
  Mode dial
  A mode dial or camera dial is a dial used on digital cameras to change the camera's mode. Most digital cameras, including dSLR and SLR-like cameras, support modes, selectable either by a dial or from a menu. On point-and-shoot cameras which support modes a range of scene types is offered. On dSLR...
  
   modes
• AVCHD
  AVCHD
  AVCHD is a file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video....
  
   film type with HD resolution 720P (1280x720 / 30fps) and Sound stereo dolby
• GPS module with 500,000 POI
  Poi
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   in the world
• 3' screen 460,000 pixels
• Cards: SD
  Secure Digital
  Secure Digital is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the SD Card Association for use in portable devices. The SD technology is used by more than 400 brands across dozens of product categories and more than 8,000 models, and is considered the de-facto industry standard.Secure Digital...
  
  , SDHC and SDXC

Examples

External links

Product info Panasonic ZS7/TZ10 site.