Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 / FZ38

PhotographyBLOG has posted their review of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 / FZ38, an ultra zoom digital camera that provides "a well-balanced and full-featured overall package" with its 12.1MP resolution (on a 1/2.33-in. CCD), 18x wide-angle optical zoom (27-486mm equiv.), optical Image Stabilization, 2.7-in. (230K dots) LCD, Intelligent AUTO (iA) mode, PASM, Scene modes, Face Recognition, and HD movie 1,280 x 720 pixels @ 30 fps.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

DMC-FZ35 – LUMIX® with New POWER O.I.S. and HD Motion Zoom Video Capture

MSP: CAD $499.99

Available in September 2009 in black

Key Features:

• AVCHD Lite, HD video recording; 27mm wide-angle; 18x optical zoom LEICA DC lens
• Power to shoot HD videos (including motion zoom to take advantage of the 18x zoom)
• Dedicated Video Record Button, making it a true hybrid – capturing both still and motion images – providing smooth operation in either mode
• Creative Movie Mode allows user to set the shutter speed and aperture manually to make even more impressive movies
• My Color Mode gives free reign to the user’s creativity re: color, brightness and saturation parameters
• High Dynamic Mode helps to capture a scene with moderate exposure even though the scene may contain both bright and dark areas.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZR1

DMC-ZR1 – LUMIX

MSP: CAD $279.95

Available in September 2009 in black and blue.

Key Features:

• World’s First 0.3mm Thin Aspherical Lens offers super-slim design
  Powerful, 25mm Ultra-Wide-Angle
• 8x optical zoom2 LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens – also works in video recording
• 12.1-megapixel resolution
• Fast, high-speed Auto Focus (AF)
• High-speed start-up of only 1.1 second
• 2.7-inch Intelligent LCD
• Powerful battery life with the highly energy-efficient image processing LSI – Venus Engine V3 – which takes approximately 330 pictures during a single charge
• Intelligent Auto (iA) Mode: now with POWER Optical Image Stabilizer (O.I.S.), Hand-Shake Component, Face Recognition
• PHOTOfunSTUDIO 4.0 software included (view, edit and archive photos and videos

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Panasonic RP-SDW16G (16GB) and RP-SDW32G (32GB)

RP-SDW – GOLD Series SDHC Memory Cards with Class 10 Speed

Available in August

Key Features:

• The world’s first memory cards to adopt new speed class
  Meets requirements of high resolution, consecutive and large HD video shooting
• Continuously record (write) large amounts without missing any shots or writing stops
• Writing speed range of 10MB – 22MB per second, in combination with the intelligent controller function, is ideal for large volume data recording and transmission
• High-speed data transfer from card to PC (approximately 40% faster compared Class 4)
• Five models available: RP-SDW04G (4GB), RP-SDW04G (4GB – 2 Pack) / RP-SDW08G (8GB) / RP-SDW16G (16GB) / RP-SDW32G (32GB)

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