digital photo printing

Digital cameras

Camcorders

Accessories

Brands

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 10.1 MP Digital Camera with 12x Wide Angle MEGA Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3 inch LCD (Black)

Check our low price

Product Description The ZS3 records HD motion images at a smooth 60 frames per second with 1280 x 720-pixel resolution. It uses the AVCHD (MPEG-4/H.264) format, via AVCHD lite, which stores less data than other formats and thus lets you shoot more minutes of HD motion images before running out of memory.Just set the camera to iA mode, aim and shoot. The camera does all the rest. It automatically determines the most suitable scene mode and helps correct blurring, focus, and brightness problems. With iA mode, it's easy to get beautiful, clear results. In the ZS3, iA mode cannot be used when shooting motion images.The ZS3 packs a LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens with 12x optical zoom into a compact body. This versatile photographic tool lets you shoot everything from sweeping vistas at the 25mm wide-angle setting to dynamic 300mm telephoto shots. And the lens system's exquisite rendering ability lets you capture even the subtle nuances of the sights and scenes in your travels. Reviews I decided to return this camera after spending a week with it on my vacation to Florida. I wanted to get a point and shoot with decent video recording. Those flip video HD cameras are nice and small, but no optical zoom, so I went with this instead. The video recording only worked half of the time. I kept getting errors saying the speed of my card was too slow and it would stop recording. I was using an 8gb Transcend class 6 sdhc card. Very disappointed. This is an absolutely fabulous camera. I finally got around to purchasing it when it dipped below $240. The pictures are extremely detailed. Like many other posters have said, you can even zoom in while taking 720p HD video. I won't go on and on about features as many other posters have said that, but I did buy these accessories with the camera and they all go perfectly together. Carrying Case: Lowepro Ridge 30 Camera Case (Black) Fits perfectly. SDHC Memory Card: Transcend 8 GB Class 6 SDHC Flash Memory Card TS8GSDHC6E [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] Also of note, *I am using this camera in South Korea, and the battery charger is 110V~240V compatible.* So it's good for international charging. This camera is an amazing one at that, it takes some pretty darn good pictures if i say so myself. it may just be the photogropher in this case me, but i think it has to do with the capabilities of this camera. 12x zoom and 10 MP equals great photos.!!!11 I use my camera for the first on a quick trip to New York City, took several pictures and love it! Easy to use, the picture and video quality was fantastic. I am very pleased with this camera, good value for all the features it has. It's too bad that they have bundled this great working camera with rip off software. And: DO NOT BUY THE "FREQUENTLY BOUGHT TOGETHER" package. If you use an SD card that's less than a "class 7" (read "twice as expensive") your video stops working! Much less expensive SD cards were just fine to shoot video on every other camera I've owned at this price point. This camera has just about the worst written manual I've ever seen. So good luck trying to figure out how to do simple things like setting your own exposure or white balancing so everything doesn't come out orange, if the camera misreads the light. The files record onto the camera with no file type extension (.jpg, .gif). So if you just download the pictures to your computer, you have to pick a program every time you open a file, or use their "PhotoFunStudio" software. Fun, huh? For one thing, this package comes with an installation by ArcSoft. I have no idea if the ArcSoft software has any practical function. All it's been to me is a trojan horse virus. Every time a user opens their profile on our computer, the loading stops dead to load an advertisement from ArcSoft to upgrade their software for money. Now my computer is less useful to me so Panasonic can benefit from a partnership with ArcSoft. Just because this software comes from a corporation, doesn't mean this is not a THEFT OF SERVICE ATTACK on my computer. Now, my daughter likes using the video mode...except the video files this camera produces are .mts files. I don't know about anyone else's computer, but I have XP Media OS and I can't find a program on my PC to open those with. So: you buy a camera with lots of auto features, but is too complex to use without a lot of research. The enclosed software adds nothing to your ability manage pictures, but does transfer malicious software to your PC. The manual is impossible, the video files are in a format that is not easy to work with. Is this what you want from a point and shoot?