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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4 Digital Camera

Panasonic DMC-TZ4

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Key Features of the Panasonic DMC-TZ4 :
  • Ultra compact body with 8.1 Megapixel CCD Resolution.
  • 28mm/f3.3 wide-angle Leica DC lens with long 10X Zoom.
  • Large 2.5" High Resolution 230K pixel LCD
  • Advanced Optical Image Stabilization and Intelligent ISO
  • Autofocus/auto exposure Face Detection
  • HD component output for still picture playback on HDTVs (not HD Video, which is only available on DMC-TZ5 model)
  • Digital Red-eye Correction
The 8.1-megapixel Panasonic DMC-TZ4 packs a 28mm wide-angle, 10x optical zoom Leica DC lens in a compact design, ideal for the active photographer who needs a versatile camera. By combining a 28mm wide-angle lens, which lets you capture a wider-framed shot when compared to a traditional 35mm camera, with the TZ-Series 10x optical zoom, you're empowered to take expanded shots, both wide and far. Panasonic's Intelligent Auto technologies are also expanded, with new Intelligent Exposure and Digital Red-eye Correction.

With the addition of Intelligent Exposure and Digital Red-eye Correction, Panasonic’s Advanced Intelligent Auto mode consists of seven intuitive technologies, all which are specifically designed to help make photo-taking an enjoyable and seamless process unnoticed by the consumer -- helping them to take clear photos. When in Advanced Intelligent Auto mode, the following technologies all operate automatically; no settings need to be manually changed.

Also new to the TZ4 is the Venus Engine IV, Panasonic’s new high-performance image processing LSI. The Venus Engine IV produces higher-quality pictures than its predecessor, the Venus Engine III, by using a more advanced signal processing system. The new Venus Engine IV also improves noise reduction, elevates the detection accuracy and corrective effects in both Mega O.I.S. and Intelligent ISO and reduces the shutter release time lag. Both models also incorporate Intelligent LCD, which detects the lighting condition and controls the brightness level of the LCD in 11 fine steps, to offer optimal clarity in any situation, whether dark or light; indoors or outdoors. With a newly developed 230,000-dot high resolution in the TZ4’s 2.5-inch LCD, photos can be easily viewed on the display, regardless of the shooting environment.

The TZ4 is also capable of recording 1920 x 1080-pixel high-definition motion pictures, and because of its support of SD memory cards, is easily compatible with Panasonic Viera plasma HDTVs that have an integrated SD memory card slot, so viewing photos is simple. Also, with the newly added HD component output capability, users can also connect the TZ4 to an HDTV and watch a slideshow complete with mood-appropriate music, choosing from natural, slow, urban and swing.

Lumix DMC-TZ4A Highlights

Intelligent Exposure With this new feature, photos will no longer be under- or over-exposed. Instead, the TZ4 instantly analyzes the framed image and adjusts the brightness in areas that are too dark because of dim lighting, backlighting or the use of the flash. The camera will automatically adjust the brightness accordingly.

Digital Red-eye Correction This feature helps to eliminate the red-eye problem that sometimes results when taking flash shots at the night. Incorporated into the built-in flash, the camera emits a small preliminary flash before the main flash, detects red-eye and will digitally correct it.

Mega O.I.S. Gyrosensors detect hand-shake and the lens system shifts to compensate, helping to prevent hand-shake from creating a blurry image.

Intelligent ISO With Intelligent ISO, the TZ4 can determine if the photo subject is moving and change the ISO setting and shutter speed accordingly, thus giving a blur-free photo.

Intelligent Scene Selector Intelligent Scene Selector senses the ambient conditions, recognizes the shooting environment and will automatically select the appropriate scene mode from: Scenery, Portrait, Macro, Night Portrait or Night Scenery mode. This intuitive technology, helps you use the most common scene modes that are built into the camera, but often go unused, without making any manual adjustments.

Face Detection Panasonic’s Face Detection detects faces anywhere in the frame and automatically chooses the optimal focus and exposure settings so portraits come out clear and crisp. Detecting up to 15 faces, Panasonic’s Face Detection can even track a face if the subject is moving.

Continuous AF The Continuous AF (auto focus) system maintains focus on the subject even without pressing a shutter button halfway, thus minimizing the AF time.



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Megapixels: 7.1 7.1 7.1 8.1
Optical Zoom: 7 X 10 X 10 X 10 X
Max Res: 3072 x 2304 3072 x 2304 3072 x 2304 3264 x 2448
LCD Screen: 2.5 " 2.0 " indoor/outdoor 2.5 " 2.5 "
Digital zoom: 4x 5X Yes, 4.8 x Yes, up to 4x
Image stabilizer: Yes, Sensor shift & Lens No No Yes, Lens
Media Card: SD/MMC card + Internal SD/MMC card + Internal xD Picture Card SD/MMC/SDHC card + Internal
Battery: Lithium-Ion rechargeable AA (2) batteries (NiMH recommended) AA (4) batteries (NiMH recommended) Lithium-Ion rechargeable & charger
Weight (with batteries): 190 g (6.7 oz) 360 g (12.7 oz) 406 g (14.3 oz) 245 g (8.6 oz)
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Panasonic DMC-TZ4 User Reviews

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3
Out of 5
Good camera for a good price
- Reviewd on: 2009-01-02 By: C. Gallagher
This isn't a replacement for the quality of a digital SLR, but it does take good photographs, and it's light and easy to use. The wide angle lens results in the "dog nose" effect, if you're taking pictures of people (you'll notice that most of the customer images are NOT of people...there's a good reason for this!), so if you are buying this to take pictures of your kids, you might want to consider something else. Also, VERY IMPORTANT, the rechargeable battery (and charger) is included...I almost bought it separately, so I'm glad I didn't.

5
Out of 5
Great Camera with a Leica Lens
- Reviewd on: 2008-12-27 By: J. VanDenburgh
I am a professional photographer, but sometimes it is a pain carrying around an SLR. I chose this camera for the Leica lens (considered among the best optics), and the 10X optical zoom mainly, but it has many other features that I was very impressed with. The camera has a lot of extra features, such as face detection Auto Focusing that works very well. Also the intelligent Auto feature works great and you don't have to adjust anything on the camera to get a great photograph. The video mode is also very useful and impressive, allowing 15 min of video at a time at the highest resolution (2 megapixel at 16:9 ratio) until your card is full. I have an 8gb card and could do videos until the battery runs out. The best thing about this camera is that it works best on automatic, with great exposure, white balance, and fill flash. The only negative thing I have to say about the camera is to be careful of getting your finger in the way of the flash as it is next to the grip. Other than that, this is a great camera and I am very happy with the purchase.

5
Out of 5
Great camera for this average guy
- Reviewd on: 2008-12-25 By: W. Benton
I'm not a camera expert, just the dad of a 5 year old that wants to capture great memories. It's easy to use, compact, and takes great pictures. The processor and it's capabilities is amazing - from automatically detecting light levels so you don't get dark photos (I just took a great picture of my son, in the dark, in bed sleeping) to finding faces the picture and focusing on them correctly. It also has a great feature allowing the user to take continuous photos with very little delay.

4
Out of 5
Mega O.I.S Is Great. OK Pics
- Reviewd on: 2008-12-23 By: M. Siau
I bought this camera looking for something simple. I sell on eBay and just wanted something easy that took good pics, especially close ups and inside. In the iA mode it does not take good pics inside. In fact, I have tried playing with the settings but still no luck. Many of my pics have a red tint. I have tried different lighting conditions too. Inside, in my experience only, it works best depending on the flash. That being said it leaves shadows on my ebay items and yes, I try using stand alone lighting. I will say the image stabilization is wonderful! That's why I bumped it up to 4 stars as opposed to 3. To use the macro mode place the camera close to the object and try not to use the zoom. Also, outside it takes nice, sharp pics. In my totally uneducated opinion I would suggest someone looking for a camera to take a lot of indoor pics to try something else. This camera is nice if you're mainly taking outside pics. One really cool feature of this camera is the ability to zoom while taking video. I do believe the value for what I paid was good ($160) and Amazon shipped it quickly although they should have put some filler in the shipping box so the box inside didn't bounce around. I've only had it a few days and if I figure out maybe I'm doing something wrong or find settings that correct the "red" problem I will certainly come back and update.

5
Out of 5
Great Point and shoot
- Reviewd on: 2008-12-12 By: Gabriel J. Caballero Luna
This camera is fantastic i have been using it for 10 days now and the photos have come out great.
In many different conditions (snow, rain, blue skies, night mode or movement) the Ia setting has worked very well the face recognition is allso very good.
The best thing of the camera off course the 10x zoom fitted in such a small camera.