Panasonic DMC-TZ18EB-K LUMIX Super Zoom Digital Camera

This Panasonic DMC-TZ18 has a feature named, 'intelligent auto still' this feature has a number of intelligent functions designed to maximize the clarity of your photographs, by changing settings automatically depending on what is been photographed and in what conditions. This includes face recognition, it will store in its memory up to 6 different faces, and will recognize them, whenever in the frame. As soon as these stored faces are seen by the camera, automatic adjustments will optimize the focus and exposure on the face, ensuring all of your family and friends photo albums are crisp and clear. In adittion to this, low light conditions are no longer a chore.

The Intelligent ISO control will increase or lower the ISO of the image in conjunction with the lighting conditions. Increasing ISO allows the camera to increase the shutter speed, meaning action shots will be clearer and will remove, movement blurring, or camera shake. The auto focus tracking means you will never miss a shot. When something is moving towards or away from the camera, it is always hard to keep the subject in focus when you are trying to take a photograph this AF tracking will keep yor main subject in focus at all times. Along side these function, the intelligent exposure settings will ensure, there is an even exposure across a whole scene, making sure the best possible photograph is captured even if there is extreme light or intense shadow.

Now with this Panasonic DMC-TZ18 you dont even have to worry about whether or not you have selected the correct scene mode. With different options, for macro, portrait, landscape the camera will identify the scene and adjust correspondingly giving you the best result.

As well as having an intelligent auto system for taking photographs, this Panasonic DMC-TZ18 has Intelligent Auto HD Movie, meaning all of the HD videos you caputre will be adjusted and corrected by the cameras iA functions.

You can enjoy full High Definition home movies with this Panasonic DMC-TZ18. Achieve stunning image quality and superb clarity. Only the latest LUMIX cameras feature AVCHD 50i, which can record high definition motion pictures 1280 x 720. Recording in the AVCHD lite format also allows for long recording times and high compatability with a range of audio-visual equipment.

To ensure supreme quality, Panasonic use LEICA lenses in all of their digital Cameras. These superp optics will bring the highest quality and best performance. Panasonic have made sure the up-most quality is present throughout their cameras, and they can do this, because the LEICA lenses are manufactured by Panasonic themselves.

This Panasonic DMC-TZ18 uses a 24mm wide angle DC LEICA lens meaning you can get much more in the frame, over a regular 35mm. Whilst not losing any quality in the image, the picture willl remain sharp, from centre to the edge of the frame.

If you are felling particually creative, this Panasonic DMC-TZ18 gives you access to full manual controls. This is done by selecting which manual mode you want to use, be it shutter priority, where you can vary the length of time in which the shutter is open, giving for either fast action shots with clean sharp images, or using a longer shutter speed to show great motion blurring. In this mode, the camera will select the aperture automatically so it gives you 1 less thing to worry about. Similar to the Aperture priority where the roles are reversed, whilst the camera automatically sets your shutter speed, you can open up the aperture to a maximum of F3.3 to give great drop off, so you can de-focus the background, whilst keeping a narrow DOF (Depth Of Field). On the other hand you could reduce the aperture down by increasing the F number, so the DOF increases and you can get more in focus. If you want even more control, you can go into full Manual settings, so you can control everything to get the expsure you want.

Worried tht you are not stead enough to take pictures in Low Light? This Panasonic DMC-TZ18 digital camera has Power O.I.S (optical imiage stabilization) will counter the effects of hand shake, to produce clear blur-free images. This system will compensate for even the slightest of camera movements.

Also Known As:
DMC-TZ18, DMCTZ18, TZ18, DMC-TZ18EB-K, DMC-TZ18EBK, DMCTZ18EBK, , DMCTZ18EB