Need a point and click camera

[Desmo]

OK, please bare in mind I'm no photographer, although I am starting to experiment a little bit. There aren't many manual options to play about with on the TZ3 but I still think it's a great little camera. If you can wait until your visit, you're more than welcome to have a play

Mumbles pier from the top of the hill...


Now to show you some zoom.
See the boat in the bottom left corner?


This is it at 10x Optical Zoom...


...and this is it at 40x Digital Zoom...


The pier entrance...


The gangway to the lifeboat launch...


The lifeboat launch...


The pier decking...

[Desmo]

The lighthouse...


Steps up the hill...


The benches with a lovely view


A wonky fountain (yes it was wonky, it wasn't me)...


A couple of Macro mode shots...




Lighthouse over the wall...


Piggy playing golf (and not ending up in A&E)...

[Desmo]

As you can see I've given quite a bit of variation in there so you'll get some idea of what's what

[Stan_Lite]

Thanks a lot for that dude - pictures look pretty good (seems to be a fair bit of concentration going on in the golf pic ).

To be honest, the lack of manual features is what I'm looking for. I bought an S7000 a while back thinking that I might use it to learn a bit more about stuff like that but I just don't have the patience for it. Now that it's buggered, I'm just looking for a good point and click jobbie, which takes good photos. I presume it has all the usual preset options (portrait, night, scenery etc.).

[Joe 90]

wow, rather glad you bought that camera!!!

i've been looking for a new point'n'shot recently and this one looks like one of the best around at the moment, thinkin of gettin it when i go to hong kong though....maybe there'll be a newer version by feb

anyway - i take it those shots, like the zoomed (10x and 40x) are all shot by hand, i.e. without a tripod or any stabaliser? - the lack of blur @ 40x seems massively impressive!!!

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by Flat Stanley

I presume it has all the usual preset options (portrait, night, scenery etc.).

Yes mate, there's loads on there. There are also two set on the mode selection wheel so you can select your favourite two really easily.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by |Show|

anyway - i take it those shots, like the zoomed (10x and 40x) are all shot by hand, i.e. without a tripod or any stabaliser? - the lack of blur @ 40x seems massively impressive!!!

It's got Mega O.I.S. (Panasonic's image stabilisation). Good thing too given the long zoom range.

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by |Show|

anyway - i take it those shots, like the zoomed (10x and 40x) are all shot by hand, i.e. without a tripod or any stabaliser? - the lack of blur @ 40x seems massively impressive!!!

The zoomed shots were just me leaning on a wall. The are two levels of image stabilization on this, and it's mighty impressive what it does. You can really see the difference when you switch it off. I've had no problem keeping even small items on full zoom in shot

[Joe 90]

cool

if you don't mind me asking, what did u pay for it?

just been looking at prices in HKD and its looking like they range from £170 - £200...
http://www.digitalrev.com/en/product...category_id=27

[Desmo]

Think it was £232 delivered. Somewhere around that anyway.