Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 Digital Camera
Big Zoom + Small Camera = Wow! The zoom on the Lumix camera just keeps getting better. Experience the power of an incredible 18x optical zoom in a 8.1-megapixel camera that fits in the palm of your hand. From vast landscapes to super telephoto shots, the DMC-FZ18 gives you crisp, stunning images using a 28mm wide-angle Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens. For macro shots, the wide-angle setting lets you shoot all the way down to one centimeter from your subject, while the telephoto setting can be used up to one meter (3.28 feet) from your subject. With the Extended Optical Zoom function, zoom power is boosted to around 28.7x (in 3-megapixel resolution mode). Save Face With New Face Detection Technology You just showed your girlfriend all the pics you took at her birthday party. Everything looks great except her: in every picture she is blurry, hazy, and has red-eye. Not only that, but super-cute Jean Smilefeild looks perfect, as usual. If you want to save your relationship, we suggest you invest in the Lumix DMCFZ18. The new Face Detection function automatically chooses the optimal settings to make sure faces appear well-lit and in focus. This advanced technology can detect up to 15 faces in a scene, and will even automatically readjust the settings if their positions change. In Intelligent Auto Mode, the camera automatically begins focusing even before you press the shutter button, so you'll never miss an opportunity for a great shot. Believe us, your girlfriend will thank you. Get Into The Right Scene With Scene Detection Now you can be an excellent photographer at the push of a button minus all the hazing or having to wear matching jackets. With your Panasonic Lumix digital camera in Intelligent Auto Mode, the Intelligent Scene Selector will sense the ambient conditions and automatically select either the Scenery, Portrait, Macro, Night Portrait or Night Scenery mode accordingly. With the camera choosing the settings for you, you'll get beautiful results every time you shoot, no matter what the scene or subject. Finally, changing scenes won't make you sacrifice a thing. Prevent Blurry Shots The MEGA O.I.S. compensates for the blurring caused by hand-shake. It is now featured on the entire LUMIX range, and is highly popular with users around the world. Even slight hand-shake movement is accurately detected by a sampling frequency of 4000 times per second, and compensated to produce sharp, clear images. This is true, of course, for zooming and macro shots, which are especially susceptible to hand-shake, but it also lets you shoot in dimly lit rooms or uneven illumination, without a flash, to preserve the mood. In short, it lets anybody take beautiful, blur-free shots with ease. Intelligent ISO When the intelligent ISO control (I.I.C.) in the DMCFZ8 camera detects subject motion, it automatically raises the ISO setting and increases the shutter speed to prevent motion blur. On the other hand, when the subject is still and no movement is detected, it lets you take beautifully natural photos with a low ISO setting. Have you ever mistakenly used a high ISO setting to take a photo of a subject standing still? If so, you may remember the noisy, grainy result. Of, if you have tried snapping a moving subject at a low ISO setting, your photo was probably spoiled by motion blur. Intelligent ISO Control gives you stunning images with ease because there is no need for complicated settings. The new mode dial on the DMCFZ8 also lets you select I.ISO (Intelligent ISO Control) Mode. It allows the sensitivity to be raised to a maximum of ISO 1600, or to be set to a limit of ISO 400 or ISO 800. I.ISO Mode produces exactly the image quality that you intend. And, selecting High Sensitivity mode from among the Scene Modes allows the sensitivity to be raised all the way up to ISO 6400. This makes it possible to take sharp, blur-free shots of active childre