Panasonic DMC-TZ7

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The Panasonic TZ7 has been designed from the users perspective and ease of use.

The DMC-TZ7's LCD features a large 3.0-inch, 460,000-dot resolution, and a wide-viewing angle that lets you frame your shot in a variety of ways for both shooting and viewing. LUMIX's acclaimed Intelligent LCD function also automatically adjusts the brightness in 11 steps according to shooting conditions. This LCD provides sharp, clear images in virtually all shooting situations, ranging from nighttime to bright daylight scenes and from low-angle to high-angle shooting. It lets you share the fun of viewing images with family and friends.

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"I've recently bought this Lumix DMC TZ7 camera, an upgrade from the FX33. I am so far very impressed with the DMC FZ7. The monitor is nice and big and the picture is very clear. The functions seem good so far. The zoom is smooth and the choices of different quality video (from Jpeg to 720p HD) is an excellent improvement. The TZ7 also records sound in Dolby Stereo 2.0, which is not mentioned on the product description. Also, excellent is wide angle and being able to zoom whilst recording footage. It's also deceivingly small given the zoom it has.

I've noticed some things that were on the FX33 that are not included. There's no high angle view to alter the viewing angle of the LCD for when you take shots above your head. As I'm not the tallest person in the world I found this feature very helpful in crowded locations on the FX33, and it's disappointing to notice it's been left out. You can't also change the optical stabiliser whilst you are in shooting mode, something you could previous models.

You can't use digital zoom in IA mode but can in normal mode. You can't delete pictures when you are in shooting mode. You have to go to playback mode. The dial is as people have said before, a little easy to get out of place and lacks that comforting 'click' as it should lock into place. The battery performance is not so good and replacement batteries are very expensive (although I bought one as could not risk running out of power).

The power issue I think is unfortunately acting like a speed limit on video recording. Now memory cards can go to 16gb (and shortly beyond) so recording time from that aspect is excellent but when you go to HD mode the battery goes down quite quickly. So now recording time hinges on how many batteries you have rather than gigabytes! A big shame.

All in all, its certainly worth buying but when Panasonic have conquered additions on previous models that attract you only to leave them out on 'upgraded' models I can't help wonder why erode one's market dominance by choice! I hope the TZ8-9 has a better battery capacity and full blown 1080p HD."