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12MP Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 Digital Camera Released

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by zevmo in Cameras, Technology

Panasonic released information about their new Lumix DMC-ZS7, a 12MP digital camera with automatic GPS geotagging (marks the picture with the location they were taken).

Some features are:

• 25mm Leica DC Vario-Elmar lens
• 12x optical zoom
• 3.0 inch LCD (460,000 dot resolution)
• 720p video (AVCHD Lite or QuickTime): AVCHD Lite almost doubles the recording time in HD quality compared with the Motion JPEG format
• SDHC and SDXC compatible
• 80-6400 ISO
• Battery Life: up to 340 images on a single charge
• Face Recognition: With new enhancements when compared to previous editions, Face Recognition allows users to register up to three different images for a person, helping to improve detection accuracy. Face detection is also included for up to 15 faces.
• Intelligent Scene Selector – Automatically selects whichever of 6 Scene Modes – Macro, Portrait, Scenery, Night Portrait, Night Scenery and newly added Sunset – best suits the shooting situation.
• Other iA Technologies: Intelligent Resolution and Intelligent Zoom, AF Tracking, Intelligent ISO Control and Intelligent Exposure.
• GPS Geotagging: can record the latitude and longitude in the EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data, while also displaying the location information real-time while shooting and during playback.  Has internal memory that stores information for more than 500,000 popular landmarks, covering 73 countries, and also automatically adjusts the time.

This looks like a solid contender.  I have tried their Ai technology on other models, and it is actually very good.  This year’s big feature for digital cameras is Geotagging.  As a person who has a photo library of over 30,000 pictures, there are many times I have wondered where and when a particular picture was taken.  Geotagging is an essential feature for any family vacation.  I look forward to testing out the accuracy on this one.

Pricing hasn’t been officially released, but the $399 figure is floating around the internets.

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