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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS5 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom with 2.7-Inch LCD (Black) |  | Brand: Panasonic
Category: Photography
List Price: $279.95
Buy New: $239.88
as of 9/4/2010 19:35 PDT details
You Save: $40.07 (14%)
New (30) Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $209.00
Seller: J&R Music and Computer World
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 59
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Optical Zoom: 12
Display Size: 2.7
Maximum Focal Length: 49.2
Minimum Focal Length: 4.1
Maximum Resolution: 12
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6 x 7 x 2
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MPN: DMC-ZS5K
Model: DMC-ZS5K
UPC: 885170004184
EAN: 0885170004184
ASIN: B00395YA90
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The DMC-ZS5 features a powerful 12x optical zoom lens (35mm camera equivalent: 25-300mm) | | • | The 25mm ultra wide-angle lens has about twice the shooting area as a standard 35mm lens | | • | The Intelligent Zoom with the DMC-ZS5 extends the zoom ratio by approx. 1.3x maintaining the picture quality even combining a digital zoom | | • | The Sonic Speed AF system in the DMC-ZS5 has a maximum speed of approx. 0.35 second (wide-end) / 0.41 second (tele-end) for auto focusing | | • | The POWER O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) nearly doubles the hand-shake correction power of conventional MEGA O.I.S |
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Product Description
Panasonic DMC-ZS5 Digital Camera Features25mm Ultra Wide-angle 12x Optical Zoom LEICA DC Lens
The DMC-ZS5 features a 25mm ultra wide-angle* 12x optical zoom f/3.3-4.9 LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens (35mm camera equivalent: 25-300mm). Incorporating Panasonic's advanced optical technologies, this lens system is comprised of 10 elements in 8 groups, with 2 ED (Extra Low Dispersion) lenses and 2 aspherical lenses / 3 aspherical surfaces while preserving compactness. This lens system enables a remarkable 25 to 300mm range of focal length in this compact body. The powerful zoom of the DMC-ZS5can be freely controlled even when shooting motion images. Inheriting the fine rendering and outstanding quality of the LEICA ELMAR lens, this easy-to-carry camera delivers beautiful images any time, any place. * Converted to standard 35mm camera equivalent, at the maximum wide position. Powerful 12x Optical Zoom
The DMC-ZS5 features a powerful 12x optical zoom lens (35mm camera equivalent: 25-300mm). This gives you highly natural expressions from people and animals that you can't get close to. It is also available in movie recording with the mechanism designed to minimize the noise of auto focusing or zooming. And its slim, compact, pocket-sized body can easily go wherever you do for both everyday snapshots and traveling. 25mm Ultra Wide-angle Lens
The 25mm ultra wide-angle lens* has about twice the shooting area as a standard 35mm lens. This enhances all kinds of shooting situations, like when you're photographing a group of people at an indoor party or shooting a large structure or sweeping landscape while traveling. 16x Intelligent Zoom / 23.4x Extra Optical Zoom
Thanks to the newly incorporated Intelligent Resolution technology, the Intelligent Zoom is available with the DMC-ZS5 which extends the zoom ratio by approx. 1.3x maintaining the picture quality even combining a digital zoom. This means the 12x optical can virtuall
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 38
 PANASONIC ZS5 BEST IN CLASS? September 3, 2010
D. A. Paulon (Forest Lake, MN United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The question is whether the Panasonic ZS5 is the best in the 2010 class of point and shoot cameras. In my humble opinion it is. All of the reviews written against this camera, for example poor picture quality and not a real 12X Optical Zoom(you've got to be kidding), are simply not true. Even the favorable reviews are not necessarily true. I have been taking photos of some kind over 45 years and I have yet to find the "perfect" camera. Of course, I am not a professional, but I feel I am more than just the casual photographer.
I have tested the ZS5 camera against an older, but more expensive Casio Exlim 7.2 Megapixels and my Nikon D70. All of these cameras are very good, but I wanted to take a more versatile camera on our recent trip to Alaska. The picture quality was just simply outstanding. Were all of them perfect? Did all the 500 plus photos turn out with perfect contrast, sharpness, and focus? No, to both questions. But taking pictures of Orca whales on the move, which turned out very good, and a still picture over Resurrection Bay are quite different. The camera performed in excellent fashion when properly used. For example, in manual mode it took almost perfect pictures of the moon rising over the mountains on Resurrection Bay and in IA, the camera performed very well in the sunlight over Exit Glacier. However, you will get washed out colors, especially on white capped mountains when taking the picture into the light. But that is what most any camera would likely do. One review accurately noted that putting the camera in Scene mode would be very beneficial and I agree with this observation. And of course, Manual, Aperture, and Shutter speed modes are all there to learn and use to take better pictures by anyone.
The camera also did an excellent job with the true 12X optical zoom plus the 4X digital. Excellent quality if one holds the camera still.
As other reviews have noted, the ZS5 does an outstanding job taking macro zoom pictures. Taking video movies with the camera also showed excellent results; just don't move the camera too quickly.
I highly recommend the Pansonic ZS5 digital camera as an all around camera. To those who are still undecided as to which point and shoot camera to buy, you will not be disappointed with the Panasonic ZS5. For those who have purchased the camera, stay with it.
In conclusion, this is still a point and shoot digital camera. These cameras have come a long way in quality and price reduction. All of the major companies make great point and shoot cameras, but that is exactly what they are. These kinds of cameras have a place for good photography but are no match for a digital SLR, but again, when hiking up the Harding Ice Fields near Seward, Alaska, the Panasonic ZS5 was a perfect litte pocket camera to carry.
Amazing little camera that does it all! August 31, 2010
carolyn (bothell, WA USA)
I just received this camera and it's so intuitively designed, I was able to quickly discover its amazing ability to do everything from a wide screen format to a giant zoom to tight closeups - all from a small pocket size device. It works well in low light, easy to disable/enable flash, change settings, move into different modes, etc. Given the camera's size, the picture quality is also far better than I expected. Easy to download files from the card or the usb cable. The movie mode creates very high quality files. I will no longer be lugging around large cameras and lenses!
 Not Sure Of Picture Quality Yet August 28, 2010
L Wood
I purchased the Panasonic ZS5 camera in early August. I have taken a cpuple of hundred pictures and several videos with the camera. The camera is user friendly but I would like to be able to refer to the operation manual while learning the features of the camera. The Instruction manual comes on a CD in the form of an Adobe PFD file that is some 170 pages in length. It is not a handy reference item to carry with you, although I could print the info to carry around while learning the operation.
The camera has worked incredibley well in the video mode, although the file is quite large.
I have tried to use several of the options in the picture modes. The pictures look very good on the camera screen, but when downloaded to the computer and cropped to a standard picture size to be printed (5x7, 8x10 etc.),they are quite "noisey" or "grainy" in a lot of cases. They can be improved with photo editing software, but I am disapointed that they have to be worked on that much.
I have not printed any of the pictures yet. I think that the printed copies, after editing, will prove to be acceptable in most cases, but they do not appear to be as sharp and crisp as pictures fron my small Canon point and shoot or my Canon DSLR.
Further work, knowledge, and refinement on operation of the camera may correct all of the negatives I feel at this time. The 12x optical zoom is great in a small point and shoot camera. And it has a lot of desirable features. Pictures seem to just be a little soft in most cases.
If you enjoy customization, this is for you August 23, 2010
Dudeman
Perfect for the advanced photographer looking to customize his point and shoot experience.
Don't pick this camera up and use the "intelligent auto" function. If you do this, your photos won't come out the way you want, you'll have basically no customization, and you shelled out an extra $100+ when you could have bought a coolpix.
However, after taking my time learning this camera and all of its features, I find that I can take a nice, clear, zoomed, photo in almost any motion, brightness, color, hue, setting, scene, etc. I use the "A" or "scn" setting on almost all my photos. Also, the zoom is very, very nice.
Some of the photos look a little matted (2D) when enlarged, but for the most part the pictures come out very nice looking. Until you go to make posters of photos taken of moving targets in the dark, you'll be fine with this piece of technology.
I paired it with a sandisk class 10 30MB/s 8gb card and that allows me to use the "hi-speed burst" setting to take nearly 70 consecutive photos before outrunning my buffer.
The best: awesome image stabilization lets me take movies and pictures without shaking or blur even with shutter speeds as slow as 6sec without a tripod. Because of this, I rarely ever need the flash.
The worst: I keep leaving it at friend's houses. I guess others might find it not so appealing to have to read about their camera prior to optimal operation, but I liked that part.
 Horrible display image August 21, 2010
Wop36
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I would not recommend this camera. It had a horrible LCD display and the video it took was terrible quality. With all the great sub compact cameras out there I would strongly reccomend finding another one to buy.
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