Panasonic Lumix DMC Digital Camera Photo Recovery Guide

The Lumix DMC-ZS7 picks up where last year's ZS3 left off, with a few additional features - you get manual and semi-manual shooting, you get an inbuilt GPS receiver. With the package rounded out with competent HD video recording, a good wide-angle lens, a decent 12x zoom and intelligent controls for aperture and exposure, what you get is one of the best, most reliable packages in a camera possible. The fact that this Panasonic Lumix digital camera is available to you at an affordable price point that hovers around $300 means you have a real winner on your hands. Let us go in a little deeper.

The Lumix DMC-ZS7 comes with a 14 megapixel sensor (even if you only actually get to use 12), and a bright enough 3 inch LCD. The function that is most likely to attract beginner photographers is the Intelligent Automatic. In most difficult situations - taking a picture of a sunset, taking pictures without the flash on - the Intelligent Automatic manages to adjust the exposure, sensitivity and other controls perfectly without any user input. In certain tricky situations, if you do desire to override the Intelligent Automatic function and make adjustments yourself, this model of Panasonic Lumix digital camera allows you to do it - which is more than can be said for last year's ZS3.

Is the ZS7 perfect? The flash, even if it is much improved over last year's model, certainly could be more powerful. As it is, low light shots with the flash on,sometimes appear slightly grainy. Especially so at the ISO 400 and 800 settings. The battery life could be better. Charge it all the way up, and it's probably not going to last you more than a day. The star feature of this camera (apart from the Leica lens of course), is the inbuilt GPS. Using the GPS turns out to be quite simple. It does take quite a while to retrieve the satellite information for your current location. Sometimes, it takes a minute, and sometimes it takes longer. It all depends on where you are and how much direct line of sight you have to the sky. For people who don't really need to have an exact location printed to their image files, this isn't really much of a deal. For those who do a lot of traveling all around, it can be quite a convenience to always know where exactly a picture was taken.

People usually pick a Panasonic Lumix digital camera for the great video capture that it offers. The ZS7 is no exception. It gives you 720p HD in AVCHD Lite and Motion JPEG. And you do get to use all of the cameras features while you shoot video - continuous autofocus, image stabilization and zoom. And you get to record sound while you zoom. People love the Panasonic Lumix digital camera for the freedom it allows them while shooting video; it certainly seems justified.
All round it has excellent picture quality and brilliant zoom. To be specific it has a 12.1 mega pixel lens and a 12x optical zoom which means it can create some stunning shots.

In the spirit of getting right to the good stuff, let's take a look at image quality. When all is said and done, image quality is the most important reason to buy or not to buy a digital camera.