Comments on: Panasonic updates its Lumix range with six new point-and-shoot cameras

By: mohamed hamid

mohamed hamid — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:15:00 +0000

Mobilre phone anufactureres have the ability to make phones with optical zooming cameras.read about this old monster from samsung.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_g810-2257.php

By: GSMArena

GSMArena — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:33:00 +0000

It’s quite simple actually. First of all, even the slimmest camera is not as slim as some of the slimmer phones out there. Also if you notice, the super slim cameras always have a wide body because the components are spread out since there is no space to stack them. Because the way cameras are held this is not a problem (in fact the wider the better) but you can’t do that with a phone because you need to hold it with one hand and also operate it with your thumb, so it can’t be too wide.

And lastly, a camera only has camera components inside to worry about. A phone has camera components, radio units and all sorts of things, which it has to fit in a smaller space. This is why we can’t have the large sensors found on cameras or the large lenses or the optical zoom. The few phones that do have optical zoom are quite thick and also quite heavy.

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Prasad

By: Law

Law — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:38:00 +0000

Dam 20x zoom wow. I was planning to get tz20. Now this beast is here. Perfect timing

By: tata

tata — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000

nice. I always love lumix camera.

By: Anikolov3

Anikolov3 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:53:00 +0000

Nice.

By: Cycnus

Cycnus — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:41:00 +0000

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This ZS15 and TS4 have 4x and 4.6x optical zoom. Maybe phone manufacture can create something like 2.5x zoon and still below 1 cm thin.

or maybe some just create something like motorola razr, thin with a hump. and 4x optical zoom, i bet it will kick some ass.

By: Zeus

Zeus — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:02:00 +0000

I agree. If sensor technology and post processing algorithms get a lot better for phones, so will they for standalone cameras. I expect standalone point-and-shoot cameras to lose popularity over the net 5 years, but not be obsolete in any way.

By: Zeus

Zeus — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:59:00 +0000

I have an older version of that camera (TZ-20) and they’re not 9 mm thin :) Yes, still extremely thin when you consider the amount of zoom they have, but fitting a motorised lens set-up into a modern smartphone body is quite hard.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000

I disagree with Sony, first as much as smart phones are getting really good. They can never be better than a well sorted point and shoot. My Panasonic DMC-FS7 takes better shots than my sisters Nokia N8. Furthermore, any smartphone with a decent camera is a lot more than what most avarage people can afford.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:27:00 +0000

Panasonic make perhaps the finest Point and Shoot cameras around.