Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Panasonic
• Model: FS15 Black
• Released on: 2009-02-12

Features

• 5x Optical Zoom
• 29mm Wide-angle LEICA DC Lens
• AF Tracking & Dedicated iA Button
• SD Memory Card Slot
• Megapixels: 12.1

Manufacturer's Description
29mm Wide-angle 5x Optical Zoom LEICA DC Lens and iA (Intelligent Auto) Mode with AF Tracking. Press the iA button, aim, and shoot. With the FS25/15, taking great photos is that easy. iA mode activates six detection and correction functions – MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) to compensate hand-shake, Intelligent ISO Control to detect subject movement, Face Detection AF/AE to focus on faces in the frame and remove unwanted red-eye, Intelligent Scene Selector to select the optimal scene mode automatically, Intelligent Exposure to correct the brightness level, and AF Tracking to continually track a moving subject and keep it in focus.

The DMC-FS15 features a 29mm wide-angle 5x optical zoom LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens (35mm film camera equivalent: 29-145mm). Renowned in the film camera world for its superb performance and compact size, the LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens inherits its outstanding quality and form. The 29mm wide-angle lens can be used to capture groups of people at parties and other indoor scenes, as well as magnificent architectural structures and landscapes. The 5x optical zoom allows you to capture distant subjects without degrading image quality.

The DMC-FS15’s 2.7-inch LCD has a total of 230,000 dots for high resolution. It features the Intelligent LCD function, which increases the backlight brightness in 11 steps according to the ambient light intensity. At the highest of these 11 steps, the LCD backlight becomes approx. 1.4 times brighter than normal. This makes both shooting and viewing photos easier and more convenient.

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Customer Reviews

Simply Fantastic
Superb build quality, appearance, takes great pictures, quick to start, excellent zoom, great colours, clarity, easy to operate and so on. Suitable to novices and professionals. A bit pricey at the moment but price would come down when competition wakes up to this beauty.

Brilliant camera! Worth the money and more!
I bought this camera for my recent trip to South Africa as one that I wouldn't mind too much if I lost it, as opposed to my more expensive Lumix. I have to say, I'd never want to lose this camera! It worked amazingly in the light conditions and the zoom is brilliant, producing great, clear photos. Definitely the camera to get if you want a compact but useable camera.

Great all rounder
I work outdoors and I use a camera to take pictures from a macro to landscape and everything inbetween scale to record the area that I cover. While I'd love to have an SLR (and if you really want to take the best pics then an SLR is what you really need) this camera has performed exceedingly well, the colour is great - way better than my old cannon compact (which was a cracking little camera in it's own right, but cannon seem to be on holiday, as far as producing the best cameras is concerned, at the mo), I'd be really suprised to find another camera at this price that is such a good all-rounder. I love my macro and the macro on this perfoms really well, especially with the zoom macro which means I can take pics of even smaller stuff (admitidly the zoom macro does start to loose a bit of quality but thats only me being a perfectionist - I really don't think you'll get better else where unless you spend substaintially more money). And then the landscape pics - great colour and cloud detail when the skys are dark!

The one thing that I was dissapointed at is the complete over exposure of anyting that is white when the light conditions are bright, or the sun is out. I have a white dog and when the sun is out the white on her is totally burnt out she becomes just a white thing in the picture (as with bright clouds and waterfalls (white-water)- definately need to play with the exposure settings, haven't figured how to get the waterfalls to not burn out on a bright day yet). However I will forgive the camera this as I have still managed to get really stunning pictures of my dog when the light conditions have been better.

The only thing left to find out is if it will stand up to the same use and abuse my old cannon took - although I have invested in a covering for this one - do have a look at the "Always on Compact Camera Wrap". If you're like me and want the camera to hand ASAP without having the faff of getting it out of an often bulky case (compared to this all cases are bulky!) then this is a great bit of kit.

Would definately recomend this camera.