Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7110 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Panasonic
• Model: TZ6 Silver
• Released on: 2009-02-12
• Dimensions: 2.20 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
The DMC-TZ6's 2.7-inch LCD has a total of 230,000 dots for high resolution. It features the intelligent LCD function. The Auto Power LCD function 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.

Intelligent Auto Mode features
Depending on the Panasonic Lumix model, IA mode uses up to six bundled technologies working perfectly together to provide the best possible shooting results every time.

AF Tracking
AF tracking then follows the selected subject throughout the frame, keeping them in focus – an excellent way to follow children, pets and other moving objects!

Intelligent Exposure
No more under or over exposed shots! Intelligent exposure corrects the parts of the image that are too dark or too bright, so images come out as naturally as you see them.

Mega OIS
Gyrosensors detect hand-shake and the optical image stabiliser lens shifts to compensate, helping prevent hand-shake blur. This system is completely optical – it does not affect the CCD or image processing – so you get sharp, clear images without deterioration.

choose from two modes: mode 1 remains on at all times for continuous compensation. Mode 2 starts working as soon as the shutter is released to achieve a greater effect.

Intelligent ISO control
With intelligent ISO control, your Lumix camera can adjust the ISO sensitivity if the subject moves as the shot is taken thereby preventing blurriness of the photo.

Intelligent Scene Selector
The intelligent scene selector automatically selects whichever of five scene modes - macro, portrait, scenery, night portrait, and night scenery – best suits your shooting situation.

Lumix Digital still cameras take a wide view
Although the difference between 35mm and 25mm equivalent lenses may not sound like a lot, the 25mm wide angle lens can capture a subject or scene with more than a two times wider frame from the same perspective as a conventional 35mm camera can achieve.

This extra range is especially useful when you are indoors where you can be restricted in your movements by walls, corners, or furniture trying to take a photo of the family or friends, or when you want to capture a much wider landscape.

12x optical zoom
Since distant objects do not conveniently come to you, Panasonic has equipped its digital still cameras with a high optical zoom.

For example, the modern Lumix TZ series features a 12x optical zoom leica dc lens (equivalent to 25-300mm on a conventional 35mm film camera) and enables you to zoom in or out magnifying distant subjects with ease.

Extra Optical Zoom
Many cameras complement their optical zoom ratio with digital zoom, where a portion of an image is ‘blown-up’ digitally to give the effect of a higher zoom. However, images taken with digital zoom become highly pixilated as they are merely digitally processed images rather than images delivered by a true optical zoom.

Aware of this factor, Panasonic has now introduced ‘extra optical zoom’ to its Lumix camera line-up. Extra optical zoom cleverly enables you to extend the optical zoom ratio with less image-quality deterioration compared to digital zoom. This function provides additional magnification, extending the zoom power by using the centre part of the CCD; compared with conventional digital zoom functions that directly enlarge the image data, it provides better image quality.

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Customer Reviews

Super smart camera
This little camera size belies the many features it possesses. Take time to read the manual a few times to find out all it can do - it's worth it. The picture quality in the 'Intelligent Auto' mode is fabulous and simple to use. The more enthusiastic photographers will appreciate the custom features. Normally I steer clear of anything other than Auto, but this camera makes it so easy to use more sophisticated features that I had a go and enjoyed playing about with my photos. The battery is light and long lasting. The optical zoom is better than that on many a much bigger and heavier camera. The auto focus captured a bird moving at speed and produced a lovely image, something my previous camera could not do. All in all it's a light as a basic compact but as good as the larger, more cumbersome cameras. The silver case is classy too.

A Good All-Rounder
I really like this camera! It is reasonably small and light and takes good pictures. I have put some images taken with my TZ6 at Hornsea on Share your own customer images. The main selling point of this camera is the 12x optical zoom lens. I was a bit wary at first that, at maximum zoom, camera shake could be an issue. But I find that it shouldn't be a problem so long as you turn the stabilizer on (mode 2 is most effective) force a reasonably fast shutter speed, get a good hold on the camera, and squeeze the shutter button gradually. The Intelligent ISO feature is a good way to force a fast shutter speed. It uses motion detection to determine what shutter speed would freeze the motion, and sets the ISO rating to suit.

There are excellent features on the Record menu, for instance there are two choices of image quality. You can set 3:2 or 16:9 aspect ratios and the camera will actually record those proportions, unlike other cameras that just give you guidelines on the screen. There is a wide choice of white balance, AF mode, and metering mode. There is a thing called I.Exposure which is supposed to give natural colours. I haven't tried that yet. You can take shots in burst mode. There is a choice of colour modes. You can even specify a minimum shutter speed. I have often been put out by cameras deciding that 1/30 sec or 1/15 sec is an acceptable shutter speed. Now I can set 1/60 sec minimum and those problems are a thing of the past!

There are also good features on the Playback menu, for instance normal play, slide show and category play. There is a very nifty feature to see your photos in a calendar view, shown on the day of the month they were taken. Then you've got title edit, text stamp and options to resize, trim, and level your images. This will be very useful for people who print direct from camera, or get their photos done at a shop. The TZ6 gives basic facilities for videos, but if you are really into taking videos best check out its sister product, the TZ7, which gives much more advanced facilities for videos. I am only into stills at the moment, so I saved myself a bit of cash with the TZ6 which gives all the facilities I need. An impressive package!

Best Camera Ever
This is by far the best camera I've ever had. Picture quality is amazing and it is really easy to use. I'd recommend this to anyone.