 The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP8 is a stylish ultra-compact digital camera with an effective resolution of twelve megapixels from a 1/2.33 RGB CCD image sensor, which Panasonic has coupled to a Leica DC Vario-Elmar branded 4.6x optical zoom lens with useful 28mm-equivalent wide angle. Importantly, the Panasonic FP8's lens features a true optical image stabilization system with which to fight blur caused by camera shake.
The DMC-FP8 POWER O.I.S. system is said to offer double the stabilizing power of the company's previous MEGA O.I.S. systems. The Panasonic FP8's lens has a two-step aperture that offers F3.3 and F10.0 at wide angle, or F5.9 and F18.0 at telephoto. The minimum focusing distance for the Panasonic DMC-FP8 is ordinarily 30 centimetres, but drops to just five centimetres at wide angle when switched to Macro mode.
Panasonic FP8 instead opting solely for a 2.7inch LCD display with 230,000 dot resolution on which images and videos are both framed and reviewed. Back-panel control buttons have a blue backlight that should help in low-light shooting, although the control labels aren't backlit so you will need to remember the function of each button. The Panasonic DMC-FP8 has an 11-point multi-area auto focus system which also includes a single-point high speed focusing mode.
Thee FP8 key features include its aforementioned 28mm wide-angle lens, HD movies of the 1280x720 pixels variety (with selectable 16:9 image ratio alongside 4:3 or 3:2), 2.7-inch 230k-dot LCD screen for framing in the absence of an optical viewfinder, ISO 80-1600 light sensitivity (extendable to ISO6400 via the fully auto High Sensitivity scene mode), Panasonic pioneering intelligent auto (iA) functionality whereby the camera recognises the subject before it and automatically adjusts settings, 'Power' OIS (optical image stabilization) said to be twice as effective at combating camera shake as Panasonic previous implementation of OIS (not that we noticed), plus continuous shooting up to 10 frames per second with the caveat of incremental resolution drops (otherwise it's 2.3fps).
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