Product Description

With four aspherical lenses and six aspherical surfaces, including an EA (Extra High Refractive Index Aspherical) lens, Panasonic's DMC-FX35 Lumix digital camera features a 25 mm wide-angle Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens with a 4x optical zoom that's compact enough to fit in a slim, stylish body. This advanced lens system allows you to capture images with a sense of spatial breadth and depth that simply isn't possible with a 35 mm camera.Set the FX35 to iA mode and let the five intelligent auto functions team up to help prevent shooting errors. Intelligent exposure corrects lighting differences, so images come out just the way you see them; intelligent scene selector chooses the mode that best fits the situation; MEGA Optical Image Stabilization (O.I.S.) helps prevent blurring from hand-shake; intelligent ISO control helps prevent motion blur; and face detection helps produce clear portraits by optimizing the focus and exposure settings.The FX35 can record motion images with sensational 1280 x 720 HD resolution at 30 frames per second (fps). You can use the zoom, too, and capture some truly dramatic shots. When you're done shooting for the day, just connect the camera to an HDTV (optional component cable (DMW-HDC2) required) and you're ready to view your still shots and motion images in high-definition beauty.Watching a slideshow is a great way to enjoy your photos. This camera will even add background music, giving you a choice of natural, slow, swing or urban.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22465 in Camera & Photo
• Color: Blue
• Brand: Panasonic
• Model: DMC-FX35A
• Dimensions: 3.73" h x .87" w x 2.04" l, .28 pounds
• Display size: 2.5

Features

• 10.1-megapixel resolution captures enough detail for poster-sized prints
• 4x wide-angle optical zoom; Mega Optical Image Stabilized
• 2.5-inch Intelligent LCD screen; Face Detection
• Advanced Intelligent Auto mode
• Captures images to SD memory cards (not included)

Manufacturer Description

The new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35, complete with Panasonic’s first-ever 25mm ultra-wide-lens, features 10.1-megapixel resolution, 4x optical zoom, Panasonic’s Advanced Intelligent Auto mode, a Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens offering f2.8 brightness and the new fourth-generation high-performance image processing LSI, the Venus Engine IV.

To achieve a 25mm ultra-wide-angle lens in the slim design of the FX35, Panasonic developed a new, unevenly thick concave meniscus EA (Extra high refractive index Aspherical) lens. Working closely with Leica to meet their strict standards on lenses, the Lumix FX35’s lens compromises of seven elements in six groups, including four aspherical lenses with six aspherical surfaces.

Panasonic’s Advanced Intelligent Auto mode expands Panasonic’s system of intuitive technologies with the addition of Intelligent Exposure and Digital Red-eye Correction. Consisting of seven advanced and intuitive technologies, with Advanced Intelligent Auto mode, the consumer is able to rely on the advanced technologies happening automatically, without them changing any settings, thus taking high-quality photos is easy and effortless. Advanced Intelligent Auto mode includes:

• Intelligent Exposure With this new feature, photos will no longer be under- or over-exposed. Instead, the FX35, instantly analyze the framed image and adjusts the brightness in areas that are too dark because of dim lighting, backlighting or the use of the flash. The camera will automatically adjust the brightness accordingly.
• Digital Red-eye Correction This feature helps to eliminate the red-eye problem that sometimes results when taking flash shots at the night. Incorporated into the camera, the built-in flash emits a small preliminary flash before the main flash, detects red-eye and will digitally correct it.
• Mega O.I.S. Gyrosensors detect hand-shake and the lens system shifts to compensate, helping to prevent hand-shake from creating a blurry image.
• Intelligent ISO With Intelligent ISO, the FX35 can determine if the photo subject is moving and change the ISO setting and shutter speed accordingly, thus giving a blur-free photo.
• Intelligent Scene Selector Intelligent Scene Selector senses the ambient conditions, recognizes the shooting environment and will automatically select the appropriate scene mode from: Scenery, Portrait, Macro, Night Portrait or Night Scenery mode. This intuitive technology, helps the consumer use the most common scene modes that are built into the camera, but often go unused, without making any manual adjustments.
• Face Detection Face Detection detects faces anywhere in the frame, even if they are moving, and automatically chooses the optimal focus and exposure settings so portraits come out clear and crisp. Panasonic’s Face Detection detects up to 15 faces.
• Quick AF The Quick AF (auto focus) system starts focus on the subject by just pointing the camera to the subject, thus minimizing the AF time.

The FX35 also features a fourth-generation, high-performance image processing LSI, the Venus Engine IV. The Venus Engine IV produces higher-quality digital photos, as compared to the Venus Engine III predecessor, with an advanced signal processing system that produces a quick response time. The shutter release time lag is as short as 0.005 second, making it easier to capture sudden, spur-of-the-moment photo opportunities. In burst shooting mode, the DMC-FX35 can snap 2.5 shots per second at full resolution. Also, in High-Speed Burst shooting mode, it fires up to an incredible 6 shots-per-second, plus unlimited consecutive shooting, which lets you snap photos until the memory card is full.

You can view slideshows on the FX35’s 2.5-inch LCD, and can also add mood-appropriate music, choosing from natural, slow, urban or swing tunes. The Lumix FX35 incorporates an Intelligent LCD, which detects the lighting condition and controls the brightness level of the LCD in 11 fine steps, to offer a display with the most appropriate clarity in any situation. Users can also enjoy slideshows of captured images with music effects to match the mood of the images. Furthermore, the High Angle mode makes the LCD screen extremely easy to view when the camera is held high, such as when shooting over a crowd.

The Lumix FX35 is capable of recording 720p High Definition motion pictures and 1920 x 1080-pixel High Definition-ready photos that perfectly fit a wide-screen (16:9) HDTV. Panasonic Viera Plasma or LCD HDTVs that have an integrated SD memory card slot, so viewing still images is simple as inserting the SD card. In addition, with the newly added HD component output capability, consumers can enjoy watching still and motion images in stunning HD quality taken by simply taking the DMC-FX35 and connecting the camera via an optional component cable (DMW-HDC2).

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Customer Reviews

Blows my friend's Cannon's out of the water
I don't write reviews of everything I buy. I make reviews when I am especially disappointed, or when I'm really really happy about something.

This the best camera I have ever used. I love this camera!

The wide angle is really appreciated. You can get the shot you want every time.

Nice bright screen, with super-handy controls for common things like Timer Mode, Exposure, Flash on/off and Macro mode. The power switch is never hit by accident. The menus are fast and very well laid out.

Picture quality is excellent.

This camera has fast startup, 2.5 seconds after hitting the power switch, you are ready to take pictures. In addition, the image processing runs very fast, and your picture is ready for viewing so quickly that it is ready by the time you have a chance to put the switch in play mode.

The camera is very small and light, which is amazing considering how much of it must be dedicated to the Leica lens and the optical zoom mechanicals.

The on/off switch, mode selection and the quick menu buttons are a joy to use, very positive action with tactile feedback. Very well organized layout, making the common settings like flash/on/off/auto, and exposure control very easy to get to.

Macro mode works down to 5 cm. The camera makes good choices for exposure while in general purpose mode. However, you have lots of good choices for white balance and exposure control if you don't like the default. You can even point the camera at something white and get a custom white balance to make the pictures look correct no matter what the lighting is.

Battery life is excellent, I've taken hundreds of pictures and only recharged once. The display is nice and bright, outdoor use works well unless the sun is directly shining on the LCD.

The only thing I don't like about is all these silly modes you can put it in like 'Baby1' and 'Baby2'. Do you really need a separate camera mode for baby pictures? These modes go on and on, and it seems kind of nuts to me.

However, these can be ignored easily.

My family has late-model Nikon and Cannon Cameras. I wanted a wider-angle camera and this is the one I chose, after reading some positive comments on Trusted Reviews. This camera is better than the Nikons and Cannons in almost every way.

If you are deciding between this camera and different one, chose this one, it is a truly exceptional device.

great camera, except for the compression
Great Camera!!! The controls are in the right place, and work great. Quick and easy to switch to movie mode. Instead of a push button to turn camera on/off, it has a switch that clicks left or right. Its much better, doesn't get accidentally pushed by someone taking a picture for you or when you pass the camera to someone to show them slides. The same is true for the take/view pictures switch. its a great camera. EXCEPT IT HAS A PROBLEM WITH IMAGE QUALITY!!! The low quality mode is fine, and the images show a lot of compression if you zoom way in. In high quality mode the file sizes of the images double, but the compression is still there just as bad as low quality mode! Something wrong in the programming! In the end, the images are such high resolution, that I really diont mind the compression. Its not horrible. I just keep it in the low quality mode, and things look great for my purposes. Im a professional photographer by the way, and this is my fun camera.

By far the best camera I've found
I did a lot of cross-shopping, asking of friends, reading articles, etc., and I've owned a lot of digital cameras. In short, the lens is great, the picture quality is fantastic (both in resolution (10MP) and the actual image quality itself, due to the lens, processing, etc.) The video mode is very, very good (the best I've found in digital cameras even in the $700 range) especially when you shoot in HD resolution (1280x720, which is 720p HD). My friends are blown away by the video quality. Fast startup speed, great layout, very very long battery life. Nothing but good things to say about this camera.