Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ47 12.1 MP Semi-SLR Camera (Black)

The latest entry in the Panasonic Lumix Series is the DMC-FZ47 digital camera. This point and shoot camera offers a hoard of features that make photography fascinating and fun. This Lumix camera is suitable for professional photographers who want to try a hand with digital point and shoot cameras. The DMC FZ-47 has a focal length of 4.5 - 105.8 mm and a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 25 - 600 mm.

This Panasonic digital camera comes with an amazing optical zoom of 24x and digital zoom up to 4x. The CCD sensor captures enhanced images with outstanding clarity at 12.1 megapixels resolution. Even at maximum zoom, you can shoot flawless images with vibrant colors. Theergonomic design facilitates easy access to all the control dials and buttons, which are quite helpful in the manual mode. The DMC-FZ47 comes with a grip which lets you comfortably hold the camera when shooting images and videos.

The Panasonic DMC camera weighs just 498 g with battery and memory card. The compact size makes this camera portable and handy. Equipped with the Venus Engine FHD processor, the DMC camera can capture Full HD videos with 1,920 x 1,080 pixels resolution at 25 fps. This camera supports 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 1:1 aspect ratios.

The Panasonic digital camera comes with an impressive 0.20 inch color EVF viewfinder. In addition to this, a3 inch TFT LCD Screen, with a resolution of 460,000 dots, provides a crystal clear display of images and videos captured.

Battery and Storage

The DMC digital camera has built-in storage of 70 MB. You can further increase the memory capacity in the Panasonic camera SD, SDHC or SDXC memory card. This point and shoot camera is powered by a rechargeable Lithium Ion battery pack which lets you capture up to 400 images on a single charge. You can transfer images and videos to your laptop or computer using a USB 2.0 cable. The HDMI connectivity lets you connect the FZ47 to HDTV and view images and videos in high quality.

Performance

The aperture setting controls the amount of light that falls on the image sensor when shooting images. The Panasonic DMC camera has an aperture ranging between f/2.8 - 5.2. This camera comes with Sonic Speed auto focus system which offers 23-area metering. The auto focus starts from 30 cm (W) and 200 cm (T) in Normal mode and in the Macro mode, auto focus starts from 1 cm (W) and 100 cm (T). The FZ47 has ISO ranging from 100 - 6400.

The Panasonics DMC digital camera has a shutter speed of 1/2000 - 60 seconds. With this shutter speed, you can capture exceptional images with high quality even when the subjects are in motion. You can shoot images even at night with the help of the built-in flash which has a range of 0.3 - 9.5 m (W) and 1 - 5.1 m (T).

Features

This camera comes loaded with features that enable you to capture good photographs even if you are not familiar with digital cameras. The variety of Scene Modes like Panorama Assist, Party, Candle Light and Sunset automatically adjust the camera's settings to meet lighting and other requirements in order to capture impeccable images. The POWER Optical Image Stabilizer ensures that none of images get blurred by shakes or vibrations.

The Panasonic camera comes with Face Recognition feature which can recognize faces and automatically adjusts the exposure and focus in order to capture flawless images. The self-timer feature provides a delay of 2 or 10 seconds before clicking a photograph giving you enough time to join your friends or family for a group photograph.

In the Continuous Mode you can capture images at 3.7 fps. This Panasonic digital camera is perfect for recording the most memorable moments of your life. The DMC-FZ47 can do wonders when you want to capture High Definition images and videos.