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Colour	Black	Silver	Black	Red	Black	Black
Digital Zoom	4x	4x	10x	4x	4x	10x
Screen Size	2.7 inches	3 inches	2.7 inches	2.7 inches	3 inches	3 inches
Effective Still Resolution (in Megapixels)	12.1 megapixels	12.1	20.1	20.5 megapixels	20.2 megapixels	20.1 megapixels
Has Image Stabilization	Yes	—	Yes	—	Yes	—
Item Dimensions	10.33 x 3.26 x 5.96 cm	11.07 x 3.44 x 6.46 cm	2.08 x 9.68 x 5.55 cm	9.5 x 5.8 x 2.4 cm	9.7 x 2.8 x 5.5 cm	11.05 x 6.45 x 4.43 cm
Item Weight	191 grams	243 grams	109 grams	130 grams	180 grams	310.01 grams
Maximum Focal Length (in millimetre)	300 millimetres	720 millimetres	26 millimetres	40	625 millimetres	250 millimetres
Minimum Focal Length (in millimetre)	25 millimetres	24 millimetres	4.6 millimetres	5	25 millimetres	25 millimetres
Model Year	2010	2015	2014	—	2016	2019
Optical Sensor Resolution	12.1 megapixels	12	20.1 megapixels	20 megapixels	20.2 megapixels	20.1 megapixels
Size of the Optical Sensor	1/2.33''	—	1/2.3	1/2.3'	1/2.3 type back-illuminated CMOS	—
Optical Zoom	12x	3x	5x	8x	25x	10x
Removable Memory	Secure Digital Card, Secure Digital Card	—	Memory Stick, Secure Digital Card	Secure Digital Card	SDHC	—
Special Features	Integrated Microphone	Video Recording	Serial Shot Mode	—	—	Video Recording

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Colour Name:Black

Technical Details

Package dimensions

‎16.8 x 14 x 6.4 centimetres

Package Weight

‎1.37 Pounds

Item dimensions L x W x H

‎10.3 x 3.3 x 6 centimetres

Item Weight

‎191 Grams

Brand

‎Panasonic

Colour

‎Black

Has image stabilisation

‎Yes

Max Focal Length

‎300 Millimetres

Min Focal Length

‎25 Millimetres

Model year

‎2010

Part number

‎DMC-TZ8EB-K

Zoom Type

‎Optical Zoom

Effective still resolution

‎12.1 MP

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ASIN

B0031MA10I

Item model number

DMC-TZ8EB-K

Batteries

1 Product Specific batteries required.

Date First Available

1 July 2006

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Successor to the hugely popular DMC-TZ6, Panasonic's new DMC-TZ8 with a 25mm ultra wide angle and powerful 12x optical zoom in a compact body continues to push the boundaries, offering consumers the perfect travel companion. This 12.1 megapixel powerhouse performer TZ8 includes a multitude of features, such as Intelligent Resolution Technology and manual exposure, whilst remaining pocket sized to ensure portability and convenience.

Pocket Sized Power

The TZ8 features a high-quality LEICA DC VARIO ELMAR 25mm ultra-wide-angle lens with a 12x optical zoom. A lens like this, with a range from 25mm to 300mm , is almost inconceivable in such a small, lightweight camera.

The new model has a 14.5-megapixel CCD and shoots with up to 12.1-megapixel resolution. This is because the CCD on the TZ8 is multi-aspect and can reproduce images shot with the lens set from 25mm to 300mm in any of three aspect ratios - 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9 - so you can always capture dynamic, richly expressive shots with a wide perspective. The Multi Aspect mode lets you to take an image in all three aspect ratios simultaneously then choose the one that best suits your scene after shooting.

New Intelligent Resolution Technology

The high-speed, high-performance Venus Engine VI has been re-engineered to compile the new image processing technology "Intelligent Resolution". It enables the recording of beautiful photos and high-definition movies with higher quality signal processing.

Power O.I.S to Combat Handshake

Following in the footsteps of the award winning TZ6, the TZ8 of course includes Panasonic's iA (Intelligent Auto) mode - a hallmark of Lumix cameras - featuring Face Recognition. AF Tracking, Intelligent ISO Control, Intelligent Scene Selector and Intelligent Exposure. Additionally, the new model also features new POWER O.I.S (Optical Image Stabilizer) which features a double the suppression power compared to the conventional image stabilization system, MEGA O.I.S.

Featuring Manual Exposure

Building on the success of the hugely popular DMC-TZ6, the TZ8 goes one step further to offer manual control for advanced expressive shooting. It has A(Aperture Priority) / S(Shutter Speed Priority) / M(Manual Exposure) modes for step up users to enjoy the creative shots depending on the subject or the scene by controlling the shutter speed and aperture. Each of these modes and iA mode can be quickly set by the mode dial on the top of the camera unit.

Bright and Beautiful Motion Pictures

Not only can you capture beautiful still images - the TZ8 also offers HD movie (1280 x 720) Recording in Motion JPEG at 30 fps - ensuring no matter what your special moment, the TZ8 can capture it.In addition to the conventional SD/SDHC Memory Card, the DMC-TZ8 accepts next-generation SD format SDXC (SD eXtended Capacity), that features high potential in both capacity and data transfer speed. The DMC-TZ8 is compatible with Windows 7 and includes software PHOTOfunSTUDIO 5.0 for your convenience.

Perfect for all occasions, the small and stylish sized DMC-TZ8 offers a wealth of features and effortlessly slips into your pocket ensuring you are ready for any photographic occasion. With an extended battery life of approximately 340 pictures (CIPA) you can be sure you'll never miss that perfect shot - truly making the TZ8 your perfect travelling companion.

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Skinky

Picture perfect

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2010

Colour Name: BlackVerified Purchase

Did a lot of research before buying this camera and got a little confused in the process. Eventually focused on what this camera gives over my previous Nikon Coolpix L11 (6mp 4X Optical zoom). That is to say, Better image quality, a big Zoom, more pixels to crop the pic without loosing detail, Image stabiliser cos I haven't the steadiest hand and quick, accurate focusing, quick start up. What I got is all that and more. The view screen is gorgeous, big, fairly bright with incredible fine detail and colours. This is a very sophisticated camera, capable of almost infinite adjustment and hidden functionality like face recognition to allow the focus to follow, say, John, moving in a crowd!!!!! How cool is that. You could spend months learning all its intricacies but equally, as I did, you can start shooting in Full, intuitive, (it knows you're photographing a flower) Auto, and it all comes out perfectly....well 90% of the time. Any niggles, well yes, It's what I do best. It bugs me a bit having to take the battery out to charge it. I still can't believe I can't just plug it into, say my USB or even a wall socket charger like my phone. Having said that the battery seems to last out the day pretty well. Also, I mentioned the View screen, Fairly bright, yes, but not enough in every situation and I would have liked a viewfinder on the odd occasion when the sun is too bright to see the screen. But as they say, you can't have everything, although Panasonic have given it a damn good try.

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Scooter

Brilliant camera

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2011

Colour Name: BlackVerified Purchase

What a brilliant camera Panasonic has made when making the TZ8, it is by far the best digital camera i have ever owned and i am a photography enthusiast and have been for many years but i prefer to take pictures on something small that i can fit into my pocket rather than carrying a big heavy DSLR around with me.

At first i was going to go for the TZ10 instead, but i did not need the GPS feature that the TZ10 has, and it uses up the battery faster, and nor did i need the video recording format to be AVCHD Lite which i beleive to be pretty much the only differences between the TZ8 and the TZ10.

The TZ8 is perfect for me and does everything i need from a camera (it does have 2 bad points that i will get to in a minute), and the picture quality is out of this world, you will not get better picture quality.

The TZ8 feels very well made too with all buttons, switches and dials been made out of metal, the TZ8 also has full automatic mode(point and shoot), as well as full manual mode for more experienced users, the camera also has shutter priority mode, aperture priority mode, program mode, custom settings, motion picture mode as well as a scene mode section that has 29 sence mode to choose from including :-portrait, soft skin, transorm, self portrait, scenery, panorama assist, sports, night portrait, night scenery, food, party, candle light, baby 1, baby 2, pet, sunset, high sens, hi-speed burst, flash burst, starry sky, fireworks, beach, snow, aerial photo, pin hole, film grain, high dynamic, photo frame and underwater as the TZ8 can be fitted with the underwater case that you can buy.

The battery is very good and although Panasonic cliam it can take 340 pictures on one battery i managed 515 pictures and the battery was still at 3 bars (full), the battery takes no more than 90 mins to charge from empty and can be charged in about 30 mins if you have only used 2 bars with one bar left.

The ISO on the camera can be set to automatic ,80, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1600. Shutter speeds vary from 1/2000 of a second up to 60 seconds max, in starry sky mode the shutter can be set to :- 15, 30 or 60 seconds only, however in manual mode you can pick between :- 1/2000, 1/1600, 1/1300, 1/1000, 1/800, 1/640, 1/500, 1/400, 1/320, 1/250, 1/200, 1,160, 1/125, 1/100, 1/80, 1/60, 1/50, 1/40, 1/30, 1/25, 1/20, 1/15, 1/13, 1/10, 1/8, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4 1/3.2, 1/2.5, 1/2, 1/1.6, 1/1.3, 1, 1.3, 1.6, 2, 2.5, 3.2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50 and 60 seconds, also all them shutter speeds are also available in Aperture priority mode, shutter priority and Program mode.

Aperture values can be set at :- 3.3, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 5.6, and 6.3, the camera is perfect for night photography with long exposure times, the quality of the pictures especially at night are out standing, as long as you keep the ISO speed at 200 or below and just use a longer shutter speed, night pictures are so good mainly due to the fact that the camera adds noice reduction to all pictures over 1 second exposure time and it will add noice reduction by the same time as the exposure was, so if you set the camera up with a shutter speed of 5 seconds, after the 5 second exposure is up the camera will automatcily add 5 seconds noice redcuction to the picture, and you can not use the camera until noice reduction has finished, the camera can be moved off a tripod after the exposure time is up and while noice reduction is still working as the camera then has everything it needs to add the noice reduction to the picture to make it less grainy, meaning a 25 second exposure will take a total of 50 seconds and a 1 minute exposure will take a total of 2 minutes, however i do think its worth it as the end results are second to none, and for me the main thing has got to be image quality every time, noise reduction can be turned off deep in the camera setting under '' PICT.ADJ '' ( picture adjust ).

My old Samsung digital camera used to compress pictures too much (about 2.5 megabytes to 3 megabytes) inside the camera meaning the picture quality was not very good at all, where as the TZ8 does not compress the pictures too much, normally its 4.4 megabytes to 5 megabytes, but i have found that it never drops below 4.4 megabytes for me.

The last camera i had (my old Samsung) was very buggy and glitchy, it had buggs and glitches in the system, and even the softwear it came with was very buggy and glicthy too, but the TZ8 has zero bugs and zero glitches, the softwear also has zero bugs and zero glicthes too witch is very nice when you are buying a peice of quality electronics.

If you are the type of person who likes to display a time and date stamp on your photos then this is not the camera for you as there is no straight forwards time stamp on the camera, however, you can take a picture and then later in the play back options select to add the time and date on to the picture you have taken, this is a totally pointless way of doing it as it then re-sizes your 12MP picture into a 5MP picture with the time and date on it, and i can't see anybody who will want to do it this way.

The TZ8 also has movie capture (motion record) build into the camera, this can by handy at times but its also where one of the cameras bad points that i talked about earlier can be found, while recording, the camera (micphone) suffers really baddly from wind noice, i was out with my TZ8 a few weeks ago taking pictures and decided to use the motion capture, it was a very still and calm day there was no wind at all, the wind was at 0 MPH , there was not even a breeze to be felt so recording seemed good, until i uploading my movie onto my computer and it sounded like i just filmed something in the middle of HURRICANE KATRINA, am not joking it was unbeleiveable, if the was anybody speaking on the video or anything like that i would not have been able to hear them on the video that's for sure, if you are going to record moives in doors then this should be ok as long as the windows are closed, if however you want to record outside then you should really look else where for a different camera, also there is no option in the camera to reduce wind noice or to remove or stop it, this is really not a problem for me as i buy a digital camera 100% for still photos only, motion caputre would not really be all that usefull to me anyway.

TOP TIP :- If you are not very good at photography or not very good at knowing what setting the camera should be on, instead of setting it to iA witch is intelligent mode ( Automatic mode ) , set the camera to A witch is for Aperture mode, then set the aperture to 3.3 by pressing the exposure button, then set the ISO speed to 80 by pressing Q.menu and scrolling along until you get to ISO then select 80.

The above tip will make sure your pictures are taken with the fastest shutter speed that the light you are in will allow, meaning there should be no blurred pictures caused by '' camera shake '', also the low ISO speed you set will stop '' picture noise '' or '' picture grain '' from appearing in your pictures as this is caused by too high a ISO setting.

You only need to set up the camera like this once and you will find you are guaranteed better quality pictures than you get from iA mode, also this works with any brand of camera as long as that camera has aperture mode.

** EDIT :- (07-03-2011) ** I have found out that the wind noise problem can be sort of fixed if you place a bit of sellotape over the two small mic holes and then poke a very very small hole in each of them with a pin, this then makes it possible to record in windless and breezeless days when its very clam outside while still been able to hear every small sound clearly, i am not sure if this will work when it is windy thou.

The other bad point, well small niggle is that the TZ8 suffers from barrel distortion, now don't let this put you off as its only noticable a small amount of the time, barrel distortion is where if you were to take a picure of something that has straight lines, like a goal box, you could line the shot up perfect so that the left post is framed nicely just in shot, and the right post framed nicely just in shot too but what would happen is the goal posts would look like they run out of line, at the bottom the would look fine and straight, in the middle it would look like to bows out a bit and then at the top it would be even more out of line, this barrel distortion is only noticable when taking pictures of things with straight lines and is really only noticable when the very left hand of the object is the most left thing in the picture and the right hand of the object is the most right thing in the picture.

There is softwear that can correct this type of barrel distortion if it really bothers you, but i find its not too bad and in 99% of pictures its not there at all, only when framing 2 straight lines on either side of the picture.

I have had this camera over 6 months now and am truly delighted with it, especially picture quality, and all the features it has to offer, i have given this camera 5 stars out of 5, if i had to rate it out of 10 it would get 9.9 due to the barrel distortion and the wind noice problem, i don't use movie capture really but if i had this would have definitely had been a deal breaker.

** EDIT :- (01-09-2011) ** I would also like to point out just how good the auto focus is on this camera, you don't really notice just how good it is, you always take it for granted that the auto focus should work well, its only when you use a different camera that you realise just how good it is.

Well let me tell you, the auto focus is out of this world, its mind blowing, its unbelievable just how good it is, it is the best auto focus i have ever seen on any digital camera to date, and that includes point and shoot cameras and also the big and expensive DSLR's.

The auto focus ALWAYS GETS IT RIGHT, every time, 100%, come rain or shine, i have had the auto focus work in bright sun, dim light, indoors, outdoors, fog, rain, snow and even in the dead of night as i'm mainly a night photographer.

Even in the worst case scenario, at night with very little street lighting or no lighting at all the auto focus still got it right every time and all within 1 second, the only time it will not work is if you lock yourself in a dark cupboard with 100% darkness.

The only time the auto focus stopped working was when i was taking pictures out in the sticks in the snow, it was 3:00am and the temperature was -15, that's -15 degrees below what Panasonic said the camera should be exposed to, the camera seemed fine and focused perfectly for 15-20 minutes, after then the inside of the camera must have got too cold and it could not focus on anything, so i called it a night and went home, the next day i turned my camera on and it focused perfectly again and has done ever since, so the auto focus is miles ahead of its time i think just keep it out of extreme conditions like freezing snowy wind.

** EDIT :- (14-03-2012) ** Even OVER ONE YEAR later, I'm thinking of buying another one of these just in case anything happens the one I already have, just in case it gets discontinued, its that good, even the newer Panasonic TZ models are NO WHERE NEAR as good as this, the TZ18 and TZ20 are rubbish with poor sensors and bad lenses, and the TZ25 and TZ30 are also a massive let down compared to what they could have been, they both need I.Resolution switched on just to take a sharp picture.

So newer does not necessarily mean better, if video is more your thing then the TZ8 does have pretty poor video quality compared to newer models and newer makes of other cameras too, but if still photos are your thing you will be pushed to find a camera with better image quality than this, it is SUPER SHARP and has brilliant colours, and now at such a cheap price, it really is a bargain.
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Model name	Lumix DMC-TZ8
Brand	Panasonic
Form factor	Compact
Skill level	Professional
Special feature	Integrated Microphone
Colour	Black
White balance settings	Auto
Shooting modes	Movie, Manual, Scene, Aperture Priority
Lens type	Fisheye
Item Weight	191 Grams

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