Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX 01

A little short write up on the background of this award winning camera, extracted from the following website.

The original FX7 was announced in July 2004 and went on to be one of the best-selling cameras of the year thanks to its winning combination of cool styling, compact dimensions, big screen and image-stabilized Leica lens. This, the fourth incarnation (the FX7 was followed in fairly rapid succession by the FX8 and FX9), is on the face of it another minor facelift, but it does offer something still pretty unique in a camera in this class - a true wideangle zoom, covering a useful 28-102mm (3.6x) zoom range. It is, in fact, the world's smallest camera with a 28mm lens. Other changes (detailed below) include a high sensitivity mode (offering sensitivities of up to 1600) and a new 16:9 widescreen movie mode. What we haven't worked out yet is why it's the FX01, not the FX10 (I suspect a typo early in the production process that was too expensive to fix).

Some of the main features of the camera include the following:

• 6.0 effective megapixel CCD
• 28-102mm equiv. (3.6x) Leica DC Vario-Elmarit optical zoom
• 4x digital zoom
• Advanced Mega Optical Image Stabilizer
• New 16:9 840x480 pixel 30fps movie mode
• 2.5-inch, 207,000 pixel LCD with high viewing angle option
• 16 scene modes
• New High sensitivity mode (ISO 800-1600)
• Venus Engine PLUS
• Color options: Silver, Black, Pink, White.

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