Lumix DMC-LX1S Digital Camera - Silver
The DMC-LX1 features a 4x optical zoom with a wide 28mm field of view when shooting in the 16:9 aspect ratio at 8-megapixel resolution. This and the world's first 16:9 CCD with 8.4 million effective pixels give you superb image quality over a wide shooting range. The Extended Optical Zoom, which minimizes the image degradation that normally occurs with digital zooming, gives you up to 5x for 5.5-megapixel image recording in 16:9 aspect. Take hand movement out of the picture with MEGA Optical Image Stabilization. This system uses built-in gyrosensors to detect even tiny camera movement and then shifts a lens in the opposite direction to compensate so you get sharp, clear images with minimal degradation. The DMC-LX1's 2.5" diagonal LCD monitor is unusually large for a camera this compact. And with 207,000 pixels, it has the high resolution you need to see your subject clearly. For easier viewing outdoors on a sunny day, just press the Power LCD button and the monitor becomes about 40% brighter. Thanks to the Venus Engine II's release time lag (not including auto-focusing time) of around 0.01 seconds, the DMC-LX1 is super-fast. You can snap off consecutive shots at a swift 3 frames per second with full resolution. Manual Focus Assist helps you get a perfect focus by magnifying the center part of the image on the LCD monitor and displaying a bar graph of the focal distance and depth of the field. Press and hold down the joystick, and you can also instantly change four key settings while viewing the subject on the monitor.