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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX580 (FX550): 3" touch-sensitive screen and 5x zoom

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Panasonic revitalizes the FX500, its compact camera with large 3" tactile screen, with the Lumix FX580 (FX550 in Europe).

published : Wednesday, January 28, 2009  by raphael 
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PANASONIC  Lumix DMC-FX550  | Theme : Digital Photography  | Compact digital camera


Compacts SLRs with touch-sensitive screen appear here and there with more or less success.  Panasonic updates its concept with the FX580 which again has a 3" tactile screen, which allows to control the camera: select menus, settings, choose the focus zone, change parameters like aperture etc...
 

5x zoom and 12 megapixels

Apart from this, this 12-megapixel camera is very close to the Lumix FX48 (FW40) with its optical 5x 25-125mm stabilized zoom, the full set of Panasonic’s intelligent automatic systems or else hi-def 720p recording in Motion JPEG.
 

Main features of the Lumix DMC-FX580

  • 12 megapixels
  • 5x lens, equivalent to 25-125 mm
  • Mega O.I.S. stabilizer
  • Intelligent Auto
  • Tactile 3" and 230 000 points screen
  • Control via the screen
  • Scene detection
  • Face detection
  • Face Recognition
  • Red-eye correction
  • AF tracking
  • Intelligent exposure
  • HD 1080 x 720, 720p, Motion JPEG video
  • Lithium battery
  • 147 grams without battery nor card
  • Retail price: 299 euros VAT incl.


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