Cnet Reviews had just reviewed the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7K recently and was impressed by its set of manual controls, the powerful and impressive 12x zoom and the over all functionality. However the camera did lack top notch image quality and at times suffered from image noise as well.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7K is a 6 mega pixel digital camera and is extremely lightweight for its size and zoom lens. It boast of a 2X (36mm-to-432mm, 35mm-equivalent) optically stabilized lens which has a maximum aperture of ranging from f/2.8 to f/3.3. It has shutter speeds ranging from 8 seconds to 1/2,000 second or 60 seconds to 1/2,000 and optical image stabilizer (OIS) system too. The Movie mode is pretty decent where 6:9 movies have a resolution of 848×480.Like all digicams these days it also has a plethora of Scene Modes including Starry Sky and Simple Mode.

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