Panasonic is up to something once again. They have brought up another high-end camera name as Panasonic Lumix FZ60. The new Panasonic Lumix FZ60 camera has just become available for pre-order in the US through B&H Photo. Its price tag is at $349 only (a nice price for an enhanced camera like that).
It is accorded with new and advanced specifications that consists of a 16.1MP high sensitivity MOS sensor that features a 25mm ultra wide angle lens along with a 24x optional zoom lens.
The new Panasonic Lumix FZ60 camera is embedded with a Panasonic’s LSI Venus Engine image processor, which has built-in 3.0 inch 460K-dot LCD Display. Internal storage space for the Panasonic Lumix FZ60 camera is 70MB along with an SD/SDXC/SDHC card slot, a mini HDMI output and a 1080 60i Full high definition video recording functionality etc. The rest of the Panasonic Lumix FZ60 camera features have been discussed below.
Panasonic Lumix FZ60 Digital Camera
The Panasonic Lumix FZ60 Digital Camera is gifted with a 16.1 Megapixels 1/2.33? MOS Sensor with a 4608 x 3456 pixels resolution along with a 4:3 aspect ratio and it supports various image and video file formats as Still Images: (JPEG, MPO, RAW), Movies: (MPEG-4, MPEG-4 AVCHD), Audio: (AAC). By default, the Panasonic Lumix FZ60 camera comes embedded with an Optical Image Stabilization with its Lens which has been facilitated with a 14 elements in 10 groups with 2 Aspheric, 3 ED and Leica DC Vario-Elmarit. Its Aperture is of f/2.8 (W) – 5.2 (T) to f/8.0 1 while its EFL is as follows: EFL: 4.5-108 mm (35 mm equivalent: 25-600 mm).
To add to that specs, this new camera comes with a 24x Optical Zoom with an ability to zoom intelligently with its 48x Intelligent Zoom feature, and it has Focus Range up to 11.81? (30 cm) (Infinity), Wide: 0.39? (1 cm) – Infinity, Telephoto: 39.37? (100 cm) – Infinity, Telephoto: 78.74? (200 cm) – Infinity. Its ISO Sensitivity is Auto, 100-3200 (High Sensitivity Mode: 1600-6400) with a shutter speed of 4–1/2000 sec and has Exposure Metering modes as Multi, Center-weighted, Spot. It has several types of Exposure Modes and they are as follows:
- Aperture Priority
- Manual
- Programmed Auto
- Shutter Priority with the Compensation as -3 EV to +3 EV (in 1/3 EV steps).
It also comes with White Balance Modes, they are; Auto, Flash, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent (White), Fluorescent (Natural White), Incandescent and Shade. The Panasonic Lumix FZ60 Digital Camera Self Timer are as follows: 10 Sec, 2 Sec and it comes with a 70MB of in-built Memory. The Memory Card Slot that is provided with it is compatible with SD, SDXC and SDHC cards. The new Panasonic Lumix FZ60 Digital Camera is facilitated with a 3.0? LCD Rear Screen that has a display resolution of 460000 pixels.
Panasonic Lumix FZ60 Digital Camera comes powered with a rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery 7.2VDC 895mAh, in measurement; it measures 4.74 x 3.18 x 3.62? / 120.3 x 80.8 x 91.9 mm, and in weight; it has a weight of 0.99 lb / 449 g without its battery and memory card slotted in.