Panasonic DMC-TZ7

A few weeks ago, my lead a company to convert some old Super 8 home videos to DVD and so we watched some of them. Among them was one showing me and my brothers as little kids and it was fun watching them. So I decided that I need some camcorder with HD resolution support. But they’re expansive so I found another solution: A usual digital photocamera which supports filming in high resolution. This would also solve the problem of the weak battery from my old Sony DSC-P10.

I found the Panasonic DMC-TZ7 (called DMC-ZS3 in the U.S.) which supports filming in AVCHD Lite and a resolution of 1280×720 pixel in progressive (720p). The other technical specs weren’t to bad either: 10 megapixel sensor, 12x optical zoom with optical image stabilizer, …

So I ordered the cam for about 330 € at Amazon and received it yesterday. I will provide some test photos as soon my wordpress doesn’t recognize all large images as 0×0 pixel images.