Panasonic Lumix DMC-S1 Point & Shoot

Key Features

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-S1 belongs to the Panasonic Lumix S series of point and shoot cameras. This stylish camera is the ideal companion to take along to a party or outing with friends. This Panasonic Lumix digital camera has a Lumix DC Vario lens with a focal length of 5 - 20 mm and a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 28 - 112 mm.

This Lumix camera also has a 4x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom. With the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ), the Lumix digital camera reduces the resolution of the picture to 3 megapixels to let you take pictures at up to 7.8x zoom. This Panasonic DMC-S1 camera has a CCD image sensor which gives you images with 12.1 megapixel resolution.

This camera weighs only 117 g and has a stylish rounded body design. The contours of this Lumix point and shoot fit comfortably in your hands and pocket. The dedicated buttons for picture preview and modes make this Panasonic camera convenient to use. With this Lumix digital camera, you can shoot videos in HD at 1280 x 720 dot pixel resolution (30 fps).

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-S1 is powered by the Venus Engine, which uses advance signal processing to give sharp images and makes high-speed shooting possible. This Panasonic Lumix digital camera supports pictures with 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9 aspect ratio. The Lumix DMC-S1 has a 2.7 inch TFT LCD display screen with 230,000 dot pixel resolution.

Battery and Storage

The Panasonic Lumix digital camera has an inbuilt memory of 20 MB and can be expanded using SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards. You can take up to 240 images with the rechargeable Lithium Ion battery on a single charge. You can also transfer images and videos from this camera to a laptop or PC using the USB 2.0 high speed port and always have space for more images.

Performance

Aperture of a camera is the size of the lens opening which controls the amount of light that falls on the image sensor. The DMC-S1 has an aperture range of f/3.1 - 6.5. You can take sharp pictures with this Panasonic point and shoot camera, which has a focus range of 50 mm to infinity (Wide) and 1000 mm to infinity (Tele).

The clarity of your images is influenced by the light sensitivity of the digital camera, measured in ISO. This Lumix point and shoot camera has a light sensitivity range of ISO 100 - 1600, which can be increased to ISO 1600 - 6400 in High Sensitivity mode.

The shutter speed of the Lumix DMC-S1 digital camera is 8 - 1/1600 seconds. With the inbuilt flash, that has a range of 400 - 3300 mm (Wide) and 1000 - 1600 mm (Tele), you can light up every corner of your images.

Features

This Panasonic Lumix DMC-S1 point and shoot digital camera has 16 scene modes like Sports, Party, Baby, Fireworks and more. In Fireworks mode, the camera determines if a tripod is being used, and adjusts the shutter speed to get a sharp image of the burst of light. The optical image stabilizer of this Panasonic digital camera compensates for blurring to give you well-defined images.

The Face Detection feature of the Lumix digital camera identifies faces in the frame and optimizes settings to keep them in focus. You can also be in every picture with your friends, as the self-timer allows you to delay shutter release by 2 or 10 seconds.