Panasonic DMC-FP1 Point & Shoot Camera  (Black)

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP1 belongs to the Panasonic Lumix FP series of point and shoot digital cameras. This sleek camera is ideal to take along to social events and parties. This Lumix digital camera has a Lumix DC Vario lens with a focal length of 6.3 - 25.2 mm and a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 35 - 140 mm.

This Lumix DMC-FP1 has a CCD image sensor with which you can take images at 12.1 megapixel resolution. This Panasonic point and shoot camera has a 4x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom. You can use the Extra Optical Zoom (EZ) to increase the zoom to up to 7.8x, and the camera reduces the resolution of the image to 3 megapixels.

The sophisticated looking camera weighs 141 g and has smooth and rounded curves, fitting comfortably in your hand while taking pictures. The dedicated buttons for flash and Intelligent Auto (iA) modes makes this a convenient camera to use.

The Venus Engine of this Lumix digital camera reduces power consumption and boosts image quality of the images. With this Lumix DMC-FP1 camera, you can shoot videos in HD at a resolution of 1280 x 720 dot pixel (30 fps). The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP1 has a 2.7 inch TFT LCD display with 230,000 dot pixel resolution. This camera supports aspect ratios of 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9.

Battery and Storage

This Panasonic DMC-FP1 camera has an inbuilt memory of 40 MB, and can be expanded using SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards. You can take up to 300 images with the rechargeable Lithium Ion battery on a single charge. You can free up more space on this camera by transferring your pictures to a laptop or PC using the USB 2.0 high speed port.

Performance

Aperture of a camera refers to the size of the lens diaphragm which controls the amount of light that falls on the image sensor. The Lumix DMC-FP1 has an aperture range of f/3.5 - 5.9.

On Normal mode, this camera can focus in a range of 500 mm to infinity (Wide and Tele). In the Macro mode, the focus ranges from 100 mm to infinity (Wide) and from 500 mm to infinity (Tele). You can take bright pictures by using the inbuilt flash of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP1, which has a range of 300 - 4900 mm (Wide) and 500 - 2900 mm (Tele).

ISO refers to the light sensitivity of the image sensor in a camera. The light sensitivity of the Lumix DMC-FP1 ranges from ISO 80 - 1600. On high sensitivity setting, this can range from ISO 1600 - 6400. The Lumix digital camera has a shutter speed range of 8 - 1/1600 seconds in Auto mode. You can get a clear and sharp image of the night sky with shutter speed options of 15, 30 and 60 second on Starry Sky Mode.

Features

This Panasonic Lumix digital camera has 25 preset scene modes like Self Portrait, Food, Party, Candle Light, Fireworks and many more. The Sunset mode emphasizes red tones to ensure vivid images of sunsets. You can take blur free pictures with this Panasonic DMC-FP1's optical image stabilizer.

The Face Detection function of this Panasonic point and shoot digital camera automatically optimizes the focus and exposure settings for up to 15 faces in a single frame. The self-timer of this Lumix camera has options of 2 and 10 seconds delay, letting you join your friends in all photos. The Continuous Shooting mode of this Panasonic DMC-FP1 camera lets you take up to 100 shots at 5.5 frames per second.