Panasonic FZ3 - 12 X Optical- Two Left. £199.00 inc del.

rizla01

The Panasonic DSC-FZ3B 3.1 MegaPixel Digital Camera with big 12x Optical Leica DC Vario-Elmarit Zoom Lens [equivalent to a 400mm class lens], 4x digital zoom, 1.5" LCD display, is just £189.99p at DigitalDirect.Com. If you buy through your QuidCo.Com account, you can earn 2% in cashback.

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The DMC-FZ3´s LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens is small and lightweight yet delivers the same zoom power as a big, heavy 400 mm-class lens
While maintaining the superb performance inside, we´ve made this new, gently rounded body slightly smaller than the FZ2. This easy-to-hold form fits the contour of your hand to give you a steady and comfortable grip.

Excellent camera but now replaced by the FZ5 5megapixel version.

Babbler

Ideed it is a great camera - I have the next one up (FZ5) and it is brilliant! A bot big tho for carrying around generally... Got it for £280 a year ago...

RufusA

FWIW there is a long thread about this camera when Photo Optix were selling it for a similar price nearly a year ago:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=28321

I picked one up at that time and IMHO it's an excellent camera. Only slightly let down by "noisy" photos when lighting is poor, and a flash that doesn't throttle back when photoing close objects (has a habit of flooding people with too much light washing out all of their features).

The 12x zoom WITH stabiliser though is EXCELLENT and has produced many a fine shot over the last few months that other cameras wouldn't have got near.

Rufus.

rebeccaj

still got the 2 in stock, I see. Not snapped up that quickly then :rotfl:

Flimber

RufusA wrote:

...Only slightly let down by "noisy" photos when lighting is poor, and a flash that doesn't throttle back when photoing close objects (has a habit of flooding people with too much light washing out all of their features).

You can turn the Flash output down with a quick fiddle of the toggle switch. I have mine down '1 and 2/3' most of the time anyway as I get better results.

Mike.