Advise needed please on the "Panasonic DMC TZ3 (Black)"

[RobbieM-Evo]

Hi all, I'm after a new digital camera as my current one is less than 2 mega pixels!!!


Anyway I have my eye on this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-DMC-TZ3-Black/dp...

Anyone have this? Any comments please?

Many thanks
Rob

[350Wedge]

I've not got one, but have heard some very good things about it.

I'm going to be looking for something along these lines in the not too distant future and this will be top of my hit list.

There are some reviews i think in some current Digi cam magazines which in the main are very positive. It has a lot of great features and is a pretty good price too....

[RobbieM-Evo]

Cheers 350, the best price I have seen is £217 + Delv.

Pretty good IMO

[350Wedge]

RobbieM-Evo said:

Cheers 350, the best price I have seen is £217 + Delv.

Pretty good IMO

Thats certainly the best I've seen. I made the mistake of wandering onto the Jessops website as i have 40 quids worth of vouchers to spend. Their price is £299 so dont think i will be buying there...lol

[CVP]

We have recently changed our old Ixus for one of these beasties. So far quite pleased with it. I will say at higher ISOs it is more noisy than the old IXUS, but the optical zoom range is very good and the image stabilisation seems to work well in my hands. Battery life seems OK too.

Overall I am very pleased for a point and snap device and it is small enough to get thrown in a pocket for nights out etc.

HTH

Chris

Samples of output

MACRO MODE
Has come out very nicely for output from a little point and shoot. Many thanks are due to the model for staying still whilst I composed




AWKWARD LIGHTING
A bit tricky on the lighting front but the camera coped quite well. I don't think anything would have had the dynamic range to be able to cope with the level of contracts between inside and outside the tunnel.




NICE DAY LIGHT
The original has plenty of detail and contrast showing what the camera can achieve in good conditions




NIGHT TIME
You can see this is more noisy and I really wouldn't want to print over 6*4 for this, but as it's only a holiday snap, that's fine

Edited by CVP on Monday 16th July 18:14

[andyparrott]

RobbieM-Evo said:

Cheers 350, the best price I have seen is £217 + Delv.

Pretty good IMO

I've been looking at these also, on digital rev today they have it listed for £157, trying to work out what the catch is because it seems too good a price.

[350Wedge]

andyparrott said:

RobbieM-Evo said:

Cheers 350, the best price I have seen is £217 + Delv.

Pretty good IMO

I've been looking at these also, on digital rev today they have it listed for £157, trying to work out what the catch is because it seems too good a price.

It will work out cheaper so long as you dont get stung for import tax. I know DigitalRev do 'No VAT' deals on digi SLR's sometimes to the UK but not sure about compacts. Expect postage is more expensive than getting something via mail order from this country. You just need to work out the total including postage and if worst happens VAT/Import tax. If it still works out cheaper, which i suspect it will then its a decent deal.

[RobbieM-Evo]

Thanks all!

I have just been on that Rev website and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 has just gone down in price from £242.99 to Our Price: £186.99
(£186.99 excl. ) and this one is the 12.2 mega pixels - which one should I go for?

Cheers
Rob

[JuniorD]

I'm currently considering one of these as a gift for my old man. I had considered getting him a Canon Powershot S70 (I own one myself and really dig it) however they are discontinued and are fetching crazy money on ebay.

There is an excellent review of the TZ3 on DPReview and it's rated weel http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/pa...

One or two of the owner's opinions are critical though.
Still, I'm interested and is good to see that there are good prices to be had. I intend getting mine in the USA when I'm next out ($299) however no one seems to have them in black...

[GetCarter]

Also consider http://www.panasonic.co.uk/news/fx100.html

Just out (well almost)

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 17th July 13:50

[pastrana72]

GetCarter said:

Also consider http://www.panasonic.co.uk/news/fx100.html

Just out (well almost)

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 17th July 13:50

i have just had a demo of this model, it is stunning,

i have the model before fx07,but my friend has a tz3, he thinks it is excellent and i agree with him.

top camera

[GetCarter]

FX-100 : Looks like noise is still an issue. Real shame as in every other way it looks the biz for a point & shoot.

http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-cameras/panasonic-...