you won't find this any cheaper, one of the best digital camera on the market
6th Avenue Electronics offers the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-ZS3 10.1-Megapixel Digital Camera in Silver, model no. DMC-ZS3S, for $235.05. Coupon code "BONUSBUY" With free shipping,
STORAGE: # Flash Modes # Red-eye Reduction # Flash ON # Flash OFF # Auto Flash
MEMORY: # Flash Memory Capacity # 40MB
INTERFACES/PORTS: # Memory Card Support # Secure Digital (SD) Card # MultiMediaCard (MMC) # Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Card
BATTERY INFORMATION: # Interfaces/Ports # 1 x HDMI # 1 x Audio/Video Out # 1 x DC Power In # 1 x USB # Battery Rechargeable # Yes # Number of Batteries Support # 1 # Battery Size Support # Proprietary
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: # Battery Include # Yes # Color # Silver # Dimensions # 2.35" Height x 4.07" Width x 1.29" Depth
a-max said: This is totally outdated by the new product line from Panasonic just hitting the market now. So are you saying this is going to drop in price? From everything I have read and heard, this is an excellent camera, one of the few that allows you to zoom during HD video recording. And from what I saw, the HD video looks really good.
If you put "Lumix DMC-ZS3" in your bing cb search box, you can find many similar deals. One place even had it for $189 plus $10 shipping. I'm not listing the place, because it might be kind of dodgy. Most of the other places had it right around $230 on up. If you can find it at Buy.com, you can probably buy from them through their eBay storefront and get 8% eBay.
I bought the blue version a couple weeks ago from Amazon for $220. Regardless of whether a new model is out, it is still a very good camera.
Lanx
Member
posted: Feb. 25, 2010 @ 3:46p
if you have this camera, you can drop the mp to 5mp instead of 12 and get 17x zoom. it's nice but not needed cuz it's not really that much more zoom, imo, and why bother adding more manual controls? the sweet spot for his camera is a point and shoot but with a big zoom, nothing really fits this niche, either live with a smaller point and shoot with less zoom or upgrade to a slr and carry around the big clunker.
deshwasi said: amen. clueless folks taken for a ride in the MP race.Don't get all religious on us. It's just technology. And the newer camera kills this one. The geotagging and improved image stabilization are huge, and if you have even basic competency at photography, the manual controls are essential for constricting depth of field, etc.
a-max said: deshwasi said: amen. clueless folks taken for a ride in the MP race.Don't get all religious on us. It's just technology. And the newer camera kills this one. The geotagging and improved image stabilization are huge, and if you have even basic competency at photography, the manual controls are essential for constricting depth of field, etc.
dukenightvision said: a-max said: deshwasi said: amen. clueless folks taken for a ride in the MP race.Don't get all religious on us. It's just technology. And the newer camera kills this one. The geotagging and improved image stabilization are huge, and if you have even basic competency at photography, the manual controls are essential for constricting depth of field, etc.
a-max said: deshwasi said: amen. clueless folks taken for a ride in the MP race.Don't get all religious on us. It's just technology. And the newer camera kills this one. The geotagging and improved image stabilization are huge, and if you have even basic competency at photography, the manual controls are essential for constricting depth of field, etc.
Oh please! You have yet to link to a single thing to confirm anything you have spewed forth. I would bet you have used neither camera and certainly not the newest one.
Verbose claims involving electronics using the terms, "kills", "owns", "destroys" should be taken with a grain of salt.
I love the zs3 at iso 100 at 200 it is noisy it has a nice 25mm wide lens - that is better than most 25m wide or even the 'wide' 28mm lenses but the noise kills it once these cameras joined the megapixel race above 8 megapixels - noise performance drops
fateye said: I love the zs3 at iso 100 at 200 it is noisy it has a nice 25mm wide lens - that is better than most 25m wide or even the 'wide' 28mm lenses but the noise kills it once these cameras joined the megapixel race above 8 megapixels - noise performance drops
I have ZS3 and agree with you 100%
I'd like to get modern camera with even 6 MP only, but which can handle ISO 800 and be 6 pps and with F2 or better in compact size
instead newer ZS got 12MP from 10MP and even more noise ...
mikek753 said: fateye said: I love the zs3 at iso 100 at 200 it is noisy it has a nice 25mm wide lens - that is better than most 25m wide or even the 'wide' 28mm lenses but the noise kills it once these cameras joined the megapixel race above 8 megapixels - noise performance drops
I have ZS3 and agree with you 100%
I'd like to get modern camera with even 6 MP only, but which can handle ISO 800 and be 6 pps and with F2 or better in compact size
instead newer ZS got 12MP from 10MP and even more noise ...
Add another me too. I just got the ZS3 and its has some pretty bad noise issues even at ISO100. I tried the ZR1 and it was even worse. It looks like a few of the mfg's are finally waking up, but its hard when you have all the lemmings looking for cameras with more pixels.
I've had the Sony DSC-V3, which was very old camera, probably 5 or 6 years by now and also a Canon SD800, the one with 28mm lens. I was once too excited about this beautiful, feature-packed Panny DMC-ZS3, plus reading tons of positive reviews from users all over the places/sites, also did reviewed those ZS3 sample pictures. Beautiful! As mentioned above, carrying the old bulky Sony V3 and an out-dated Canon SD800, I bought the ZS3 @Costco, expected it out-performs the V3 and SD800. With too many good reviews, the hype of how good this little Panny is. It turned out a completely disappointed, very disappointed. Firstly, I don't mean to say that the ZS3 is bad, I just felt disappointed because with all hypes, this camera was no better than my V3 when taking outside and not better than the SD800 when taking indoor WITH flash. Secondly, I'd read more about the V3 (on dpreview.com) and found out that the V3 does have 1/1.7" sensor with 7.1MP while the ZS3 has 1/2.33" sensor with 10MP, which is smaller. I then realize that I should compare the Sony V3 to the Canon G11 or S90 group, it's unfair to compare it with the smaller sensor size. That explains why the new ZS3 not even look as good as pix from my old Sony. Thirdly, after buying it, I took picture mostly indoor (inside home) and found out: a. in low-light condition, it looks as bad as my other cameras, b. with flash turns ON, it looks horrible as washed-out and blueish and pale. I found out that MOST of the sample pictures were taken WITHOUT flash. So disappointed. So my conclusion is: 1. never too excited about it. It is a good camera if you not compare it too others 2. in low-light conditions (inside home, not enough light, iso higher than 200, ..... name it) its pictures look ........BAD. 3. in low-light conditions when you must turn flash on (otherwise it shakes/blurs), its pictures look even worse.
pianoCM said: Thirdly, after buying it, I took picture mostly indoor (inside home) and found out: a. in low-light condition, it looks as bad as my other cameras, b. with flash turns ON, it looks horrible as washed-out and blueish and pale. I found out that MOST of the sample pictures were taken WITHOUT flash. So disappointed.
I noticed the same blue tone indoors w/flash too. If you play with the white balance you can make it better... but why should you have to?
so far average consumer might think - "my camera has more MP then your" for marketing that's easy to spin and order R&D deliver crap with more MP
I'm not sure that average consumer will start thinking this ways: 1. "my camera has better / higher usable ISO then your" 2. "my camera has larger MP then your" 3. "my camera has better / higher dynamic range (DR) then your"
now tell me what average consumer knows more if at all about MP number, ISO, DR, pixel density, PPS / FPS, Optical F, etc? and you get the answer why we have so many 10MP-18MP P&S crap cameras ... I hope it will change one day
mikek753 said: so far average consumer might think - "my camera has more MP then your" for marketing that's easy to spin and order R&D deliver crap with more MP
I'm not sure that average consumer will start thinking this ways: 1. "my camera has better / higher usable ISO then your" 2. "my camera has larger MP then your" 3. "my camera has better / higher dynamic range (DR) then your"
now tell me what average consumer knows more if at all about MP number, ISO, DR, pixel density, PPS / FPS, Optical F, etc? and you get the answer why we have so many 10MP-18MP P&S crap cameras ... I hope it will change one day
Very good point, its easy to see how the camera mfg's have fallen into the megapixel race, but it is their greed (or our reluctance to pay) that has led to the stagnant sensor size in the modern P&S. If there is one thing to take away from this discussion, it is this:
Don't blindly assume a newer digital camera will take better pictures than the one you already have. If your camera is in the 6-8mp range, you are in the sweet spot as far as pixel density goes for most P&S cameras.
seller
New Member
posted: Mar. 31, 2010 @ 8:25a
I recently bought the zs3 from an 6Ave and when I opened it the camera did not have a protective film on the LCD screen, leading me to believe that it's not new. Is it supposed to have a protective film on the LCD?
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