Customer Reviews:
 Completely in love August 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't believe it took me 3 crappy camera's later to get this one. It is the best! We took in on vacation and used the zoom from across the street and it looks like we are standing right in front of the place. The sunset mode it EXCELLANT. You can take a picture out the window while in a moving vehicle and it turns out perfect. We have children, it takes pictures of their sports and doesn't come out blurred. It's great to catch moving children or animals. There is no down side to this camera. Worth every penny.
Great Product July 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am thoroughly happy with what I've got! Still have not opened the manual! Very intuitive. Done 500 smashing photos. Battery life is great, will just get myself a spare one. It's light, the photos are sharp, it takes seconds to start taking photos. Cannot think of anyhting negative
 Great, but returned... July 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this camera expecting it fulfill all my needs, however, I soon realized that to be satisfied, I needed a pocket point and shoot, in addition, to an digital SLR.
Don't get me wrong, this is a great camera, and in a pinch, it works great, but don't expect it to supplement an SLR at say, a concert, or a pocket point and shoot, for extreme portability. If you are willing to compromise, buy it, because it truly is the closest to having the best of both worlds...
affordable superzoom pocket camera, just what anyone want July 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This camera have more built in useful features than I knew about before I made the purchase. But one feature I miss -the all manual mode- where you, if you have a tripod, can play around like a "pro" photographer setting your exposure time to several seconds for night photography.
On the other hand, choosing from the built in settings is wonderful. You get so much better color on sunsets using the preset sunset-program to fully automatic mode.
But be ware: one big error appear in sunset mode also! -there is an (aberration?, sorry, not familiar with all the terms in photography) error in color display; an extra color (green) appearing between colors/in the border between shade and sunny parts of an object like rock, faces, bodies and so on. This was very disappointing and should be corrected in future and new releases.
The extra button for one click to max zoom is brilliant and is a very time saving feature when shifting from wide to telephoto situation.
I conclude that TZ5a is all in all a great camera for the price.
But don't bother buying expedited shipping, it take too long to be worth it.
Awesome camera! July 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have always bought Canon digital cameras but was enticed by the zoom and technical reviews for this Panasonic camera and bought from Amazon. The pictures are amazing. Even my photo buff daughter is impressed. The colors are gorgeous and with the EZ zoom feature (automatically lowers the resolution) I get an optical zoom of up to 16.9X. The HD videos are great as well.
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