Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 - CNET Asia
CNET Asia have posted a preview of the 8-megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 digital camera. 'Panasonic has announced its latest Lumix digital camera, the 8.1-megapixels DMC-FZ18. In a crazy mixed-up world where nothing much makes sense any more, least of all technology naming, what does that Z18 stand for? It stands, my friend, for 18x optical zoom. Yes, 18x. That's equivalent to 28-504mm on a 35mm film camera. The DMC-FZ18 has a 28mm wide-angle Leica DC lens. A zoom that size would massively magnify those jitters we mysteriously wake up with every morning, so it's a good thing the DMC-FZ18 has an optical image-stabilization system. This shifts the lens fractionally to compensate for those tiny shakes, so our pictures should be blur-free, even if our vision isn't.'