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With out a doubt one of the best little zoom cameras ever! The Leica lens is amazing and our shoots are wonderful!

I find my self carrying this with me in my car at all times. We have bigger, more expensive digitals, but this continues to be my favorite all around camera. Our little ones (3 grandchildren) can not escape the pictures with this one! and they are IN FOCUS to boot!

Buy one if you can find one.

when a camera shoots great fantastic pics, ther is no such thing as being dated, i buy older camera's they might not have all these frills of todays cameras which you might not use anyway, but these cameras are built better stronger and have better lenses even if their pixels are lower than today's cameras, i think they out perform them when it comes to quality pics, especially the panasonic lumix dmc fz line of cameras, is the most amazing! i collected all of them and i treat them as jewels.

The camera is kinda old but takes some pretty great pictures. I haven't gotten the hang of everything but its a pretty good cam. The viewfinder could be bigger most definitely and while the manual says the max card it can use is 1GB, I'm using a 2GB Sandisk Extreme III Card with the camera set on its highest settings which gives me about 1172 pictures to take. According to the manual, if I'm understanding correctly, this particular model doesn't have sound to the video but the next model does. Not a biggie for me. It comes with a lens cap and accessories to the keep the light out the picture, connecting it to the printer, among other things. Good camera. It was about 94 dollars without shipping and with what you get in the price it was a great deal, but I'd rather get a more recent model that has a viewfinder and bigger optical zoom. This is the more recent version: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28K 10MP Digital Camera with 18x Wide Angle MEGA Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)

Great Caera, Great photos, however this is a 2005 model,
these days I would buy the Great Panasonic FZ7.

However this is a great Camera that takes excellent pictures!
(records video with no Sound).

After several months of use, the FZ4 continues to impress me. I had originally planned to get the FZ5 to replace my 3-yr old Panasonic LC5 but when I tried both, I found that an extra $100 or so bought me a slightly larger LCD (not enough to matter), sound when using the movie mode (which I have not used on any digital camera) and other useless gadgetry, like choice of silver or black body. I feel that the FZ4 is slightly faster and noise, which is usually seen in the shadows at higher ISO, is slightly reduced---and no purple fringing, period. Both are excellent cameras within their design parameters as cameras for sports, family gettogethers,nature and travel, not portrait or studio work although enlargements on the FZ4 are fine up to and including 8x11 and often even larger. What it lacks is a complete set of manual controls but if you want that you must get a DSLR and a couple of zoom lenses which will set you back several thousand. My Panasonic DMC-FZ4 was well under US$250, including tax and shipping.