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Unfortunately, we really can't comment on the camera. It was a Christmas present, packed in our suitcase on an international journey courtesy of NorthWest and KLM. NorthWest had "equipment problems" and we were dealyed two days en route in Boston, and KLM lost all our bags where we connected, and they arrived four days later, just a few hours before our return. The camera had been stolen from one of our bags in Amsterdam - we never got chance to use it. Guess what? The airlines don't accept responsibility for the theft of anything like that from checked bags. We had tried to carry the bag on too, but were not allowed. We think it probably was a good camera - perhaps the person in Amsterdam who has it now can complete this?.

Hi,
Can someone please help me with this? I am a first time pana digiCam user. I got my pana DMC TZ5 thru online store. The box itself is not sealed by pana but by their store sticker. it this normal???
also, my instruction menu and CD are not put in the order that
was shown on the diagram. can someone please tell me what other documents/menus you got besides instruciton menu? (I saw 1 on line pic that someone got a bag of documents(instruction menus+some other menus???)
Thank so much.

This is a great camera but I returned it before it was shipped. I decided to get the Canon camcorder instead. I'm looking for something that will do both video and stills.

I have the TZ3 and am acquiring the TZ5, so my comments apply only to the still picture process, which is straightforward. Don't be swayed by the favorable comments on the 28mm "wide angle" lens - when shooting landscapes or large groups of people etc., all you will see in the details (with real users' images) is pixel smear. The whole point of a "fat" and heavy camera like this, which does not fit a shirt pocket, is the long end of the zoom, which could be 350mm, but sadly is only 280mm in actuality. For shooting people and landscapes, there are wide angle cameras from Casio, Sony, perhaps even Panasonic, that are small and light and pocketsize with up to 14 megapixels that have much better image quality than this camera. Where this camera really leapfrogs over the others I mentioned is in the long zoom. When shooting pictures of birds and other things small or farther away, this camera will give you *much* better images because of the long zoom.