Home > Consumer Reviews > Panasonic DMC-TZ1BB Digital Camera - Black [5MP, 10 X Optical Zoom] 2.5" LCD

I have had this camera since late summer 2006 and it truly amazing. Several of my friends and family have gone on and bought one after playing around with mine. It has been forced to endure me bouncing around at dark, smokey gigs and it has not failed me. My favourite feature is the motion picture (it refocuses, and you can zoom in and out while filming - which is so smooth). The zoom is (or defintiely was when I bought this camera) the best out there in a camera this small (ok, so this isn't the smallest digital camera out there by a long shot, but it is tiny for what it is capable of). I recommend you go and have a play just to see how good the zoom is....it will blow you away. This camera also has some other nifty features such as the anit-shock, which compared to my previous camera, makes my gig photos a lot clearer. The lens is made to Leica spec (so very good), it has millions of setting (looking forward to trying out the winter weather one in Switzerland), and good battery life.

Don't expect to fit this camera in the pocket of your skinny jeans....apart from that, I can't fault this camera.

I was looking for a camera which have a large zoom but wit ha small size, so I ended up being choosing between this camera and a Nikon S10 and a kodak 606, this one had more prizes so I thought that it was the one ( the price was appealing as well )and it was really the best camera for the occasional photographer like me

if you are looking at advanced stuff this is not really the camera you would look for even though it have many of the stuff needed ( manual control over ISO , brithness ... etc ) what I liked espesially about this camera is the flash ability, as it can take the photograph in a completely dark room as it was taken with the lights on

there two new models from the same camera ( TZ2 and TZ3 ) and they have a higher megapexil tag