Discount Panasonic Lumix FS33 Digital Camera – Silver (14.1MP, 8x Optical Zoom) 3 inch Touchscreen LCD – Promotion
List Price: £199.00
23
Dec 2011
UK Bargain Panasonic Lumix FS33 Digital Camera – Silver (14.1MP, 8x Optical Zoom) 3 inch Touchscreen LCD Best Price
Very good camera,
This camera is excellent. It is cheaper than other Lumix cameras of equivalent spec because it has Panasonic’s own lens instead of the Leica lens. However, in my opinion this does not detract from the quality of the pictures at all.
This camera is also known as the FH22 in the USA. Look at the professional reviews and it gets outstanding reviews and so this camera definitely is something of a bargain. It is also basically the same camera as the FS30 (FH20) but has a touch screen.
The touch screen on this camera is brilliant and really adds to it. Use the buttons on the side of the screen to go into a menu, then the different options are presented in the touch screen. Also when viewing photos, you can swipe your finger on the screen and the photo changes. Additionally, the touch screen allows you to touch a particular area of the scene and focus immediately on that- for example the face.
The camera has optical image stabilisation- good for both photos and video and allows you to take indoor shots without the flash and use the zoom without blur.
It does good quality 720p video. It is saved in .mov format. This is not as technically good as AVCHD which some of the expensive Lumix’s use, but it is a lot easier to edit and put onto DVD etc. The quality of the video is very good- equivalent to one of the mini HD cams you can buy from Flip or Kodak, but this also has the image stabilisation which makes a lot of difference and makes the film more watchable.
One point to note is that you cannot use the zoom when recording video. This seems to bother some people, but it has never bothered me- you should not really be zooming in and out whilst filming as it looks awful and with my video camera I hardly ever did that. You can set the zoom before starting shooting, then it is fixed in that position.
Each video clip is limited to 2GB which is 8m 24s of HD. You can immediately start recording another. Again, not really a problem because I cannot in all the years of recording video on holidays etc really remember recording more than 8 minutes continuously.
There are many different scene modes, but it also has intelligent auto which seems to do a very good job of guessing what you are pointing the camera at, and applying one of the basic scene modes automatically.
Some of the photos I have had out of this are outstanding- particularly the portraits.
Overall, I doubt you would be disappointed with this camera.
EDIT- note those who complained touch screen is too slow. Update the firmware to 1.1 and the touchscreen is wonderful to use, the new firmware speeds it up considerably!
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|Panasonic Lumiz FS33,
Seems to be a great little camera. Purchased for a thirteen year old who doesn’t seem to have any problems at all using it: especially likes the touch screen. Small enough to fit in your pocket, but the quality of the pictures is fantastic.
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|Panasonic Lumis FS33,
This is a very good specification camera for the money but the touch screen can be very annoying. It is far to slow to bring in immages having to touch the screen every single time you want to pan in, the touch screen icons get in the way of viewing and unfortunately it does not have alternative buttons to use instead of touch screen as I was initially told by one shop. Tapping on the screen is not as efficient as having the buttons, which I shall be returning to. This touch screen camera I think needs a lot of modifications which ruins which other wise is a good little camera, in fact I would like to return it to panasonic as we are so dissatisified with the touch screen element.
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