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Panasonic formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb ...

Lumix Lumix is Panasonic's brand of digital cameras, ranging from pocket point-and-shoot models to digital SLRs. Compact digital cameras DMC-LC5 and DMC-F7 were the first products of the Lumix series, released in 2001. Most Lumix cameras use di ...

DMC-FZ28 is a

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bridge digital camera, replacing the similar

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 is a superzoom bridge digital camera that features: * 8.1 megapixel resolution * Fast f/2.8 Leica Camera, Leica-branded zoom lens with super 18x zoom range * Mega O.I.S. (optical image stabilization, image stabilizer) ...

. It was announced in 2008 and released for sale in the

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in August of that year. Like the FZ18 it has a Leica lens with an 18x

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ratio. It has a slightly larger sensor than the FZ18, a 10.1-megapixel image resolution, and the newer Venus IV

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Description

The camera's macro mode allows the capturing of images at a distance of one centimetre. The camera also has intelligent scene detection, 15x face recognition, intelligence ISO, intelligent exposure. Three different aspect ratios are available: 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9. Still image quality settings include different qualities of JPEG output and

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format (in .RW2 format); both JPEG and RAW recordings can be produced simultaneously. Various high-speed burst modes are available, going up to thirteen frames per second at two megapixels in 16:9 aspect ratio. Video output is 1280x720 p at 30 frame/s HD

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in QuickTime format. There are three data outputs: AV, component out, and USB2.0. Internal memory is 50 MB, supplemented by removable SD or SDHC cards of multi-gigabyte capacity.

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