
The Panasonic Leica DMC-FZ7K 6MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom features a Leica DC Vario-Elmarit Lens with a remarkable 12x optical zoom, equivalent to a 35 to 430 millimeter lens on a 35mm film camera. While a film camera with an optical zoom this powerful would be so big and heavy you couldn’t handle it with one hand, the digital Panasonic Leica DMC-FZ7K small, lightweight and easy to handle.
The camera also features Panasonic’s advanced MEGA Optical Image Stabilizer, which helps eliminate blurry pictures.
The Panasonic Leica DMC-FZ7K also features a large, 2.5-inch diagonal LCD and a Power LCD function. Simply touch the power LCD button, and the display becomes about 40 percent brighter for easier viewing on sunny days. The camera also has the world’s first developed high-angle LCD feature, which makes it easier to check the LCD when you need to hold the camera high over a crowd to take a shot.
While spending time with the family this Christmas you can capture those memories with the Fujifilm FinePix S2000Hd.
Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD, 10MP, 12x Wide Angle Optical Zoom (28 – 414mm), 2.7″ Wide View LCD, Face Detection w/Auto Red Eye Removal, High Speed Continuous Shooting 13.5 fps for 33 frames (3MP), HD Shooting Mode for still and movie 720p MPEG4, SD/SD-HC Compatible Media Slot.
Intelligent Flash automatically calculates subject position, distance, and brightness of the scene, instantly adjusting ISO sensitivity and flash output to ensure optimum exposure of the subject and clear background detail.
Face Detection instantly identifies faces and optimizes focus and exposure, ensuring attractive people pictures every time. Selectable red-eye removal automatically detects and corrects red-eye reflections, ensuring beautiful flash portraits and party pictures.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 10.1 MP Digital Camera with 12x Wide Angle MEGA Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3 inch LCD.
The new Lumix ZS3 features 10.1-megapixels, a 25mm ultra-wide-angle lens and 12x optical zoom, meaning it has added 2x optical zoom to the award-winning TZ-series camera, yet reduced its size. The ZS3 also features a Leica DC Vario-Elmar lens and High Definition (HD) video recording ability, known as AVCHD Lite.
the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 is an awesome camera, unbeatable for those that want the best of both worlds- a great zoom lens and compact body.
Just take one more picture. It doesn’t cost much and the rewards may be ten fold. Buy a memory card or a camera from my store. Just take more frickin photos. I take ten or twelve on any givin shot and adjust the f stop or shutter speed. Its called bracketing. When you find a shot that you think you might like and are not sure how it may come out. Then you bracket by adjusting the f stop or shutter speed up and down. work with your meter to see if you are in the ball park and then play with it.
It is kind of like steppping up and down with your shutter speed and f stop. Remember the larger number f stop the longer the depth of field. ( that means more of the picture will be in focus). From foreground to background. The Nikon D40 can make all of this happen. If you want to do this kind of bracketing you will need a DSLR or a camera with manual settings.

Many people underestimate how difficult it can be to capture the movements and behavior of wild animals on camera. It’s often important that the shots are taken with extreme candidness. The slightest false move can scare an animal away and ruin a potentially great photo shoot. Anytime I see an involved nature program on TV – especially the Discovery series “Planet Earth,” I am left in awe at the persistence and talent those cameramen and women display.
Over the years, I’ve picked up a few tips for getting great shots of animals with my Nikon Coolpix digital camera. The first and most important rule is never to worry about taking too many shots. Once I find a good angle, I take a long sequence of photos knowing that later on I can sort through them and pick out the ones that turned out best. Second, one must try to stay as still as possible unless actually panning the camera purposefully to one side or the other.