Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 Review

Karin Brussaard · Issue 41, Mar/Apr 2008 · pp. 27–28

Products mentioned: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3, Panasonic DMW-MCTZ3 underwater housing, Leica DC Vario Elmar lens

The Panasonic Lumix TZ3 with 7.2 million pixels is such a camera. This camera is also called a Traveler Zoom camera. The Lumix TZ3 features 10x optical zoom and offers a 28mm wide angle. Often cameras with large zoom ranges such as the one on the Lumix TZ3 are also of a large size but Panasonic succeeded in keeping the camera quite small. Therefore it is a perfect camera for underwater shooting. And the good thing about the 28mm wide angle is that you don’t have to carry along a wide angle lens in your usually already overweight luggage. The underwater housing, the DMW-MCTZ3 has been made of polycarbonate and is waterproof until a depth of 40 meters. Nearly all the functions can be operated underwater. The camera slides into the underwater housing with ease and opening the housing is also effortless. Even when there is pressure on the housing you don’t have to force anything. The underwa…