Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX12K 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black)

La camara era de segunda mano, el vendedor mintio acerca que estaba perfecta, la imagen salia con unas lineas horizontales en todas las fotos, hasta que un dia dejo de funcionar.

I absolutely love my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX3! It’s definitely one of the more affordable alternatives to Canon, Sony, or Nikon models, but it still holds up really well. If you’re looking for that classic digital camera effect, this is a great choice. The photos can be a bit blurry at times, but I think that’s more on me, I probably haven’t played around with the settings enough to fine-tune it. Overall, I’m really satisfied with it! A solid budget-friendly option that still delivers.Photo below is of my cat Lola, the best model ever taken with the camera with flash & the lights in my room were on, it was fairly bright outside too.

After doing lots of research, I finally bought this camera to replace my Canon SD10 (from 2005), and here's my experience with it compare to the SD10.Pro:* Size remains compact, fits easily in a pocket.* Faster startup.* More responsive menu/feature buttons.* More intuitive user interface.* Logical placement of buttons.* Solid and attractive fit and finish.* LCD screen have very bright settings.* Very long battery life (I actually returned the spare battery that I bought for this camera).* Optical image stablizer really works, but only to a small extend (which means you still have to try your best to hold the camera steady)Con:* I know that most compact cameras with 1/2.5" CCD don't perform well in low light condition, but this Panasonic DMC-FX12X is even worst then my old Canon SD10! Even when I lock the ISO at 100, there're still a lot of noise in the photos. After I turned on the lights in my room (at night), turned off the image stablizer, and hold the camera steady (which I'm very good at), the photos still turned out softer and noisier than my SD10! (Yes, like one of the reviewers said, if your change the color setting to Vivid, the photo will become shaper, but the colors would look exagerrated).* Most of the time when I point the camera towards an object with sunlight in the background, I would see some purple streaks on the LCD screen. (Although those streaks disappeared once I zoomed-in during playback, display it on the computer monitor, or print it out).* Despite having a much larger LCD screen than my SD10 (only 1.5"), this Panasonic's screen quality is not as sharp. In fact it's not sharp at all; the photos I took always look blurry/soft on its LCD screen, I had to either zoom in or display them on my computer monitor in order to see how sharp the photos actually are! For the first time I realize how misleading the resolution figure on a LCD screen can be.* Whether I use the built-in memory or my Kingston 4GB Class-6 SD card, it's slower to "write" the pictures into the memory after they're captured, and this is when I'm not using flash! Again, I'm comparing it to my old SD10 camera with 32MB SD card.Conclusion:I was really thrilled when I first received this camera after only 2 days of ordering it from Amazon.com (I chose the Standard shipping). After an hour of playing with various features and reading the manual, I've learned all the features on this camera. Unfortunately in the following 48 hours, I was disappointed numerous times and decided to mail it back to Amazon. It's a painful experience because I really want to like and keep this camera (due to it's price, size, style, finish, etc). Now I think I would choose a compact camera with a larger CCD size (e.g. 1/1.8") even if it doesn't have an optical image stabilizer.

I've always been a fan of Panasonic's Optical Image Stabilizers on their Lumix line of cameras. The DMC-FX12 was quite the steal at under $200. Very compact camera without sacrificing image quality (at least not too much). There have been testimonies stating that the images produced from the DMC-FX12 are soft, but you can fix that by changing the color mode to "vivid" and presto, sharper images. The only gripe I have with this compact performer is that anything from ISO 800 and higher provides very noisy images. Most of the low light shots I've taken (minus the flash with color mode set to 'natural') were acceptable, but quite noisy. This camera has a quality Leica lens which helps contribute to some crisp images. Other than that, the flash is decent and under normal lighting conditions, you get some pretty darn good images (the image stabilizer makes a huge difference). This is a point-and-shoot camera and people tend to expect SLR quality images from a point-and-shoot camera. I have yet to come across a p&s shooter that comes anywhere close to SLR quality. As for the DMC-FX12, it's compact, great for point-and-shoot casual shooting, and worth every penny. I was in debate of whether to get this shooter or the DMC-FX30 but I wasn't about to shell out another extra $100 for a difference of 7mm of focal length between the 2 shooters. I chose the DMC-FX12 due to price and the image quality.

This camera takes very good photos in the day, but awful photos at night. What I didn't like about this camera, is that you will need a tripod to take pictures if you are taking photos without flash or in an ambient with poor light, because your are going to get awful pictures.When you take pictures and you watch them on the display, you think they look beautiful, but when you download to the computer, you will see that some are shaken.Look for another camera. I am very sure that there are better than this one.

I recently purchased this camera through amazon. If I were to purchase again, I would probably choose the comparable Sony or Canon model. While I appreciated the Japanese quality of the camera, the performance left much to be desired: my first outing with the camera was to a high school dance that I had organized, and I could see nothing through the digital viewfinder--there is no standard window viewfinder--and this inability to see anything, mixed with focusing and color problems, led to horrible photos. I also found the camera's function controls, as well as the bundled software, to be very non-intuitive, with a large number of commands required for navigation. I do not recommend this camera for general purpose use, particularly among buyers who may wish to take photos in darker environments and/or do not want to spend great amounts of time reading and rereading the user's guide to ensure proper functioning of the camera.