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With a wide-angle, megazoom lens, a fast AF system, and generally high-quality snapshot photos, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZR1 is a standout compact megazoom.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZR1‘s modest outer casing doesn’t wander from the firm’s other compact megazoom cameras, but what’s within does with a re-engineered autofocus system, an ultracompact, wide-angle lens with 8x zoom, and a reconditioned optical image stabilization system. Add in fast performance and superb photograph quality and you get a pretty great pocketable megazoom camera.

A silver plastic Mode dial on top permits you to simply slip between shooting options ; so simply that it often wanted to be reset after taking it out and in of a pocket or case. And , you have got to reach over it to press the shutter release and use the zoom ring, which might trouble some users. Otherwise, the leftover controls on back are comparatively massive, simple to use, and logically prepared. Worth discussing is the Extended Optical Zoom ( E.Zoom ) button next to the thumb rest, which quickly zooms the lens utterly out with one touch. This effectively gives you a longer zoom, but not at full resolution making its name confusing. Press the button a 3rd time and the lens goes back to its beginning position.

Overall, the photos produced by the ZR1 are superb to fantastic, depending on if you care about how photos look when viewed or published at the full 4,000×3,000-pixel resolution. There’s visible noise at all ISOs, but it is not till ISO four hundred that it and noise suppression mix to melt detail.