Test scenes from New York, shot on with a Panasonic Lumix TZ7 / ZS3

Some scenes from New York. Fireworks from Philadelphia. Clouds shot from the KLM flight getting there. :-)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• AVCHD Lite
• Panasonic
• TZ7
• ZS3

[unzarjones]

the fireworks show one flaw in common with Cannon cameras and that's the spiking lines when you get flashes of light against a dark background.

[osaebo]

I know. This is a feature of the type of chips used in these cameras. If you want better night videos, you have to up the price a bit.

[subarianEra]

I want this camera, unfortunately I am very picky. I hate the interface, how the settings are like windows 98 themed :( and the on and off switch is a switch. Gosh darnit, I need to suck it up! Cause this is an amazing camera

[osaebo]

It is a nice camera yes. The menus work well, but are a bit old fashioned yes. :-)

[patrismurcia]

how can you edit .MTS (AVCHD) videos? I bought a Mac specially for this video editing but iMovie doesn't recognize the format, same as .MPG do I need Final Cut? :S

[osaebo]

Macs should be able to edit AVCHD. But you can also just change the recording mode in the camera to Motion-JPEG (MOV) and you should be fine. I actually think the videos looks nicer that way. Higher bitrate helps!

[AzfarulGiantz]

somebody pls bring me to new york ;(

[sleepytyme]

what card did you use? apparently the zs3/tz7 makes beeping noises with some class6 memory cards.

[ericgoujon]

:-)

[Pegisto]

@osaebo In which way you think are the videos better? In AVCHD or MOV?

[kilichallenge10]

Hi, what settings do you use for shooting video?

Ive tried using manual settings and iA but whenever I copy it onto my computer the quality is appalling compared to what I see on the screen, as well as other people's footage on here. The end result is just jerky and there is a lot of noise (visual rather than audio noise).

Any ideas why? I'm using a Class 2 SDHC card (16gb Sandisk). Would a higher class card make much difference or am I doing something seriously wrong?

Thanks in advance :)

[sashmuscle]

The video quality looks phenomenal. I'm dying to get this camera but they don't have it in stock at the moment as it is replaced by the inferior zS7 as far as picture quality goes.

[sarangkorean]

otherwise, are you able to (very little) edit video on the camera, like cutting part in the begining or something like that...

last, could you make a video of the menus, mostly pictures viewing? i'd like io see how's the navigation system in this.

[sarangkorean]

what i can't understand how can the image be so steady while you use full zoom and holding it in your hand?

[vine139]

Hi all im looking for some response from people with the panasonic lumix TZ7, you see i have just brought one and im a complete novice. When im recording in video mode if i zoom in on something or out, when you play it back to watch you can hear me zooming quite clearly? especially if, say its a quite room?. should it be like this. cheers.

[huy2h11]

I bought a 8gig memory card at bestbuy and i only can record in hd for 8 mins, any ideas?