Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX78 12.1MP Digital Camera, 3.5 inch 16x9 LCD Monitor, Leica DC Vario-Summarit Lens, 1920x1080 Full HD Video, Black

The Panasonic DMCFX78K 12.1MP Digital Camera features an elegant body shape and a variety of chic colors. But it's more than just attractive, thanks to a host of advanced functions that capture stunning photos and full HD movies. Stylish enough to look like a fashion accessory, it will preserve precious memories of parties and other events with its incredible image quality as you carry it wherever you go. The DMC-FX78 gives you smooth, free, touch-control shooting. Your subject is instantly brought into auto focus by simply touching the image on the large, 3.5-inch LCD. You can also operate the auto focus and shutter release at the same time with just a touch and the Sonic Speed AF system provides fast, accurate AF performance for an entirely new style of shooting.

The DMC-FX78 is equipped with a 3.5-inch 16:9 LCD with 230,000-dot high-resolution and a wide-viewing angle. The big screen reflects fine details, making it easy to check the focus before shooting. It also serves as a small photo and video viewer, allowing you and friends to enjoy viewing the still and motion images together.

According to the rise of movie recording popularity, digital cameras are now more compatible with it. The DMC-FX78 has recording capability of full HD 1,920 x 1,080 movies in AVCHD format despite its slim, stylish body. The AVCHD format features almost doubling the recording time in HD quality compared with conventional Motion JPEG. In addition, a host of options enhance the usability and fun of recording high quality full HD movie. Despite its compact, slim and stylish look, the DMC-FX78 offers versatile ways of recording memories not only in beautiful photo but also in high quality movie with ultimate ease of operation.

The DMC-FX78 features a 5x optical zoom lens (35mm camera equivalent: 24-120mm). This gives you highly natural expressions from people and animals that you can't get close to. The 5x optical zoom can be increased its power to 6.5x equivalent with the Intelligent Zoom function. Furthermore, the Extra Optical Zoom function that extends zoom power to 9.8x by using the center part of the large CCD brings subjects even closer.