Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ48 unveiled

Panasonic has catered for those of us craving something a bit more feature-packed than the Lumix DMC-LS5 budget snapper announced earlier today by popping the lid off the new Lumix DMC-FZ48 – an upgrade over last year’s FZ45. A new hi-speed CCD capable of shooting full HD video should make up for the slight drop to 12.1MP, and an improved 3in 460k LCD should display and frame shots rather nicely. 

A photo mode which stitches together a 3D image from 20 consecutive photos while panning will no doubt appeal to our inner geeks and the 24x optical zoom should. An intelligent zoom function is also able to beef up the power from 24x to 32x and we’re told that the picture quality won’t suffer too much from the added digital zoom. Again, no pricing or release details as of yet but we’ll diligently scan the horizon for more details as they arrive.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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