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    Rick Dreher
    BPL Member

    @halfturbo

    Locale: Northernish California

    New to me, anyway, is the poetically named Lumix TS1/FT1 (name varies depending on what slice of the globe on which you dwell). It offers the equally poetic "AVCHD Lite Motion Picture Recording," which I translate as HD video.

    http://www.panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/ts1_ft1/index.html

    Shape and layout echo similar WP models from Pentax and Olympus, but the feature set seems unique. 28mm wide angle is a big plus. 184g w/ battery and card.

    Historically, the optics of these folded lens compacts have left a lot to be desired, but every new design is an opportunity to get it right. Leica's participation might offer a step forward here.

    *If* you desire bombproof and *if* you desire HD video, this could be the pocket cam for you. You can even match the color to your new Jetboil.

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    John Carter
    Member

    @jcarter1

    Locale: Pacific Northwest

    Rick,

    Thanks for the head up; I've owned 3 Panasonic cameras now and have loved them all. Great to see them enter the waterproof market. I'm now torn between this camera and their other big announcement today: the ZS3 (TZ7), with a 25-300mm lens, HD video, and stereo audio recording, billing itself as the first 'true hybrid' camera/camcorder.

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    Robert Bryant
    Member

    @kg4fam

    Locale: Upstate

    At least I had hope for a few seconds that there might be a good waterproof camera that used AA batteries. Doesn't say anything about USB charging either. All I want is a standard of some nature so I don't have to carry around a bunch of charging crap.

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    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Hi Rick

    Interesting.
    No manual mode as far as I could see?

    Cheers

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    Rick Dreher
    BPL Member

    @halfturbo

    Locale: Northernish California

    Hi Roger,

    As far as I can glean from the specs, there's no manual focus, no A mode, no S mode and no M mode. There is exposure compensation and autobracketing (buried how far within the menu?), manual ISO, manual color balance adjustment and a raft of focus modes.

    Definitely not a photographic surgical kit, but depending on how Panny's done with image quality and responsiveness it might be worth a look among the camera-bashing set. IMHO Panny has done more things right with their compact cameras recently than any other large company.

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