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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 video review

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The Panasonic Lumic DMC-TZ10 is a well-designed, solidly built and extremely versatile camera with a lot of useful features. The 12x zoom, optical image stabilisation, HD video and excellent low light performance are the main benefits, and manual exposure is a nice bonus. The GPS feature is a bit of a gimmick, and drains the battery too fast to be much real use but it can be turned off. Read full review

Overall

9/10

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By Cliff Smith
Reviewed 26 February 2010
Updated 26 May 2011

Price as reviewed

£208.30

  • Review
    • 1: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10
    • 2: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10
    • 3: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10
    • 4: Features Table
    • 5: Test Shots - ISO Performance
    • 6: Test Shots - Detail And Lens...
    • 7: Test Shots - Exposure Evaluation
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  • Reviewed by Cliff Smith
  • 26 February 2010
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 details

Value
8/10
Image Quality
8/10
Build Quality
10/10
Overall
9/10

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • All-metal build
  • 12x zoom lens (25-300mm)
  • Versatile
  • Great handling
  • Manual controls

Cons

  • GPS drains battery
  • Image quality only average

Price as reviewed

£208.30

Manufacturer

Panasonic

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mick / LUMIX

11:10 AM on 26 February, 2010

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Cliff, not sure what you mean by "new" low ISO of 80 when the TZ7 also has ISO 80 ?, anyway, another interesting review.

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12:15 PM on 26 February, 2010

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A thorough review, well done. But I'm confused by your 'major concern' about battery life: the words major concern seem pretty strong for me, and 80 shots, is this not a massive flaw? Yet this concern, despite its gravity, seems brushed under the carpet in your review. It's almost as if you're secretly hoping that you received a bad battery, or that it's just not true, as I gather this site has normally been very pro-Panasonic. But 80 shots? Surely this is devastatingly poor performance. Could you please shed more light on this, I'm depply puzzled by the lack of gravity you assign to this alleged show stopper!

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1:55 PM on 26 February, 2010

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"The TZ10's image quality is, I must admit, slightly disappointing."





"I do have one very major concern about the TZ10, and that is battery duration."





9/10?

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Hans Gruber

3:41 PM on 26 February, 2010

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The battery life of the TZ6 is also pretty abysmal and there was me hoping for a firmware update to fix this issue. I was also suspicious of the reason why it was never reviewed, with its higher pixel density and smaller sensor size in comparison to every other TZ model released thus far. The TZ10 may also exhibit poor design/manufacturing process? I hope this isn't true.

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Andy0d2

4:18 PM on 26 February, 2010

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Still having a great time using my TZ5. Lasts about 300 shots.

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GJL

5:08 PM on 26 February, 2010

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The battery news is bad for those who want full-time GPS. I think, though, that I'd use it infrequently and have always carried a spare battery on those adventures.





OTOH - a full day of playing tourist would probably run through several batteries if I were using the TZ rather than my DSLR. I'm thinking of a boat trip, Westminster to Hampton Court, that provided wonderful shots of buildings, bridges, etc. that I cannot identify.





I'd be using batteries faster than I could recharge them. And turning the GPS on intermittently is a pain owing to the time it takes to re-acquire the birds. Maybe I'll skip the 10 in favor of the 8 and live with the smaller screen and motion JPEG.





Never mind. I like the LCD a lot. I'd probably get the 10 for the improved stabilization and manual controls and leave the GPS off mostly. That suggests waiting for 6-12 months for the price to drop. OK with me. My ZS-3/TZ-7 works fine, thank you.

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6:35 PM on 26 February, 2010

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How on earth have Panny managed to screw up the image quality after getting it so right with the TZ7 (which I own)?





Battery on my TZ7 seems fine and barely drains when the camera is switched off for months.

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7:27 PM on 26 February, 2010

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@johnbaker - Do you have any numbers from other cameras with build in GPS to compare with? Would be quite useful before making such a drastic conclusion.





I agree that 80 shots pretty much makes GPS a bit of a gimmick in this case though. It will at least still do around 300 shots with GPS turned off, but then you could just as well buy a camera without the integrated GPS.

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11:50 PM on 26 February, 2010

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... you ask the question is there anything this camera does not have...? Yes... a viewfinder...

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12:47 PM on 27 February, 2010

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Quite so, Terry and for me a dealbreaker. I'll stick with my FZ18 for now.

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