Panasonic was the first maker to introduce a pocket-sized superzoom, and the TZ10 is the latest version. It has a 12x super-wideangle zoom, automatic and manual control and shoots HD movies.
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‘Prosumer’ describes a camera aimed somewhere between ‘consumers’ and ‘professionals’. It’s not an SLR, but it has many of the controls and features of an SLR and is aimed at more advanced photographers.
So are prosumer cameras worth considering? Yes, as long [...]
You set the shutter speed, the camera sets the aperture required to give the correct exposure. Shutter priority mode is often chosen for action photography where you need to be sure of high shutter speeds, or pictorial photography where you [...]
This is the simplest kind of automatic exposure mode and it’s found on every digital camera. What the camera does is measure the light level and then choose a combination of shutter speed and lens aperture which will produce the [...]
This is shorthand for saying a camera has programmed auto-exposure, aperture-priority, shutter-priority and manual modes. They’re based around the fact that cameras have two means of getting the exposure right: the shutter speed (the length of the exposure) and the lens [...]
You choose the shutter speed and aperture yourself. The camera will still provide an exposure reading (and suggested combinations of shutter speed and aperture) but you’re perfectly free to ignore them.