A Special Giveaway – My new travel buddy, the Panasonic Lumix TZ10

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang.

I was and still am totally thrilled to be offered the opportunity to test out the new Panasonic Lumix TZ10. The reviews that I have read have been pretty good. I spent the last week taking it everywhere I went. The new Panasonic Lumix TZ10 comes with a  25mm wide-angle, 12x optical zoom, LEICA lens camera. Pretty impressive specs. So what did I think of it?

Panasonic Lumix TZ10

I was very excited to test out the GPS tagging system on the Panasonic Lumix TZ10. You should see the big stupid grin on my face when it picked up a suburb that I was catching a train from.  As many GPS system, it isn’t as accurate as we want it to be and often a delay in picking up a new location. The other to thing to note is that the GPS is still active when the camera is turned off but will turned itself off when the battery is about a third left.

Capture train

The EXIF data which is the standard location information is picked up by Flickr when I uploaded this photo to test out this functionality. This makes travel photos a breeze to tag and organise! Absolutely love it! No more manual tagging on the map. Save time and pain!

Flickr exif

I am a food blogger so obviously, I love close up shots of food. I baked some cookies over the weekend and played around with matcha powder (can you sense a matcha post coming up soon?). Just to note, the skies were pretty dull on the day. I made use of the manual mode for this test shot. It is really easy to adjust the aperture and shutter speed from the buttons at the back. For a seasoned compact and DSLR user, there is little use for the manual provided. It did not take me too long to get use to the camera and the menus and buttons on the camera.

I am pretty rapped about this shot. What do you think?

Matcha powder

And another close up shot of  a orange and rhuburb friand that I had at the Slow Food farmers market on the weekend. Snap and away and by the way, it did pick up Abbotsford on the GPS. #scored #win

orange rhuburb friand

With a 25mm wide angle lens, I could capture much more into a single photo. It is great for landscape and to fit a big group of friends in.

Abbotsford Convent

This next shot was taken while I made a mad dash to The Langham. The Panasonic Lumix TZ10 has introduced the Panasonic Intelligent Auto (iA) mode. It came in really handy.  When I pointed at the building, it was intuitive enough to switch to a night scene mode and away I snapped. This photo was taken one-handed and I am pretty impressed that it captured the image without much trouble and with just a small blur. The Panasonic Lumix TZ10 comes with a double hand-shake correction. I guess if I used both hands instead of one on the move, this photo would have been much better and sharper!

One important thing to note, the Panasonic Lumix TZ10 comes with 55 scene modes! And guess what, there is even a food mode! And the self-portrait mode actually tracks where your face is.

Crown at night

Overall, I love the sturdiness of the Panasonic Lumix TZ10 and I believed that they’ve nailed the ergometrics. It just feels right. It is a little bigger than the usual compact but it’s packed functionality certainly make up for it. The other thing that I loved is the big 3inch LCD screen and I had no issues viewing the photos under bright sunlight.

This 12.1 Megapixels compact camera is now retailing at $650. If you need more information on specs, please head over to Panasonic Lumix TZ10 to find out more. Or please feel free to leave a comment with the question and I can try and answer them the best I can. Or even take some test shots and send it across to you

A very SPECIAL GIVEAWAY for all my blog readers, you just need to answer this question and stand a chance to win a Panasonic Lumix TZ10! The competition closing date is Friday, 3 September at 11.59pm (AEST) so make sure you’ve got your entry in by then. (Only open to Australian residents aged 14 years and over)

Where in the World would you take the Panasonic Lumix TZ10 and what photo would you take?

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