My wife Amanda is also a photographer.  She’s not all about having the best camera or lenses in her bag.  She will use whatever is available.  For her, it is about the moment and not about how sharp or correctly the image is exposure.   She normally carry her little Canon PowerShot SD850 IS point and shoot everywhere she goes.  Its light, compact and fits in her handbag.   Last week I decided it was time for an upgrade.   As we all know, the shutter lag on a point and shoot can be very annoying, especially when we are trying to capture Dylan, who wouldn’t stop for 1 second to have his pictures taken.   I search and search and came up with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3.  This camera is nice.   I got it in blue.  Oh and guess where I got it at??   My favorite camera store Adorama. And I had to honor to meet a very good man, Joel Meisels.  Anyway, here are a few spec that got me interested.

25-300mm
10.1 megapixels
movie/motion mode in 720p (AVCHD Lite HD)
The ISO can go as high as 6400
it has an optical Image Stabilization
3″ LCD screen….
and have lots of pre-set mode to play around with.

We, l meant she is still testing the camera and playing around with it.   I did use the movie mode at the Apothecary Hymns show last week for the first time.    Note: The three images on that blog were taken with the band’s camera, Canon Powershot G9.  Only the Video clip was done with this Panasonic DMC-ZS3.  if you are interested, you can see the 2 minutes clip here.   I didn’t change the setups – only using default or whatever the camera was setup were when I opened the box.    Right now I am happy with it….  I mean my wife is very happy with it.

if you interested to learn more about the camera she has..  here’s the direct link on their website.  Panasonic DMC-ZS3