The camera also claims to have no shutter lag, so that it snaps the instant you touch the shutter button.
Never touch the shutter blades.
It also has one option whose absence from the iPhone's own camera app is baffling: a setting that allows a user to snap a photo by touching the screen anywhere, rather than touching just the virtual shutter release.
The LUMIX FX78's Smart Touch Screen allows for the Auto Focus (AF) to be set by simply touching the subject on the LCD and a touch can even release the shutter.
Rather than having to physically touch the camera (and therefore potentially wobble it), a shutter release cable allows you to take the shot without touching the camera again once it's set up.
SECAUCUS, NJ (January 25 , 2011 – Panasonic today expands its LUMIX FX-Series of stylish and compact digital cameras, with the LUMIX FX78, which features a new Smart Touch operation on the large 3.5-inch 16:9 aspect LCD, allowing for intuitive touch operation, including Touch AF, Touch Zoom, Touch Shutter, and Touch Playback.
When some of them touched him and the shutters in front of his eyes opened, they gasped and smiled.
The LUMIX ZS10 continues its versatility with a 24mm ultra-wide-angle and powerful 16x optical zoom LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens – and it features full-High Definition 1920×1080 video recording capability, a newly-adopted large 3.0-inch, 460,000-dot Smart Touch Intelligent LCD – which allows for Touch Zoom, Touch Auto Focus (AF), Touch Shutter, and Touch Playback.
The person wearing the apparatus is temporarily blind as motorized shutters are closed over their eyes, but when their skin is touched by another person, the shutters spin open and the camera on top of the helmet snaps a photo, which is then displayed on an LCD screen on the back of the helmet.
Like a wave of tornadoes touching down, the FDIC struck across the country on Friday shuttering five banks from coast to coast.
