Simple Operation with Advanced Intelligent Auto Mode

28mm Wide angle 5x Optical Zoom Lens with f/2.8 Brightness

The DMC FH3 boasts a newly developed 28mm wide angle* 5x optical zoom f/2.8 6.9 LUMIX DC VARIO lens (35mm camera equivalent: 28 140mm) suitable compact body. Comprising 6 elements in five groups, including 3 aspherical lenses with 5 aspherical surfaces, this advanced lens unit realizes the outstandingly slim and compact body yet achieving exceptional optical performance.
* Transformed into standard 35mm camera equivalent, along the maximum wide position.

The 28mm wide angle lens* helps you to easily capture large groups of people indoors or expansive architectural structures and scenes with dynamic width and rich perspective, even from short distances.
* Changed into standard 35mm camera equivalent, from the maximum wide position.

The DMC FH3 has a 5x optical contact lens (35mm camera equivalent: 28 140mm). Extra Optical Zoom function*1 uses the center area of the CCD to increase this 5x zoom ratio to powerful 10.5x zoom (35mm camera equivalent: 294mm) on a resolution of 3 megapixel or less. Adding the particular Optical Zoom towards 4x digital zoom* extends the total zooming power to at the most 42x.

MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) Shake Detection

The MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer)* on the DMC FH3 compensates for your blurring from hand shake. Even slight hand shake movement is accurately detected with a sampling frequency of four years old,000 times per second, and compensated to generate sharp, clear images. The Venus Engine IV controls the shifting of this blur stopping lens with increased precision the strain boost the detection accuracy and correction effect of MEGA O.I.S. It reallyworks for zoom shots and macro shots, which can be especially vulnerable to hand shake, and permit you to shoot in dimly lit rooms or evening illumination to preserve the climate. To put it briefly, it lets anybody take beautiful, blur free shots in no time.
* MEGA O.I.S. is automatically activated in iA Mode that will be switched on or off in Normal Picture Mode or some Scene Modes.

Sonic Speed AF

The Sonic Speed AF system inside the DMC FH3 (provides a maximum speed of approx. 0.35 second for auto focusing*. It includes numerous re engineering enhancements, including a higher speed actuator, optimized algorithms and parallel software processing. The actual result is fast and accurate AF performance. It's easy to get up subjects in focus, like if you're shooting sports scenes.

Extended Battery Life

The energy saving Venus Engine IV image processing engine as well as efficient, rechargeable lithium ion battery which has been slimmed as small as fit into thinner camera bodies have interaction to give the shooting time in the DMC FH3. This lets users take approx. 310 shots for a passing fancy battery charge*.
* While using CIPA standard.