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Review: Panasonic TZ57 (ZS45)

March 30, 2015

Via: itCurated
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Launched at the same time as the TZ70, the TZ57 is intended as the TZ70’s more affordable sibling. For the reduction in cost, you inevitably get a reduction in features (there’s a shorter zoom, no raw format shooting and no viewfinder), but you are still left with some pretty appealing specs for travel photographers.

The TZ57 features a 16 million pixel high-sensitivity MOS sensor, and a 20x optical zoom which gives you an equivalent focal length of 28-560mm in 35mm terms. There’s also a digital zoom which boosts that reach to 40x.

Although not touch sensitive, the three-inch, 1,040k dot LCD screen tilts to face all the way forward, making it ideal for selfies, but also useful when framing other awkward shots.

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