Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 Review

March 18, 2015 | Amy Davies | Rating star Rating star Rating star Rating star

Introduction

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 (also known as the DMC-ZS45) is pitched as a travel camera and was announced at the same time as the TZ70, being a more affordable version of that camera.

It has a 16 million pixel Live MOS sensor, along with a 20x optical zoom which offers an equivalent of 28-560mm in 35mm terms. A digital zoom is also available which doubles that focal length.

Unlike on the TZ70 there’s no viewfinder, no ability to shoot in raw format, and the zoom itself is not as lengthy (the TZ70 offers 30x).

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ577’s three-inch screen tilts all the way forward and is designed to appeal to selfie-lovers, but it is not touch sensitive. Other specifications include full HD video recording, inbuilt Wi-Fi and the ability to take full manual control over settings.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 retails for £229.99 / $299.99.

Ease of Use

You can find smaller 20x optical zoom compact cameras on the market than the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57, but it’s still pretty pocket friendly (so long as your pockets are fairly loose). On top of the camera you’ll find a mode dial which allows you to change between the various exposure modes on offer. There’s the usual semi-automatic and manual modes (P/A/S/M) as well as intelligent Auto, Scene, Creative Control, Panoramic and two slots for groups of custom settings, which you can use if you like to often shoot one particular type of scene.

Also on top of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 is the on/off button and a dedicated Wi-Fi button. These are placed a little too close to each other and it can be very easy to press the Wi-Fi button when you’re trying to switch the camera on, which can be a little frustrating.

The shutter release button can also be found on top of the camera, surrounding by the zoom switch for extending and retracting the lens. This is quite a smooth mechanism and allows you to get from one end of the focal length to the other quickly and easily. If you’ve got digital zoom switched on, the lens will pause briefly before entering the digital realm of the zoom - good news if you’re keeping an eye on only using optical zoom.

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Front of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

Moving to the back of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57, you’ll find all of the buttons grouped on the right hand side which makes it very easy to use with just your right hand. There’s a four way navigational pad, with each directional key assigned to a particular function. Left controls self-timer, up accesses exposure compensation, down switches on or off macro focusing, while right accesses flash functions.

Just above the navigational pad, you’ll find a button labelled Exposure. You use this to allow you to use the directional keys to alter shutter speed, aperture, or both. Since there’s no control ring around the lens as you will find on the TZ70, you must press this first. Once you have, pressing the up and down key controls shutter speed (if you’re in shutter priority or manual mode), while left and right controls aperture (if you’re in aperture priority or manual mode).

Next to the Exposure button is a playback button. Once you’re in Playback, you can press the up button to enter a “Retouch” section, where you can add a digital filter to your image. Both the original and the new image with the filter will be saved. Above the playback button, you’ll find a dedicated video record button - it’s a little indented, making it difficult to accidentally press and waste memory card space with accidental video recording.

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Rear of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

The final two buttons on the back of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 are a display button, which gives you various viewing options, such as activating a rule of thirds of grid, and a Quick Menu button. This button gives you quick access to a range of often used settings, such as sensitivity (ISO) and white balance. It would be nice if you could customise this menu if you find you’re not using everything within it all that often, but you can’t. The Quick Menu button doubles up as a delete button when in playback, or as a Back button when scrolling through menus.

For making more extensive settings, you can head to the Menu, which is accessed via the button in the middle of the navigational pad. This menu is fairly sensibly arranged and doesn’t take too much getting used to once you’ve investigated it for a while.

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Top of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

One of the settings you’ll find within the quick menu is autofocusing mode. Sadly, there is no way to set a single specific autofocus point which is a little frustrating for a camera which has complete manual control otherwise. Your options are to let the camera choose from one of 21 points, to use a central autofocus point and focus and recompose or to use Face Detection or Tracking AF modes.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57’s screen tilts forward to face the front of the camera on what feels like a pretty secure hinge. By doing this, self-portrait mode will be automatically activated - but you can switch this off via the Main Menu if you prefer. Self-portrait mode means that a three-second countdown timer will display before the shutter is released, giving you time to pose for the portrait. There are also skin smoothing and background defocus options which you can switch on or off. The tilting screen is not only useful for self-portraits, but also for other awkward angles, such as if you’re shooting from very low down. As it doesn’t tilt the other way, it’s not useful for shooting from above, though.

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Tilting LCD Screen

If you want to get a little bit creative with your shots, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 affords you a couple of different options. There’s a filters mode which gives you the choice of 15 different options, such as Toy Camera and One Point Color. You simply scroll to the filter you want to use and press OK - some of the options have subsets you can choose from, such as Cross Process which offers different cross processed style colours. As there’s no raw format shooting available on the TZ57, if you shoot with a filter, you’ll be stuck with it down the line if you change your mind.

Another creative option is the panoramic mode. Simply select this on the mode dial and then you can pan the camera across the scene while holding down the shutter release button to capture an ultra wide angle of view.

It’s no surprise to see Panasonic include inbuilt Wi-Fi on the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57. This allows you to shoot remotely, or to send images across to your phone or tablet for quick sharing on social networks, via email and so on. The first time you connect the camera to your phone, you can speed the process up by scanning the QR code displayed on the camera’s screen from within the Panasonic Image App. This skips the need to input a password, and from then onwards the connection should be instant.

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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 In-hand

Unfortunately, Panasonic has placed some limitations on what you can control from the app when using the Wi-Fi. Frustratingly, you can see some key settings, such as white balance, are greyed out meaning you can’t change them. Instead, you can control the zoom, exposure compensation and self-timer. It’s useful to an extent, but it would be nice to have been able to make more changes if you wanted to.

Focusing speeds are generally good, especially when shooting in bright light. You can switch to macro focusing if you’re trying to get close to a subject to fill the frame - it’s pretty impressive how close you can get and the camera still manages to focus.

Image Quality

All of the sample images in this review were taken using the 16 megapixel JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 7Mb.

Straight from the camera, JPEG images display a good degree of colour, without being overly saturated. It’s lucky that the JPEG images are good as there’s no option to shoot in raw format.

Detail is also pretty nicely resolved by the 16 million pixel sensor. If you choose to examine an image at 100%, it is possible to see some image smoothing and loss of detail in certain sections of the images, but no more than you’re likely to see in other similar specced cameras - the overall impression at standard printing and web sizes is very good.

Overall, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57’s all purpose metering system does a good job of producing accurate exposures, albeit with a tendency to slightly underexpose in certain conditions. If this happens, you’ll need to add in a touch of exposure compensation, and it’s particularly likely to happen in high contrast conditions.

Pleasingly, the camera’s automatic white balance system produces accurate colours even when faced with artificial lighting conditions. You can change to a more specific white balance setting if you’re noticing warm or yellowish tones under lightbulbs and so on though.

In low light, you can either use the flash or push the sensitivity up. As you move up through the sensitivity range, you will notice some loss of detail and image smoothing if you examine closely, but the good news is that that results in an overall good impression of detail when viewing at normal sizes without too much noise present. At the top sensitivity at ISO 3200, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to make large prints, but it certainly produces useable small images.

It is of course pretty important that a camera that has as one of its key selling points the zoom range performs well at the telephoto end of its optic. Here, at the full 20x stretch of the lens, detail is well retained making it particularly useful for travelling photographers. Although a digital zoom is available, and is handy if you’re really desperate to get closer to the scene, I’d avoid it most of the time as there is a noticeable reduction in detail.

Noise

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 has six sensitivity settings available at full resolution, ranging between ISO100 and ISO3200.

ISO 100 (100% Crop)

ISO 200 (100% Crop)

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ISO 400 (100% Crop)

ISO 800 (100% Crop)

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ISO 1600 (100% Crop)

ISO 3200 (100% Crop)

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Sharpening

Here are two 100% crops which have been Saved as Web - Quality 50 in Photoshop. The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are a little soft at the default sharpening setting and benefit from some further sharpening in a program like Adobe Photoshop. You can change the in-camera sharpening level via the Picture Adjust menu option.

Original (100% Crop)

Sharpened (100% Crop)

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Focal Range

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57's 20x zoom lens provides a very versatile focal length of 28-560mm in 35mm terms, as demonstrated below.

28mm 560mm
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File Quality

Two JPEG compression options can be selected: Fine or Normal.

16M Fine (4.85Mb) (100% Crop) 16M Normal (3.98Mb) (100% Crop)
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Chromatic Aberrations

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 handled chromatic aberrations well during the review, with some purple fringing present around the edges of objects in certain high-contrast situations, as shown in the examples below.

Chromatic Aberrations 1 (100% Crop)

Chromatic Aberrations 2 (100% Crop)

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Macro

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 offers a Macro setting that allows you to focus on a subject that is 3cms away from the camera when the lens is set to wide-angle. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject (in this case a compact flash card). The second image is a 100% crop.

Macro

Macro (100% Crop)

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Flash

The flash settings on the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ70 are Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off. These shots of a white coloured wall were taken at a distance of 1.5m.

Flash Off - Wide Angle (28mm)

Flash On - Wide Angle (28mm)

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Flash Off - Telephoto (560mm)

Flash On - Telephoto (560mm)

ISO 64 ISO 64

And here are some portrait shots with the flash off and on.

Flash Off

Flash Off (100% Crop)
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Flash On

Flash On (100% Crop)
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Night

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57's maximum shutter speed is 60 seconds, which is great news if you're seriously interested in night photography. The shot below was taken using a shutter speed of 4 seconds at ISO 1000. The camera takes the same amount of time again to apply noise reduction, so for example at the 15 second setting the actual exposure takes 30 seconds.

Night

Night (100% Crop)

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Panorama

In the dedicated Panorama shooting mode, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 can automatically create a panorame by simply pressing the shutter button and panning the camera from left to right.

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Sample Images

This is a selection of sample images from the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 camera, which were all taken using the 16 megapixel Fine JPEG setting. The thumbnails below link to the full-sized versions, which have not been altered in any way.

Sample Movie & Video

This is a sample movie at the highest quality setting of 1920x1080 pixels at 25 frames per second. Please note that this 16 second movie is 41.3Mb in size.

Product Images

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Front of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

 
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Front of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

 
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Side of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

 
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Side of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

 
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Rear of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 / Turned On

 
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Rear of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 / Image Displayed

 
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Rear of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 / Main Menu

 
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Rear of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 / Main Menu

 
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Tilting LCD Screen

 

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Tilting LCD Screen

 
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Top of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

 
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Bottom of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57

 
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Side of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57
 
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Side of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57
 
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Front of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57
 
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Front of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57
 
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Memory Card Slot

 
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Battery Compartment

Conclusion

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 offers a good range of specifications for the price, coming in at significantly cheaper than its more advanced sibling, the TZ70. That said, if you do have a little more to spend, it’s worth checking out the top of the range camera as you get a fair bit more for the extra cash.

As it stands, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 works as a no-fuss camera which is excellently suited for holidaying photographers and those looking for something which covers a wide range of bases. If you’re a beginner, the amount of automatic and creative modes is likely to appeal, while those who are more advanced should appreciate being able to change key settings such as aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity (ISO).

Unfortunately though, there are a few limitations which make it a touch frustrating to use in practice if you are an advanced photographers. For starters, there’s the inability to shoot in raw format, which takes away some flexibility. There’s also no way to change the autofocus point, which seems like a bit of an odd choice from Panasonic considering how many of the other settings you can change.

On the plus side, the inbuilt Wi-Fi is useful if you want to remotely control the camera - although of course the fact that you can’t change some settings while using the smartphone or device app is a little strange. The tilting screen is great for selfies, but less useful from other awkward angles, such as holding the camera above your head.

Of primary importance is image quality, and it’s here that the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 impresses, fortunately. Directly from the camera you get some nicely bright and punchy images, with a good amount of detail - especially when viewing at normal printing and web sizes. In low light, the camera also copes reasonably well too, which is nice to see.

A 20x optical zoom is nowhere near the most impressive available on the market, but it does cover a wide enough number of focal lengths to be useful for the majority of situations.

Overall the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 is a great camera for the price with a good range of features - if you’re on a bit of a budget but want something well performing for your holidays without the bulk of a bridge or interchangeable lens camera. Take a peek at the TZ70 if you can though to sort out some of those niggles which prevent the TZ57 being even better than it is.

4 stars

Ratings (out of 5)
Design 4.5
Features 4
Ease-of-use 4
Image quality 4
Value for money 4

Main Rivals

Listed below are some of the rivals of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57.

Canon PowerShot SX710 HS

The Canon PowerShot SX710 HS is a premium travel-zoom camera with a 30x zoom lens in a slim and compact body. The Canon SX710 also offers 20 megapixels, a 3-inch LCD screen, PASM shooting modes, built-in wi-fi/NFC and Full HD 60p movies. Read our in-depth Canon PowerShot SX710 HS review to find out if it's the right travel camera for you...

Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR

The FinePix F900EXR is the range-topping camera from Fujifilm, sporting a 20x lens with a versatile focal range of 25-500mm. The 16 megapixel F900 EXR also features fast phase-detection autofocusing, wireless image transfer, GPS support, full 1080p movies, a high-contrast 3 inch LCD screen and 8fps continuous shooting. Read our in-depth Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR review now...

Nikon Coolpix S9700

The Coolpix S9700 is Nikon's new flagship travel-zoom compact camera. Featuring a 30x zoom lens with a focal range of 25-750mm, the slimline Coolpix S9700 has a 16 megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor, high-resolution 3-inch OLED screen, 7.5fps burst shooting and boasts GPS tracking and wi-fi connectivity. Read our detailed Nikon Coolpix S9700 review now...

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ70

The Lumix DMC-TZ70 is Panasonic's new flagship travel-zoom compact camera for 2014. The 12-megapixel TZ70 (also known as the ZS50) offers a 30x wide-angle zoom lens, lens control ring, RAW file format, focus peaking and an electronic viewfinder. Read our Panasonic DMC-TZ70 review to find out if it's the best travel-zoom camera...

Samsung WB850F

The Samsung WB850 is a new travel-zoom camera with a mouth-watering specification. The WB850 offers a wide-angle 21x zoom lens, 16.2 megapixels, Full 1080p video recording, 3 inch AMOLED screen, built-in wi-fi and GPS, plus full manual controls. Read our detailed Samsung WB850 review to find out if it's a contender for the travel zoom crown.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX60V

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX60V is a new premium travel-zoom camera with a 30x zoom lens. The HX60V also features built-in wi-fi, NFC and GPS, full 1080p high-definition video with stereo sound, a 20 megapixel CMOS sensor, high-resolution 3-inch screen, manual shooting modes, 10fps continuous shooting, ISO range of 100-12800 and fast auto-focusing. Read our Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX60V review to find out if it's the best travel-zoom camera...

Review Roundup

Reviews of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 from around the web.

ephotozine.com »

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ57 updates the TZ55, and offers a higher resolution LCD screen, as well as improved graphical user interface. The front of the camera features a chunky rubber grip, with the rear featuring a tilting "selfie" screen for the perfect "selfie" or group shot.
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Specifications

Metrics Dimensions (W x H x D) 107.9 x 59.9 x 32.1 mm/(4.25 x 2.36 x 1.26 inch)
Weight Approx. 222 g without Battery and SD Memory Card (0.49 lb) *TBD/Approx. 248 g with Battery and SD Memory Card (0.55 lb) *TBD
Pixels Camera Effective Pixels 16 Megapixels
Sensor Sensor Size / Total Pixels / Filter 1/2.33-type High Sensitivity MOS Sensor / Total Pixel Number 17.5 Megapixels / Primary Color Filter
Lens Aperture F3.3 - 6.4 / Multistage Iris Diaphragm (F3.3 - 8.0 (W), F6.4 - 8.0 (T))
Optical Zoom 20x
Focal Length f = 4.3 - 86.0mm (24 - 480mm in 35mm equiv.)/(28 - 560mm in 35mm equiv. in 16:9 video recording)
Extra Optical Zoom (EZ) 28.2x (4:3 / 8M), 45.0x (4:3 / under 3M)
Intelligent Zoom 40x
Lens LUMIX DC VARIO/12 elements in 10 groups/(3 Aspherical Lenses / 6 Aspherical surfaces / 2 ED Lenses)
2- Speed Zoom -
Optical Image Stabilizer/Five Axis Correction POWER O.I.S. (On with Active Mode (only for Motion Picture) / Off) / No
Digital Zoom Max. 4x (Max. 2x for TZ58)
Conversion Lens Compatibility -
Focus Focusing Area Normal: Wide 50cm - infinity / Tele 200cm - infinity/AF Macro / Intelligent Auto / Motion Picture: Wide 3 cm - infinity / Tele 100 cm - infinity
AF Assist Lamp Yes (On/Off)
Focus Normal / AF Macro / Macro Zoom/Quick AF (Always On), Continuous AF (only for motion picture)/AF Tracking
AF Metering Face / AF Tracking / 21-area / 1-area / Spot
Shutter Shutter Speed Approx. 4 - 1/2,000 sec/Starry Sky Mode: 15, 30 sec
Finder Viewfinder -
File File Format Still Image: JPEG (DCF/Exif2.3), DPOF/Motion Picture: MP4
Recording Modes Mode Dial / Mode Button Intelligent Auto, P, A, S, M, C1 (Custom), C2 (Custom), Panorama Shot, Scene, Creative Control
Creative Control mode Expressive, Retro, Old Days, High Key, Low Key, Sepia, Dynamic Monochrome, Impressive Art, High Dynamic, Cross Process, Toy Effect, Miniature Effect, Soft Focus, Star Filter, One Point Color (15 filters)
Still Image Scene Mode Portrait, Soft Skin, Scenery, Sports, Night Portrait, Night Scenery, Handheld Night Shot, Food, Baby1, Baby2, Pet, Sunset, High Sensitivity, Glass Through, HDR, Starry Sky
Continuous Shooting Mode Full-Resolution Image: TBD frames/sec, Max. 10 images/with AF Tracking: 2 frames/sec/High-speed Burst: Approx. 10 frames / sec/(recorded in 3M for 4:3, 2.5M for 3:2, 2M for 16:9, 2.5M for 1:1)/Flash Burst Shooting
Motion Picture Recording (*2) HD Video 1920 x 1080 pixels, 25p (FHD: 20Mbps / MP4) (Sensor Output is 25fps)/1280 x 720 pixels, 25p (HD: 10Mbps / MP4) (Sensor Output is 25fps)
STD Video 640 x 480, 25p (VGA: 4Mbps / MP4) (Sensor Output is 25fps)
High Speed Video -
Continuous recordable time (motion pictures) AVCHD -
MP4 Approx. 100 min (FHD)
Actual recordable time (motion pictures) AVCHD -
MP4 Approx. 50 min (FHD)
Exposure Parameters Exposure Program AE, Aperture Priority AE, Shutter Priority AE, Manual
Exposure Compensation 1/3 EV step, +/-2 EV
Auto (AE) Bracketing 1/3-1EV step, Max. +/-1 EV, 3 frames
Light Metering Intelligent Multiple / Center Weighted / Spot
ISO Sensitivity Auto / i.ISO / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200/High Sensitivity Mode (ISO1600 - 6400)
Picture Quality Still Picture Recording [4:3] 4608x3456 (16M) / 3264x2448 (8M EZ) / 2048x1536 (3M EZ) / 640x480 (0.3M EZ)/[3:2] 4608x3072 (14M) / 3264x2176 (7M EZ) / 2048x1360 (2.5M EZ)/[16:9] 4608x2592 (12M) / 1920x1080 (2M EZ)/[1:1] 3456x3456 (12M) / 1536x1536 (2.5M EZ)
Image Quality Fine / Standard
White Balance Auto / Daylight / Cloudy / Shade / Incandescent / White Set/White Balance Adjustment (Except Auto)
Photo Style / Film Mode -
Color Mode / Color Effect / My color -
Picture Adjustment -
Aspect Bracketing -
Other Digital Red Eye Correction (Red-Eye Removal) Yes (On/Off)
GPS -
Wi-FI IEEE 802.11b/g/n/2412 MHz – 2462 MHz (1-11 ch)/WPA / WPA2/Infrastracture Mode / WPS/Wi-Fi Button
NFC -
Zoom in Motion Picture Yes
Self Timer 2 sec / 10 sec
Self Shot Mode Yes
Display Playback Mode All, Slideshow, Filtering Play (Picture Only, Video Only, Category Selection, Select Date), Calendar
Thumbnails / Zoomed Playback 12,30-thumbnails / Yes
Calendar Display / Dual- Image Playback Yes (Menu / Zoom Lever) / No
Set Favorites / Rotate Image No / No
Show Histogram Yes
Show Highlights -
DPOF Print Setting / Set Protection Yes / Yes
Edit Retouch Creative Retouch
Resize / Cropping / Aspect Conv. / Leveling Yes / Yes / No / No
Copy / Title Edit / Text Stamp Yes / Yes / Yes
Cut Animation Yes
Video Divide Yes
PictBridge Support Single / Multi / All / DPOF
Setup OSD language Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
Monitor LCD Monitor 7.7cm (3.0") TFT Screen LCD Display (1,040K dots), Tiltable monitor/Field of View: Approx. 100%/Power Monitor mode, AUTO Power Monitor mode
Flash Built- in- Flash Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off/0.6 - 6.0m (Wide / ISO Auto), 1.0 - 3.1m (Tele / ISO Auto)
Media Recording Media Built-in Memory, SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card
Built- in- Memory Approx. 78MB
Audio Microphone / Speaker Mono / Mono
Interface Interface microHDMI, AV Output (PAL/NTSC), USB (AV/USB Multi)
Power Power Li-ion Battery Pack (3.6V, 1250mAh, 4.5 Wh) (Included)/AC Adaptor (Input: 110 - 240V AC) (Included, connect with USB cable)
Battery life (approx.) 350 pictures (CIPA Standard)*1
Standard Package Included Software * The DMC-TZ57 Operating Instructions for advanced features is available for downloaded at Panasonic LUMIX Customer Support Site using PC, smartphone or tablet connected to the Internet./* The software for PC is not bundled with DMC-TZ57. Please use the software pre-installed to the PC or other general image viewing software to browse pictures.
Standard Accessories Battery Pack, AC Adaptor, USB Cable, Hand Strap
NOTE *1
NOTE Recording conditions by CIPA standard
NOTE - Temperature: 23 oC (73.4 oF) / Humidity: 50%RH when LCD monitor is on.
NOTE - Using a Panasonic SDHC Memory Card
NOTE - Using the supplied battery.
NOTE - Starting recording 30 seconds after the camera is turned on. (When the optical image stabilizer function is set to [ON].)
NOTE - Recording once every 30 seconds with full flash every second recording.
NOTE - Rotating the zoom lever from Tele to Wide or vice versa in every recording.
NOTE - The number of recordable pictures varies depending on the recording interval time.
NOTE - If the recording interval time becomes longer, the number of recordable pictures decreases.
NOTE - CIPA is an abbreviation of [Camera & Imaging Products Association].
NOTE *2
NOTE - These are standard times taken at a temperature of 23 oC (73.4 oF) and a humidity of 50%RH.
NOTE - The time available for recording varies depending on the environment, the interval between recordings, and the manner of use.
NOTE - Actual recordable time is the time available for recording when repeating actions such as switching the power supply [ON] / [OFF], starting/stopping recording, zoom operation etc.
NOTE - Use a card with SD Speed Class with "Class 4" or higher when recording motion pictures.
NOTE SD speed class is the speed standard regarding continuous writing.
NOTE - Maximum time to record motion pictures continuously with [MP4] is 29 minutes 59 seconds or up to 4 GB.

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