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against any causes of blurred images with MEGA O.I.S. compensating for hand-
shake and the I.I.C. compensating for movement of the subject. Thus Image
stabilizing systems are further evolving with LUMIX.
*For a digital still camera, as of July 19, 2006.
3. High Picture Quality, Quick Response Image Processing LSI: The Venus
Engine III
The DMC-FX50/FX07 cameras both adopt the Venus Engine III to realize high
sensitivity recording at max. ISO 1250 at full resolution. The noise reduction system
is greatly improved by removing noise at the processing stages in series. First,
critical noise is roughly undraped and the chromatic noise and the luminance noise
are separated to respectively go through the supplemental noise reduction process
so that the remaining noise is appropriately minimised.
With its multi-task image processing capability, the Venus Engine III also boasts
outstanding response time with a shutter release time lag of as short as 0.005 sec.
minimum and the shutter interval of 0.5 sec. Together with the fast startup time of
approx. 1.3 sec., the quick response of DMC-FX50/FX07 enable easy capture of
those spur-of-the-moment shots. In the burst shooting mode, it is possible to shoot at
three frames per second in full resolution**. The DMC-FX50/FX07 cameras also
allow unlimited consecutive shooting up to the capacity of the SD/SDHC memory
card***.
Despite the large, bright LCD, the DMC-FX50/FX07 cameras achieve long
battery life to shoot approx. 300(FX50) / 320(FX07) pictures (CIPA) on a single
charge thanks to the energy-efficient Venus Engine III.
* Not including the time for AF.
**Max. eight images in standard mode/ six images in fine mode.
*** The speed of the consecutive shooting varies depending on the memory card.
The number of recordable pictures depends on the memory card size, battery life, picture
size and image compression.
4. Advanced
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3-inch (FX50) / 2.5-inch (FX07) Large LCD for Easy Shooting and
Playback
The FX50 newly incorporates an easy-to-see 3-inch large 230 k high resolution
LCD (2.5-inch 207k pixels high resolution LCD for FX07). Taking advantage of this
large, high resolution LCD, the FX50 enables dual image playback to display any 2
images vertically in the LCD and compare them as well as the 9-frame cutouts from a
motion image. Furthermore, it becomes possible. Also, the pixel-mixed readout
method performed by the CCD automatically increases the brightness level of the live
image on the LCD, which greatly facilitates shooting in low light situations.
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With the
help of the Power LCD function, which boosts the backlighting of the LCD by 40%,
even shooting in bright outdoors situations is no longer a problem.
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The High Angle
mode makes the display extremely easy to view from low angles, for example, when
holding the camera up high to take pictures over a crowd and can be accessed easily
and quickly by using the dedicated button.