Recent content by Justin Smith

You're absolutely right there ! TBH I would far rather have been able to buy a TZ70 (or even a TZ60) for half the price of my TZ99. In fact I am even starting to think I'd rather have a TZ60/70 than my TZ99 at the same price ! !

True enough (apart from the cost of the development / programming), but I still think it's exceptionally tight on a camera which cost nearly £500. Particularly when its predecessor, the TZ70 did have it and was only £214 (in Dec 21) ! As a side issue your point about software being free (or at...

I have had Panasonics for the last 20 years odd (TZ5, TZ18, TZ60 and TZ70), all of them had a small amount of internal memory and I have had to use it more than once. The odd time the SD card has failed but more frequently (far more frequently ! ) when I have forgotten to put the SD card back in...

I was out on Saturday for a walk and wanted to take a pic of something interesting so whipped out my camera (a Panasonic TZ99) but the SD card had developed a fault on it. What surprised me is that the camera would not let me take a pic, and when I got home Google confirmed that the TZ99 really...

Thank you for your suggestion, but the "fault" sometimes occurs even if it's the first pic after having turned on the camera. I don't know if it's the same "fault" (since I have had the issue even when there is light) but whilst in the WWII shelters in Rabat (Malta) I tried to use the camera to...

Bought a Panasonic TZ99 back in June and am in two minds about it, the thing is just so complicated, it is significantly more so than my prev TZ70..... I sometimes have issues with it and cannot fathom if it's a fault or it is set in some obscure setting ! The most annoying "fault" is that...

In the end I bought the TZ-99 from John Lewis, and paid the extra £30 for the extended warranty so at least I have peace of mind for two years ! The TZ-99 slightly bigger (thicker) than the TZ-70 and heavier, mainly due to the fold up screen which I am in two minds about because I am concerned...

That's naughty selling it as an 8X zoom, when it's just digital cropping.

I readily accept that mobile phones have decimated the sales of digital cameras, but not so much that of super zoom compacts. I would have thought so anyway.

Does anyone have any sales figures for this ? Why would sales of superzoom compacts have fallen off so much, bearing in mind Mobile phones have not got much zoom capability ? I would have thought the sales of low zoom cameras would have fallen off more, yet Argos are selling an Agfa 8X zoom for...

So how do you account for the fact the TZ-18 was so much worse (for dust in the sensor etc) that all the other TZs I have had ?

Did a bit of research on this. My TZ-60 cost me £250 in 2015 (plus Jessops extra cover warranty at £55 for three years). The present equivalent the TZ-99 cost £470. Using the Bank Of England inflation calculator £250 in 2015 is now worth £344 (i.e. the TX-99 is still 26% more expensive, allowing...

I answered that at the top of my post : The extended warranties I used to take out from Jessops did, though I think they were like the John Lewis one : a breakdown in the first year was covered by the manufacturers one year warranty but in the second two years it was covered by the extended...

Ohhh, you're such a cynic !

Neither could I, and I spent sometime researching it !