Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Saturday 6 July 2013

The Lumix TZ40

With a trip abroad sometime this year 'she wot must be obeyed' felt we might need to avail ourselves of a new lightweight camera. A technically advanced one with a big zoom to pick out humming birds in the rainforest canopy. So we surfed the net and read all the reviews of all the current crop of compact digital cameras.





And the Lumix TZ40 came out on top. Most reviews rated it very highly. X20 zoom; wifi transfer of photos to talents or PCs; near field communication allowing an iPad or mobile phone to wirelessly control the camera from near or a little further away.  A review can be read at the website at the end of the post. A few people criticised the picture quality but we can't say we noticed. It's lightweight, sturdy with wifi, GPS, NFC and several other nice features. Anyway we will let you know how we get on with it.

Steve

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/panasonic_lumix_dmc_tz40_review

4 comments:

Paul Mullings said...

Don't forget to get a tripod, especially when using high zoom levels - http://smatechnology.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/34/

steve said...

Already sorted Paul......have a small gorilla pod and another small tripod as well but thanks for the tip Paul. Appreciated

Steve

Bursledon Blogger said...

we bought a Lumex a couple of years ago, 16x optical zoom with 23x using electronics - been great, easy to use, compact - guess the tz40 is the latest version, -good choice and have fun in costa rica - we thought Iceland would make a good summer holiday - pictures soon.

steve said...

Saving Iceland for retirement trip.........so we can really enjoy it without worrying about what children may like to do. Forthcoming holiday still someway off so plenty of time to practice with new camera

We've had a few lumix before and they have all been excellent.
Enjoy Iceland Fantastically exciting place to visit.

Steve