The FT4 isn’t the cheapest rugged compact you’ll find, but it does boast the best stills quality of its contemporaries. Metering is excellent, colours are vibrant yet accurate, noise is low and sharpness is very good for a compact. Sadly, the video...
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT4 (also known as the DMC-TS4) is a waterproof, shockproof and dustproof digital camera. The FT4 can be used underwater to a depth of up to 12 meters and is drop proof from a height up to 2m, freezeproof to -10 degrees C and...
The FT4 is a great option for the adventurous, with a great design and plenty of rugged protection. It’s not the best camera for underwater shooting thanks to its small buttons, but for other rugged uses, it’s a solid performer.Related Tags:...
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT4 is an amazingly rugged camera that can take pictures and video under conditions that would destroy any normal compact. It can dive deeper and fall higher than almost all of its competition, and still manages to retain most of...
Panasonic's Lumix DMC-FT4 is a tough camera that's designed for the great outdoors. It supplies decent enough image quality for a camera of its type and it even packs in features such as GPS tagging and a panorama scene mode. It's easy to...
The Panasonic Lumix FT4 is a straight copy of the FT3. Its only new feature is a boosted GPS which is a minor, if pleasant, addition. This year's FT camera is still likely to retain its position as top dog in the waterproof compact market in 2012,...
Matching rugged credentials with a level of usability you'd expect from a normal compact camera is a difficult trick to pull off. Quite often manufacturers will achieve the former at the expense of the latter, or even at the sacrifice of image...
With a price premium paid for its rugged qualities, you won’t want to go too crazy with this pocket compact, though the built in GPS, 3D mode and miniature effects are...
I'm a sucker for brightly coloured gadgetry, but the Lumix DMC-FT4 isn't just a pretty, hard-to-lose little box of joy. It's virtually armoured, with a metal flight-case style body that will laugh at being dropped on to concrete from 2m, and...
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