Panasonic Lumix DMC-S3

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Short extract: Despite its budget price-tag, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-S3 is a good-looking camera, with a distinctive pebble shape, rounded corners and an attractively glossy finish to the all-plastic body.

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  8.5 out of 10

Conclusion: The Panasonic Lumix DMC S3 is an excellent value for money pocket camera. It is very hard to beat when compared alongside its direct rivals. Picture quality and features have an edge over many of its competitors while the rapid response times are also a big plus point.

• Picture quality, value for money, response times, ease of use
• Noise of zoom picked up in movie mode

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  6 out of 10

Short extract: The Panasonic DMC-S3 is just one of the many budget compact cameras on the market today. Supporting an impressive 14-megapixel sensor, HD movie mode and a 4x optical zoom, at first glance this compact certainly looks like excellent value for money at £130.

Conclusion: The budget price of the Panasonic DMC-S3 is easily its best feature; however, image quality has been compromised and in low light the noise is a big problem

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  7 out of 10

Short extract: Panasonic announced the release of the DMC-S3 in January 2011 and it is aimed at those who are buying their first digital camera or have limited photography knowledge. As well as being stylish the camera is designed to be simple to use, with easy to use features while performing to a high standard.

• Easy to use, Excellent colour reproduction, Great macro pictures, Excellent auto white-balance
• Limited number of features, Other cameras with more features at this price

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  8 out of 10

Summary: The Panasonic Lumix DMC-S3 is by no means perfect, but it's still head and shoulders above most other budget compact cameras. It's also very light, and refreshingly easy to operate.

Short extract: The Panasonic Lumix DMC-S3 is by no means perfect, but it's still head and shoulders above most other budget compact cameras. It's also very light, and refreshingly easy to operate.

Conclusion: The Panasonic Lumix DMC-S3 is a great little device. It's cheap, light, easy to use, and takes a pretty good picture given the right conditions. Its low-light performance is something of a disappointment, but, if you can live with using the flash when shooting indoors, the S3 provides very...

• Small and light, Good value, Easy to use, 14.1-megapixel resolution
• Average low-light performance, Slightly cheap build quality, Video quality could be better