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# 10 fps Continuous Shooting Speed 14.1MP High Sensitivity MOS Sensor 20x Leica DC Optical Zoom Lens Panasonic Lumix ZS20 14.1 High Sensitivity MOS Digtial Camera with 20x Optical Zoom (Black) DMC-ZS20K

**Brand:** panasonic
**Price:** ¥596
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 📷 Zoom into brilliance, shoot with speed, and own every moment!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Panasonic Lumix ZS20 14.1 High Sensitivity MOS Digtial Camera with 20x Optical Zoom (Black) DMC-ZS20K by panasonic
- **How much does it cost?** ¥596 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/1142896-panasonic-lumix-zs20-14-1-high-sensitivity-mos-digtial-camera)

## Best For

- panasonic enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted panasonic brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Zoom Like a Pro:** 20x Leica DC lens brings distant subjects up close with stunning clarity.
- • **Never Miss the Moment:** 10 frames per second burst shooting for fast action and spontaneous shots.
- • **Seamless Touchscreen Control:** 3.0-inch 460,000-dot touchscreen LCD for intuitive framing and settings.
- • **Travel-Ready with GPS & HD Video:** Built-in GPS tags your adventures and shoots Full HD 1080p videos with stereo sound.
- • **Capture Every Detail with Precision:** 14.1MP MOS sensor delivers crisp, vibrant images even in low light.

## Overview

The Panasonic Lumix ZS20 is a compact powerhouse featuring a 14.1MP high sensitivity MOS sensor paired with a versatile 20x Leica DC optical zoom lens (24-480mm). It supports fast 10 fps continuous shooting, a bright 3-inch touchscreen LCD, Full HD 1080p video recording with stereo microphone, and built-in GPS for geotagging. Designed for professionals and enthusiasts on the go, it balances portability with advanced features, making it perfect for capturing everything from wildlife to urban landscapes with precision and style.

## Description

The LUMIX DMC-ZS20 digital camera with an impressive 20x optical zoom, a 24mm ultra wide-angle LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens and the ability to shoot full-High Definition (HD). The newly-redesigned lens system, the LUMIX ZS20 features a new mechanical structure and optical system to further improve image quality and with Nano Surface Coating technology, the LUMIX ZS20 offers stunning image clarity with minimized ghosting and flare. Beyond the quality of its lens, the LUMIX ZS20 integrates an enhanced built-in GPS*2 functionality, making it easy for users to pinpoint locations where photos were taken and share with family and friends on internet maps.

Review: Best of the Zs series . - Okay, I like the Panasonic's Zs cameras. They're easy to get the hang of and I've had no reliability issues. I started with a Panasonic Zs3. Later on I upgraded to a Zs7, then when I saw desertcart was selling a Zs9 which was the same as the Zs8 but with a stereo microphone and the price wasn't much over $100 (from desertcart Warehouse), I couldn't resist buying it for its 16x zoom. It's been a great camera. I love my Zs9 with it's long zoom despite it not having GPS (which I didn't care about) or HDMI out, and with a lower LCD screen resolution than the Zs7. I thought the screen clarity was fine and didn't miss the 460,000 dots on the Zs7. Well, I couldn't resist this newer upgraded Zs. The Zs20 is my 4th Panasonic Lumix Zs camera (all of them purchased from desertcart), and I can say without reservation that this is the best of them all. I love the fast burst shooting made possible by the CMOS sensor. The 16x zoom on the Zs8/9 is really great. I've taken some fantastic close-up shots with it. Now I have a 20x zoom. Amazing. It's operates when shooting video too. Canon's G series, by comparison, has a larger 1:1.7 sensor compared to the Zs20 1:2.33. But, the zoom is very limited on the Canon and the camera is too big to carry around in your pocket - and it cost twice as much (and the older unavailable G9 model is better than the later ones I hear.) Their competitor for this Panasonic is their 20x zoom model SX260SH with a similar 1:2.33 CMOS sensor. Professional reviewers are rating the Zs20 higher than the comparable Canon, which is slightly larger, heavier, and costs more. Everyone raves about Panasonic's Leica lenses, with good reason. The Zs20 is just an amazing camera for the price. It's even slightly smaller than the Zs 7,8/9/10 and easy to carry in your pocket in a thin stretch case. Like the Zs7 (which never cost less than about $250.00) it has the 460,000 dot bright LCD screen, HDMI out, and GPS. It also has more features than the Zs7 or 8/9/10. Don't expect the price to get much lower. As I recall, the Zs10 (the real predecessor of the Zs20) price came down to about the Zs20 price today, or maybe at the very end, a few dollars less, but I wouldn't wait. Panasonic may refuse to lower the price any further. It's already so heavily discounted, and there is a limit to how low they'll go. If you want the absolute best deal, get a "used" one from desertcart Warehouse. It's hardly, if at all "used," and most likely brand new but returned for some reason and re-packaged. You have 30 days to send it back if there is anything wrong with it. You don't get the one year warranty however, so if that's important to you, but a new one. It's definitely worth the price. I already had an extra battery but you can buy a non-proprietary battery very inexpensively that lasts even longer than the battery that comes with the camera. I also had a wall charger (two - from my Zs7 and Zs9)), so I didn't have to buy that. I'd say that's the only thing Panasonic let down on. It's worth getting a wall charger, but it should come with the camera. This is the first time it doesn't. Don't let it deter you.
Review: Good things come in small packages - Friends who lug around heavy DSLR kits (like I used to do) turn green with envy at what this little shirtpocket wonder can accomplish. The ZS20's zoom range from 24mm wide open to 480mm fully optical at 14 mpx has to be seen to be believed. You can start with a broad view of a landscape and then zoom in to capture a single bird on a tree so far away that you don't even see the bird in the landscape view. The images are sharp, well saturated, with none of the blurriness and occasional purple fringing that troubled the ZS10. The updated lenses also seem have shortened the depth of field so that I can now get the bird in sharp focus but the background some distance away is soft and blurry. They've also vastly improved the digital zoom so that you can now take useful pictures at the equivalent of a 1013mm zoom range, and even longer at reduced MPx. Those digitally assisted pix may not win photo contests but they'll tell you whether that distant shorebird was an avocet or a killdeer. Carrying this camera is like having a telescope in your pocket. But the amazing zoom is only the beginning. Equally useful are the burst modes. Lots of subjects -- from talking heads to grandkids to puppies to birds to flowers in the wind -- are in constant motion, and if you take just one shot, you're playing roulette. The grandkid jumping over a log -- you really wanted him in midair, not on the landing. In burst mode, you'll get two, or five, or 10 or even more shots during the leap, and back home on your computer you can pick the one you like best and discard the rest. I now routinely take dozens or even hundreds of images of moving objects, and back at home at the computer I pick out the one or two keepers, and discard the rest. The camera also has an intelligent burst mode that takes just one shot of a static object but automatically takes a burst if the object is moving. This camera is smart! Although it has manual adjustments for aperture and shutter speed, I hardly ever need them. The IA (Intelligent Auto) setting handles ISO, white balance, aperture, shutter speed, and everything else instantly and with reliably excellent results in a wide range of conditions. The ZS20 also automatically performs some operations that previously took a fair amount of effort in Photoshop, with plugins. I was very skeptical of the hand-held night shot scene mode until I happened to be out in the evening of "supermoon" without a tripod. The orange moon had partly cleared the hills when I clicked the shutter. The camera took a burst of exposures and then internally sifted and merged them, and in a second or two gave me as clear and sharp an image as if I had used a tripod. It made a believer of me. Equally good is the HDR setting for high-contrast and backlit subjects. The camera takes a burst of exposures, bracketing the aperture, and then automatically combines them to produce a single image with a well-lit foreground. It used to take a lot of work and luck in Photoshop to achieve this. Totally amazing is the in-camera panorama scene mode. Without a tripod, you stand in a spot, hold down the shutter and make a complete circle in about 8 seconds (the camera shows you a progress bar). A few seconds later you've got, in the camera ready for downloading, a perfectly merged super-wide panorama image with no, or only very faintly perceptible, visual seams. No further processing necessary. There are a number of other scene modes and creative preset modes, and you can save custom settings for quick access. The video on the ZS10 was already very good, and the 20 has only improved on it, performing in full 1080p HD, with better placement for the stereo microphones. I also like the fact that the same batteries used on the previous models work in this one. I prefer to remove the battery and charge it in a wall charger (supplied with the older models), and I can still do that, but the 20 comes with a cable that lets the battery be charged in the camera from a wall plug or a USB port. The one annoyance with this little gem is the touch-screen controls on the digital display. These controls let you set the focus and the zoom, and click the shutter, by touching the screen. I can't imagine any situation where this would be useful. I unwittingly activated these controls by touching the screen and as I handled the camera I unknowingly took dozens of shots of my hand, the inside of my pocket, the ground, the side of my pants, and like that. You can't turn this obnoxious "feature" off! I've learned not to touch the screen when handling the camera, so it isn't a problem any more, but it still diminishes my esteem for the otherwise admirable engineering job that Panasonic did on this camera. This camera -- actually, already its predecessor -- convinced me to dump the 50-lb DSLR outfit I had been lugging around for several years. I don't need it. For me, the ZS series has disrupted the DSLR market much in the same way that DSLRs disrupted the film SLR market. Who needs all that heavy clunky expensive gear? I can do 95% of what I did with the DSLR, and a great many things I couldn't, with this little gem that fits in my shirtpocket.

## Features

- High Sensitivity MOS Sensor
- GPS
- 3" LCD touchscreen

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00728ZBA2 |
| Age Range Description | Teen, Adult |
| Aperture modes | F3.3-F6.4 |
| Aspect Ratio | 16:9 |
| Auto Focus Technology | Center, Continuous, Contrast Detection, Live View, Multi-area, Touch, Tracking |
| Autofocus Points | 23 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #173,501 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #1,473 in Digital Point & Shoot Cameras |
| Brand | Panasonic |
| Built-In Media | SD Card |
| Camera Flash | Built-In |
| Camera Lens | 20x optical zoom lens with a focal length range of 24-480mm (35mm equivalent) |
| Color | Black |
| Compatible Devices | Micro Four Thirds |
| Compatible Flash Memory Type | SD, SDHC, SDXC |
| Compatible Mountings | Micro Four Thirds |
| Connectivity Technology | HDMI, USB |
| Continuous Shooting | 10 |
| Crop Mode | 16:9 |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,212 Reviews |
| Digital Scene Transition | zoom |
| Digital Zoom | 4 |
| Display Fixture Type | Fixed |
| Display Maximum Resolution | 640 x 480 |
| Display Resolution Maximum | 460,000 |
| Display Type | LCD |
| Dots Per Screen | 460,000 |
| Effective Still Resolution | 14.1 |
| Expanded ISO Minimum | 100 |
| Exposure Control | 3D, Aperture Priority, Custom, Manual, Program, Shutter Priority |
| File Format | JPEG (Exif v2.3), 3D: MPO |
| Flash Memory Bus Interface Type | SD |
| Flash Memory Installed Size | 12 |
| Flash Memory Speed Class | U3 or higher |
| Flash Memory Type | SD;SDHD;MicroSD |
| Flash Memory UHS Speed Class | U1 |
| Flash Memory Video Speed Class | 60 |
| Flash Modes | Automatic |
| Flash Sync Speed | 1/60 |
| Focal Length Description | 24.0-480.0 millimeters |
| Focus Features | Contrast Detection |
| Focus Mode | Automatic AF (AF-A) |
| Focus Type | Auto Focus |
| Form Factor | Compact |
| Generation | 20 |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00885170071094 |
| HDMI Type | Built-in |
| Hardware Interface | USB |
| Image Capture Type | Stills & Video |
| Image Stabilization | Optical |
| Image stabilization | Optical |
| Item Weight | 6.56 ounces |
| JPEG Quality Level | Fine |
| Lens Construction | Complex |
| Lens Correction Type | Peripheral Illumination |
| Lens Type | Zoom |
| Manufacturer | Panasonic |
| Manufacturer Part Number | DMC-ZS20K |
| Maximum Aperture | 6.4 f_stop |
| Maximum Focal Length | 384 |
| Maximum Shutter Speed | 1/2000 seconds |
| Memory Storage Capacity | 12 MB |
| Metering Methods | Multi, Center-weighted, Spot |
| Minimum Focal Length | 24 |
| Minimum Shutter Speed | 15 seconds |
| Model Name | Panasonic Lumix ZS20 |
| Model Number | DMC-ZS20K |
| Model Series | ZS |
| Number of Diaphragm Blades | 7 |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Optical Zoom | 20 x |
| Photo Sensor Resolution | 14.1 mp |
| Photo Sensor Size | 1/2.3-inch |
| Photo Sensor Technology | MOS |
| Real Angle Of View | 1.77 degrees |
| Recording Capacity | 74 minutes |
| Screen Size | 3 inches |
| Self Timer | 10 seconds |
| Sensor Type | MOS |
| Series Number | 20 |
| Shooting Modes | 3D, Aperture Priority, Automatic, Custom, Easy, Macro, Manual, Movie, Panorama, Portrait, Program, Shutter Priority, Underwater |
| Skill Level | Amateur |
| Special Feature | 20x Optical Zoom, 10 fps Continuous Shooting |
| Specific Uses For Product | Photography, Videography |
| Supported File Format | JPEG (Exif v2.3), 3D: MPO |
| Supported Image Format | JPEG, MPO |
| Total Still Resolution | 14.1 mp |
| Total USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
| Total USB Ports | 1 |
| Total Video Out Ports | 1 |
| Touch Screen Type | Yes |
| UPC | 885170071094 |
| Unit Count | 1 Count |
| Video Capture Format | MPEG-4, AVCHD |
| Video Output | HDMI |
| Video Resolution | FHD 1080p |
| Viewfinder | LCD screen |
| White Balance Settings | Custom |
| Wireless Technology | gps |
| Write Speed | 10 fps |
| Zoom | Optical Zoom |

## Product Details

- **Aspect Ratio:** 16:9
- **Compatible Mountings:** Micro Four Thirds
- **Expanded ISO Minimum:** 100
- **Image Stabilization:** Optical
- **Maximum Aperture:** 6.4 f
- **Maximum Focal Length:** 480 Millimeters
- **Metering Description:** Multi, Center-weighted, Spot
- **Optical Zoom:** 20
- **Photo Sensor Technology:** CMOS
- **Supported File Format:** JPEG (Exif v2.3), 3D: MPO

## Images

![Panasonic Lumix ZS20 14.1 High Sensitivity MOS Digtial Camera with 20x Optical Zoom (Black) DMC-ZS20K - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61iXO88KFQL.jpg)
![Panasonic Lumix ZS20 14.1 High Sensitivity MOS Digtial Camera with 20x Optical Zoom (Black) DMC-ZS20K - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514ruG1yV1L.jpg)
![Panasonic Lumix ZS20 14.1 High Sensitivity MOS Digtial Camera with 20x Optical Zoom (Black) DMC-ZS20K - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61W6LVjgb5L.jpg)
![Panasonic Lumix ZS20 14.1 High Sensitivity MOS Digtial Camera with 20x Optical Zoom (Black) DMC-ZS20K - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61XdEuRZ5+L.jpg)
![Panasonic Lumix ZS20 14.1 High Sensitivity MOS Digtial Camera with 20x Optical Zoom (Black) DMC-ZS20K - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Tz3YakWSL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: How is it for close up detailed picture?**
A: I took some pictures of snowflakes and have perfect detail. I was about 3-4 inches away and they were about 1/4 inch diameter. I was just using automatic setting. I haven't tried the advanced features b/c I have an SLR. I can't speak for artistic close ups where you'd want to vary your depth of field.

**Q: Can video recording mode be set to shutter priority?**
A: Video is accessed by pushing on a red button on the top of the camera.  You can have the mode dial set to any of the modes-- including shutter-priority-- but I'm not sure if it really makes a difference or if, once video is engaged, it has its own setting.  You might try going to a Panasonic website and posing that question there.

**Q: How do you recharge the battery?  Do I need to buy a battery charger extra?**
A: Hi Lynda,You re-charge it in camera using the power cable. You can, however, buy a cheap charger for this battery. I purchased this one http://www.amazon.com/Wasabi-Power-Panasonic-DMW-BCG10E-DMW-BCG10PP/dp/B0049V0ZX8/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1385106277&sr=1-4&keywords=Panasonic+Lumix+ZS20+charger   with extra batteries

**Q: Does anyone have trouble with the clam shell lens not closing properly?  I have an older DMC-Zs7 and his is the only problem I've ever had.**
A: I've had this camera for over a year and have had no problems with the clam shell lens or any other part of the camera.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best of the Zs series .
*by R***L on September 23, 2012*

Okay, I like the Panasonic's Zs cameras. They're easy to get the hang of and I've had no reliability issues. I started with a Panasonic Zs3. Later on I upgraded to a Zs7, then when I saw Amazon was selling a Zs9 which was the same as the Zs8 but with a stereo microphone and the price wasn't much over $100 (from Amazon Warehouse), I couldn't resist buying it for its 16x zoom. It's been a great camera. I love my Zs9 with it's long zoom despite it not having GPS (which I didn't care about) or HDMI out, and with a lower LCD screen resolution than the Zs7. I thought the screen clarity was fine and didn't miss the 460,000 dots on the Zs7. Well, I couldn't resist this newer upgraded Zs. The Zs20 is my 4th Panasonic Lumix Zs camera (all of them purchased from Amazon), and I can say without reservation that this is the best of them all. I love the fast burst shooting made possible by the CMOS sensor. The 16x zoom on the Zs8/9 is really great. I've taken some fantastic close-up shots with it. Now I have a 20x zoom. Amazing. It's operates when shooting video too. Canon's G series, by comparison, has a larger 1:1.7 sensor compared to the Zs20 1:2.33. But, the zoom is very limited on the Canon and the camera is too big to carry around in your pocket - and it cost twice as much (and the older unavailable G9 model is better than the later ones I hear.) Their competitor for this Panasonic is their 20x zoom model SX260SH with a similar 1:2.33 CMOS sensor. Professional reviewers are rating the Zs20 higher than the comparable Canon, which is slightly larger, heavier, and costs more. Everyone raves about Panasonic's Leica lenses, with good reason. The Zs20 is just an amazing camera for the price. It's even slightly smaller than the Zs 7,8/9/10 and easy to carry in your pocket in a thin stretch case. Like the Zs7 (which never cost less than about $250.00) it has the 460,000 dot bright LCD screen, HDMI out, and GPS. It also has more features than the Zs7 or 8/9/10. Don't expect the price to get much lower. As I recall, the Zs10 (the real predecessor of the Zs20) price came down to about the Zs20 price today, or maybe at the very end, a few dollars less, but I wouldn't wait. Panasonic may refuse to lower the price any further. It's already so heavily discounted, and there is a limit to how low they'll go. If you want the absolute best deal, get a "used" one from Amazon Warehouse. It's hardly, if at all "used," and most likely brand new but returned for some reason and re-packaged. You have 30 days to send it back if there is anything wrong with it. You don't get the one year warranty however, so if that's important to you, but a new one. It's definitely worth the price. I already had an extra battery but you can buy a non-proprietary battery very inexpensively that lasts even longer than the battery that comes with the camera. I also had a wall charger (two - from my Zs7 and Zs9)), so I didn't have to buy that. I'd say that's the only thing Panasonic let down on. It's worth getting a wall charger, but it should come with the camera. This is the first time it doesn't. Don't let it deter you.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good things come in small packages
*by M***N on May 14, 2012*

Friends who lug around heavy DSLR kits (like I used to do) turn green with envy at what this little shirtpocket wonder can accomplish. The ZS20's zoom range from 24mm wide open to 480mm fully optical at 14 mpx has to be seen to be believed. You can start with a broad view of a landscape and then zoom in to capture a single bird on a tree so far away that you don't even see the bird in the landscape view. The images are sharp, well saturated, with none of the blurriness and occasional purple fringing that troubled the ZS10. The updated lenses also seem have shortened the depth of field so that I can now get the bird in sharp focus but the background some distance away is soft and blurry. They've also vastly improved the digital zoom so that you can now take useful pictures at the equivalent of a 1013mm zoom range, and even longer at reduced MPx. Those digitally assisted pix may not win photo contests but they'll tell you whether that distant shorebird was an avocet or a killdeer. Carrying this camera is like having a telescope in your pocket. But the amazing zoom is only the beginning. Equally useful are the burst modes. Lots of subjects -- from talking heads to grandkids to puppies to birds to flowers in the wind -- are in constant motion, and if you take just one shot, you're playing roulette. The grandkid jumping over a log -- you really wanted him in midair, not on the landing. In burst mode, you'll get two, or five, or 10 or even more shots during the leap, and back home on your computer you can pick the one you like best and discard the rest. I now routinely take dozens or even hundreds of images of moving objects, and back at home at the computer I pick out the one or two keepers, and discard the rest. The camera also has an intelligent burst mode that takes just one shot of a static object but automatically takes a burst if the object is moving. This camera is smart! Although it has manual adjustments for aperture and shutter speed, I hardly ever need them. The IA (Intelligent Auto) setting handles ISO, white balance, aperture, shutter speed, and everything else instantly and with reliably excellent results in a wide range of conditions. The ZS20 also automatically performs some operations that previously took a fair amount of effort in Photoshop, with plugins. I was very skeptical of the hand-held night shot scene mode until I happened to be out in the evening of "supermoon" without a tripod. The orange moon had partly cleared the hills when I clicked the shutter. The camera took a burst of exposures and then internally sifted and merged them, and in a second or two gave me as clear and sharp an image as if I had used a tripod. It made a believer of me. Equally good is the HDR setting for high-contrast and backlit subjects. The camera takes a burst of exposures, bracketing the aperture, and then automatically combines them to produce a single image with a well-lit foreground. It used to take a lot of work and luck in Photoshop to achieve this. Totally amazing is the in-camera panorama scene mode. Without a tripod, you stand in a spot, hold down the shutter and make a complete circle in about 8 seconds (the camera shows you a progress bar). A few seconds later you've got, in the camera ready for downloading, a perfectly merged super-wide panorama image with no, or only very faintly perceptible, visual seams. No further processing necessary. There are a number of other scene modes and creative preset modes, and you can save custom settings for quick access. The video on the ZS10 was already very good, and the 20 has only improved on it, performing in full 1080p HD, with better placement for the stereo microphones. I also like the fact that the same batteries used on the previous models work in this one. I prefer to remove the battery and charge it in a wall charger (supplied with the older models), and I can still do that, but the 20 comes with a cable that lets the battery be charged in the camera from a wall plug or a USB port. The one annoyance with this little gem is the touch-screen controls on the digital display. These controls let you set the focus and the zoom, and click the shutter, by touching the screen. I can't imagine any situation where this would be useful. I unwittingly activated these controls by touching the screen and as I handled the camera I unknowingly took dozens of shots of my hand, the inside of my pocket, the ground, the side of my pants, and like that. You can't turn this obnoxious "feature" off! I've learned not to touch the screen when handling the camera, so it isn't a problem any more, but it still diminishes my esteem for the otherwise admirable engineering job that Panasonic did on this camera. This camera -- actually, already its predecessor -- convinced me to dump the 50-lb DSLR outfit I had been lugging around for several years. I don't need it. For me, the ZS series has disrupted the DSLR market much in the same way that DSLRs disrupted the film SLR market. Who needs all that heavy clunky expensive gear? I can do 95% of what I did with the DSLR, and a great many things I couldn't, with this little gem that fits in my shirtpocket.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ OVERALL, A GREAT CAMERA...
*by A***R on June 7, 2013*

I never take the time to write reviews on any items,but i thought this might help someone with their decision making. First let me start by saying that I'm one of the pickiest person when it comes to buying a camera. Over the years I had few favorites and when they broke down I dreaded the process of looking for another great camera. I hate reading GREAT REVIEWS, buying the product, taking it for a ride in different environment only to discover that the camera works great in some instances but not in others (i.e. sometimes a camera it's great in day light but lacks during night scenes, or it's great when you use the zoom a little bit but not so great when you zoom all the way out, or it's fast in day light and slower at night, etc., etc.). I bought and returned so many cameras I lost count. After my everyday point-and-shoot camera broke down few months ago I thought I'll never find a great camera, but I did, actually I found 3 and one is a WINNER! I bought many cameras, my recent purchases were: this camera ( Panasonic dmc-zs20),PANASONIC DMX-ZS25, and PANASONIC DMC-ZS19. I have to say that all 3 cameras are outstanding,and I had a hard time deciding which one to keep. I was so set to keep ZS25 for many reasons: although it's similar to zs19 the thing I love about ZS25 were the on/off button (it's push and not slide)& the review button (it's push and not slide, which is annoying on zs19/zs20). If you don't care for those two items than all 3 cameras seem to be the same. The major difference between the them is: 1. zs20 has a GPS while the zs19 doesn't (which I don't care for anyway, since it just kills the battery) 2. zs19 has a semi-touch screen and zs20 doesn't ( this is a pretty handy addition when reviewing pictures in a hurry, unfortunately you can't delete pictures with a touch which would've been great). The touch screen can be used when you want to take pictures by just touching the screen and focusing on certain things. 3. during recording with zs19 you can take 12 pictures, while with zs20 you can take only 1! AND THIS WAS THE DEAL BREAKER FOR ME WHEN IT CAME TO THE ZS20 AND THE MAIN REASON WHY I HAD TO PICK THE ZS19 AS A WINNER. EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN STOP AND SAVE A STILL PICTURE FROM A VIDEO, IT'S STILL NICE TO HAVE THE OPTION TO CHOSE EXACTLY WHEN YOU WANT TO TAKE A PICTURE DURING RECORDING! I love everything about both cameras, the quality it's the same, the LCD it's a bit more colorful on the zs20 (only when viewing, the pictures LOOK nicer on the zs20 but the quality it's exactly the same when viewed on a computer), the pictures are great in any situation even at night and in low light ( which it's the problem with most cameras). WHAT IMPRESSED ME THE MOST ON BOTH OF THESE CAMERAS IS HOW FAST THEY ARE (IN LOW LIGHT TOO) AND A HUGE PLUS FOR BOTH IS THE BUST MODE WITH FLASH (ON ALL SETTINGS EXCEPT FOR iAUTO) WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO TAKE A SERIES OF RAPID FIRE PICTURES WITH FLASH FULLY WORKING! Like I said I tried many cameras ( different models, brands, prices, etc.) and all the cameras that I tried that have a BURST mode option don't have BURST WITH FLASH (which in good light is not a problem but when you do need a flash...and most of the times indoors you need a flash...the pictures taken with BURST MODE WITHOUT A FLASH WILL LOOK LIKE CRAP). I was really impressed with both cameras so far but few days ago I went on a field trip with my son and the zs19 won me over (I'm sure zs20 would've been the same). The pictures I took with the zoom fully extended were UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN EVERYDAY :) SO FAR I TOOK PICTURES INSIDE, OUTSIDE, RAIN, SNOW, COLD, SUNNY, BIRTHDAYS WHERE KIDS MOVE CONSTANTLY, SOCCER GAME WHERE THERE IS A LOT OF ACTION, ETC. AND I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. ONE THING I NOTICED THAT THIS CAMERA DOESN'T HAVE AND I WISH IT DID IS A SNOW/BEACH SETTING WHICH I FOUND VERY HANDY ON MY OTHER CAMERAS. ONE MORE THING IT'S GREAT ON THOSE TWO CAMERAS IT'S THE PANORAMA SETTING,ON SOME CAMERAS YOU HAVE TO TAKE ONE PICTURE AND FOR THE NEXT ONE YOU'LL HAVE TO ALIGN THE PREVIOUS PICTURE ON THE SCREEN IN ORDER TO MATCH THE NEXT ONE, ON THE PANASONIC ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS KEEP THE SHUTTER PRESS AND MOVE YOUR BODY 360 degrees,it's super cool even my kids were very impressed :) So, overall both cameras are outstanding but for me the fact that I have the choice to take more than one picture while recording made me decide to keep the zs19. If the zs20 would've had this option I would've loved to keep it because I liked the two buttons better (on/off and review) and the LCD was a bit more vivid. One more plus with the zs19 was the touch screen. I think it all depends on what you're top requirements are. I hope I helped someone by writeing this review. Good luck.

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