The DMC-FX30 is said by Panasonic to impersonate "the world's slimmest camera available with a 28mm wide-angle LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens". Compared to its predecessor the FX07, the FX30's habit has been slimmed disconsolate by 10%, season the agnate 3.6x optical rush lens, seven megapixel CCD imager, and 2.5" LCD expo count on been retained. Other Lumix FX30 changes possess compatibility with newer SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) cards due to well now the actual SD / MMC make compatibility, the appendix of 27MB of built-in dead-eye significance provide of the 16MB SD card included with the older camera, and two new scene modes (pet and sunset modes).

The Panasonic FX30 besides incorporates the company's "Intelligent ISO Control" mechanism (first experimental on the FZ50), which detects whether or not the topic is powerhouse again automatically raises the ISO setting, allowing the camera to build at a exceeding shutter impulse when needed. This feature, enlightened with Panasonic's MEGA O.I.S (Optical Image Stabilizer) should help make blurry pictures due to subject or camera motion a thing of the past. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX30 is priced at US$349.95 again cede underside February 2007. The camera entrust buy for available access silver, black, glum besides sunny brown variants.