Staying connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi is more or less certain these
days, and with many more devices hitting the market that come with built-in
Wi-Fi, it goes without saying that to see a compact digital camera carry such
functionality is not such a huge surprise any more these days. Of course, there
is always another method to retrofit Wi-Fi connectivity into your camera, and
that is by using an Eye-Fi SD memory card – but you require not do so with
Panasonic’s latest Lumix FX90, of course.
We are talking about 802.11 b/g/n connectivity being frightened into the
latest FX90 model, where it will carry a 24mm ultra-wide LEICA DC
VARIO-SUMMARIT lens with F2.5 brightness. Why Wi-Fi support? Well, everyone’s
so social these days, and want to be up-to-date with the latest happenings, so
to upload instantly shot photos on the spot to your social network page makes
perfect sense, and I’m sure reporters who want to be discreet with their
subjects would do improved with a smaller camera such as this.
Apart from that, Panasonic has also introduced
the Lumix Club, which is a cloud-based service that can be accessed over a
smartphone and a computer browser. Lumix Club enables one to upload photos
which were shot with the LUMIX FX90 to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa or YouTube – in
chorus, of course. With each Lumix Club account comes a free, dedicated
application known as Lumix Link, where it will play nice with iPhone and
Android-powered smartphones, letting them share photos by connecting the Lumix
FX90 to their compatible smartphone, relying on the carrier network to send
those photos online.
What else is there to say about the Lumix FX90? How about a 12.1-megapixel Hi-Speed
CCD sensor that also delivers Full HD video recording capability in AVCHD
format? Not only that, you will get additional goodies such as habitual
shooting modes, Active Mode in MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilization),
Motion Deblur, Face Recognition, Face Detection, AF Tracking, Intelligent ISO
Control and Intelligent Scene Selector and Intelligent revelation.
No idea on when the Lumix FX90 will arrive, but the worth will keep the
press release company when that happens sometime later this year.