Digital Cameras

28mm Wide Angle lens

Most conventional Digital Cameras produce images that are equivalent to 35mm film cameras. They are fine for taking the normal snap shots of family and friends, but if you want to take really good landscapes, interiors or group shots, you may want to consider using a camera with a 28mm wide angle lens - such as some of the LUMIX range.

Although the difference between 35mm and 28mm equivalent lenses may not sound like a lot, a 28mm camera really allows you to fit a great deal more of a scene into the frame thus providing much more dramatic shots. This extra range is especially useful when you have your back against the wall indoors and are trying to take a photo of an interior, or when you want to capture a much wider landscape. It also helps you to get all your friends into one photo without cutting off people's heads or arms!

Due to Panasonic success in becoming the world's first manufacturer to successfully mass-produce an EA (extra-high refractive index aspherical) lens, the LUMIX range offers the world's slimmest digital still camera with a 28mm wide-angle lens*. Accordingly you get the wide angles, without a bulging or bulky camera!

* As for a digital still camera with optical zoom lens compatible with 28mm wide angle as of 31st January, 2007.