June 15th, 2009
Top five digital cameras for Father's Day
Next Sunday is Father’s Day and while I can’t afford to buy all the fathers in my family a new digital camera, my favorite fathers make such a diverse group that this fantasy wishlist for my top five dads makes a great top five cameras list for those of you shopping for your favorite patriarch:
My Father: The World Traveler
I clearly inherited my penchant for traveling from my peripatetic dad. Though he boarded his first plane relatively late in life (in his late 20s, compared to my children who both got their first passports at 3 months of age), he has made up for lost time in spades, especially now that he is semiretired. Among the other trips he drags my mother on several times a year, he’s closing in on his mission to visit 50 Places of a Lifetime (and is actually in Vancouver ticking off one more place as I write this). His digital camera needs to be easy to use, pocketable, and very versatile — in a nutshell, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3. I’ve written about this megazoom a lot (because I love it). With its 25-300mm-equivalent 12x zoom lens, 3-inch high-res LCD, and AVCHD Lite HD video-shooting capabilities — not to mention 27 easy-to-use and useful scene modes — the ZS3 would have served my folks well on their month-long jaunt through Africa back in February. If your favorite father has the wanderlust as well, look no further than this camera.
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Janice Chen has been covering technology for almost two decades. She got her hands on a Nikon Coolpix 900 back in 1998 and has been a digital camera enthusiast ever since. See her full profile and disclosure of her industry affiliations.
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