The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS3 Digital Camera provides easy and simple operation so that users at every level of photographic expertise can enjoy taking beautiful pictures. Despite its remarkably compact and slim body, the stylish DMC-FS3 provides an impressive 1/2.5", 8.1-megapixel effective resolution CCD to capture all of the exquisite detail of the scene, and its 3x Optical Zoom (33 - 100mm equivalent) Leica DC Vario-Elmar Lens, providing a sigtly wider angle of view as compared to other point-and-shoot cameras in its class so you can capture group shots, or landscapes with a bit more ease.