Panasonic's LUMIX FH7 Hits Stores in July for $180

Panasonic on Friday announced pricing for its new 16.1-megapixel digital camera, the LUMIX DMC–FH7. It will be available in early-July 2011 for $179.99.

The LUMIX DMC-FH7 features a 3-inch Smart Touch Screen, where users can enable Touch Auto Focus (AF), Touch Zoom, Touch Shutter and Intelligent Scene Selector by touching the screen. The camera also has three touch photo editing modes: Beauty Retouch – allows users to retouch faces; Esthetic – clears skin texture and whitens teeth and Makeup – gives color options such as foundation, eye-shadow or coloring for the lips and cheeks.

The LUMIX FH7 also features Leica DC lenses with a 4x optical zoom, HD video recording (1280 x 720p at 24 fps), along with Panasonic's iA technology and Venus Engine VI image processor. It includes the LUMIX Image Uploader as well, for sharing images via Facebook and video via YouTube when the camera is connected to a computer or the SD Memory Card is inserted.

For more information on all Panasonic's LUMIX digital cameras, visit www.panasonic.com/lumix.