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Summary: There are several components to a digital camera. Learn about these important features with tips from a camera enthusiast in this free photography video.
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This is a digital camera and it's a pro sumer model. Which means it's somewhere between a digital SLR and a consumer version. This is a Lumix, not Panasonic FZ18 and they have two different versions of it. One is the black version, which is what this one is and then also have a silver version of it. This is the lens on it, this is an 18x zoom. The flash is right here and you use this button to open it, and you just press it down to close it. This is where you'll set up your modes and there's an on/off switch right by your modes setup. The lens cap is attached through this string which comes with the camera and the lens cap comes with it also. This part here is a sunshade and this doesn't come with the camera but you can get this at Radio Shack and it comes in silver only at Radio Shack so I spray painted it black. You can buy this on the internet and camera stores that's molded out of black plastic but it's about twenty dollars. This is the camera strap and it attaches securely on either side, and underneath is you slide this to the right, open this up and here's where your rechargeable battery, it's a proprietary battery, it's a lithium ion rechargeable, you can't use double A's in this battery and here's what you put the memory card, it uses an SD memory card. I've got a two gig memory card in it right now. Right over here is where you can attach power from the wall or from a cigarette lighter and right here is where you connect and a cable that will connect through a USB connection to your computer. This is a viewfinder so you can use either the viewfinder or your LCD panel on the back.