The Panasonic TZ80 is a compact camera for people who want to have it all. It has a huge 30x optical zoom, but is very small and can even shoot 4K video. Its bullet-point list of features is pretty impressive. At ￡329, though, the Panasonic TZ80's images don't exactly blow us away.

30x zoom lens offers great flexibility; Small enough to fit in some pockets; Lots of burst mode options

Image quality not great; Lens is slow; and soft towards the end of its zoom; Some laggy parts of the interface

Great zoom and easy to use. However the camera has two significant flaws. 1. The writing on the controls wore off so I had to memorize the functions. 2. The battery cover broke off easily. Love the touch screen.

Compact

Build quality

Purchased the camera in 2017. I mainly take mountain scenery both photo and video. the spec looked great for me especially the great zoom. unfortunately I cannot get good pictures out of this camera. the focusing is terrible. I cannot get it to focus.

A pocket sized camera packed with useful features, but the TZ80's image quality lets it down.

The Lumix TZ80 / ZS60 is the natural successor to the TZ70 / ZS50, the previous flagship travel zoom from Panasonic. Forgetting about the TZ100 / ZS100 for a moment, the TZ80 / ZS60 remains the obvious choice for those looking to pack an awesomely long zoom range into a pocketable format.

The TZ80 isn't short of attractive features, but disappointing image quality is hard to forgive from a camera that costs over ￡300. One thing it does well is to take photos of distant subjects in direct sunlight, but that's pretty niche.

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