Panasonic's DMC-TZ50: a TZ5 with WiFi and Picasa photo sharing, maybe

Take Panasonic's 9.1 megapixel TZ5 with 10x optical zoom and 3-inch LCD, slap in some 802.11b/g WiFi and what do you get? This, the Lumix DMC-TZ50. As with most WiFi cameras, the TZ50 can upload your pictures from any WiFi hotspot but is then locked into specific image sharing sites; in this case, Panny's own Lumix Club. There is hope for a more open model, however, when the TZ50 goes global. After all, the Panasonic / T-Mobile WiFi demo we saw at CES tied images to Google's Picasa. Ok, it's not Flickr but it's a start. Available May 16th in Japan for ¥49,800 or about $500.

[Via Impress]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 5:14AM]

My Adobe Elements and Flickr weep. The Eye-Fi is still too small @ 2GB as well. Hope there are ways around it, might get a TZ5 in the future.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 10:28AM]

I love the lumix series in terms of features and prices but pansonic really needs to work on making these look good. whats the point of having all the great new features in a camera that's looks old dated.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 3:00PM]

What's so hard about plugging the camera into the computer? :)