Panasonic LUMIX DMC-TS3 Rugged Full HD Video Recording Camera

Another rugged things. While Sony comes with its new TX10 camera, Panasonic offers you a new camera in its LUMIX family, DMC-TS3. The interesting one in this new gadget is you can take the camera up to 12m deep underwater. It’s fantastic compared with TX10 which only having up to 5m deep waterproof.

Through a 28mm wide-angle LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens with up to 4.6x optical zoom, 12.1-megapixel Hi-Speed CCD sensor, a Dolby Digital audio system and powered by Venus Engine FHD, the DMC-TS3 can record 1920 x 1080 full-High Definition videos with great sound performance and create 3D photos as well that can be played on Panasonic VIERA Plasma Z1 series or on Sony Bravia HX820 for your 3D photos.

For your social network, the LUMIX Image Uploader helps you to upload the images or videos easily to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or others simply by inserting the SD card memory to your laptop or connect Panasonic DMC-TS3 to PC via USB cable. In addition, the gadget features a 2.7-inch 230,000-dot resolution LCD, an internal clock, a built-in GPS function, compass, altimeter and barometer.

Panasonic DMC-TS3 camera is expected to hit market in March 2011 in red, orange, silver, and blue. The pricing will be announced in February. So, which one is your choice, Tx10 or TS3? TS3 is fatter than TX10. But sometime being fat is sexy, right? [Dandy Gadget Source]