Garry’s camera is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8 which he had to buy rather quickly in Munich in 2010.
It was May 2010 and Garry had just started his tour of Italy. He had just cycled along the French coast from Calais to Amsterdam. And it was while he was in Holland his old camera gave up the ghost and decided that it had had enough!
With no camera (phone cameras were nowhere near as good then as they are today.) He had very little choice but to go and buy one. He was now in Munich after catching a train from Amsterdam. And had some time to kill in between getting his next train to Venice. So off he went in search of a camera shop. He soon found one near Munich’s Neues Rathaus, the Neo-Gothic town hall. The shop itself was a general appliance shop. The shop sold everything electrical but it was good enough for Garry. He just wanted a point and shoot camera!
Not having a clue or any idea about cameras! Garry decided to go for same make as his broken camera. A Panasonic, and simply bought the first one he saw!
This turned out to be a rather good choice as apparently it had one of the widest lenses on the market at the time and had a good zoom function too.
It has now sat happily on the front of Garry’s bike for over 40,000 miles! And has never given him any problems! He had to have it serviced once as there were black spots coming out on the photos. But apart from that. The only fault that Garry can find with it is that it doesn’t take very good pictures at night! But that maybe down to operator error!
