OK performance, exorbitant price

So why the poor review? It applies to the pricing and products from Panasonic: The battery contains a specially coded chip is scanned by the camera. Foreign manufacturers have since currently no chance so that the customer purchase the completely overpriced original part must, if he wants to have a spare or replacement battery.

The camera itself (Panasonic DMC TZ 7) I have a very positive assessment, because it simply gives very good results registered but these gag policy for the battery part of the manufacturer, I find quite simply wrong.

We can only hope that a resourceful head in the Far East it will soon take to circumvent the license problem somehow and offer the market a reasonable replacement battery at a reasonable price!