Body only applications from landscape to portrait. This makes the lens more powerful than ordinary standard zooms, which mostly only start from 28 mm focal length combined with a 3x zoom. It gets its exceptional robustness thanks to dust and spray water protection, as well as a compact size, that cannot be achieved in conventional SLR cameras. Typical for Lumix, the Power O.I.S. image stabiliser ensures wobble-free recording by hand or in low light conditions. It is also compatible with dual stabilisation (Dual IS) to provide an even more effective equalisation of camera shake blurring.