Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ10EG-K

Ease of use - wide screen movies

Shutter delay could be that little faster, especially with flash

I would have liked to have seen a touch more sharpness and a touch more brightness in some of the shots I took with the Panasonic DMC LZ10. It has a good set of features and is available for a reasonable price.

While image quality in auto mode is not great with the versatile creative control you can always improve your pictures.

The new Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ10 could easily go completely unnoticed in a sea of look-a-like compact digital cameras, but is actually one of the more interesting models currently available on the market. The rather conservative styling, fairly compact...

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ10 will retail for around US$250, and goes on sale in the USA from February 2008

Decent image quality ; Wide-angle 30mm Leica lens ; Slew of manual controls and scene modes

Only takes AA batteries ; No optical viewfinder ; Image noise a huge issue ; Small grip

The LZ10 has a 30mm wide-angle Leica lens and a 5x optical zoom which allows you to fit more in a photo than with a 35mm lens for landscape shots and more. The 5x zoom also can be boosted to 8.9x thanks to the Extra Optical Zoom function. The camera...

Wide-angle range more than most, Full range of manual controls, Good color, minimal processing, Excellent ISO performance (in its class), Customizable noise reduction settings

Lens suffers from varying degrees of edge softness, Focus speed a little slower than expected, Questionable flash pictures, Strange color temperature changes with ISO increase, Plastic grip pad isn't comfortable

It features a maximum aperture range of f/3.3 to 5.9 on its Leica DC Vario-Elmarit branded lens, a 2.5 inch LCD (with 230,000 pixels), 20 megabytes of internal memory and the ability to take 460 shots per charge of it's batteries.

Very good photo quality, less noise reduction than previous models (though see issues below), Wide-angle, 5X optical zoom lens, Optical image stabilization, Compact, generally well constructed body, Sharp 2.5" LCD display with excellent outdoor...

Images a bit noisy, especially in shadows; noise reduction still very present in low light, Redeye a big problem, Poor low light focusing, No optical viewfinder, Not much built-in memory, Plastic tripod mount, No USB 2.0 High Speed support, Camera...

It features a maximum aperture range of f/3.3 to 5.9 on its Leica DC Vario-Elmarit branded lens, a 2.5 inch LCD (with 230,000 pixels), 20 megabytes of internal memory and the ability to take 460 shots per charge of it's batteries