Excellent all round camera with surprisingly strong video capabilities I've had the camera for 6 months (I don't think you can review a camera any earlier due the novelty factor, and you can't master all the controls in that time!) Picture quality is excellent. It takes a little getting used to focussing - either on a different part of the subject, or blurring too easily. However with a little time and some experience, these two issues can be easily avoided. The video camera ability is astounding. It is an excellent video camera for inside and outside, short videos.... more info
FZ18 is superb Just returned from Costa Rica and the FZ18 proved to be a wonderful purchase. I selected this camera for my wife, after many hours of research and it turned out to be a little gem. On holiday it regularly out perform expensive SLRs and made getting that 'instant snap' an easy and successful process. As a 'point and shoot' camera, you'd be hard pushed to find better, but it can do so much more if required. It's flexibilty, incredible zoom and picture performance make it a must have for anyone needing more... more info
Fantastic camera I have owned this camera for 6 months and use it take pictures of my son playing Rugby and now no other camera is good enough. It's excellent and if you reduce pictures to 5 Megapixel you get 23x Optical zoom which is simply superb in sport mode. Also, unlike some top end SLR's you can follow the action on the LCD and then take the picture which is much better than squinting your eye into a little viewfinder. I have lost count of the people with proper SLR's who moan about that. If you buy an... more info
Fab camera Does what it says on the box! Ordered Monday, arrived Wednesday. I'm not very knowledgable about cameras but this takes great pictures. Have taken photos of a baby, panoramic & night-time. They all look good! Buy if you can.
50 plus user, beginner.
