Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 (Lumix DMC-FZ38)

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 is a very capable super zoom camera/camcorder hybrid. It offers an 18X optical zoom lens with a nice focal range, an enhanced image stabilization system, full manual controls, expandability and, of course, plenty of bells and whistles. It's also pretty good in the movie department: you can record 720p video until your memory card fills up (except in Europe), manual controls are available, and you have full use of the optical zoom and image stabilizer. Of course, no camera is perfect, and the FZ35 does have its flaws (such as shadow noise in photos and a video codec that's frustrating to work with), but despite that, it's easily one of the top super zoom cameras on the market. Read full review ...

Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-FZ38 / FZ35 may represent a fairly minor upgrade over its predecessor, but given that was one of the best super-zoom cameras of the past year, the new model has a great heritage to build on. So with the FZ38 / FZ35 you get a compact, lightweight super-zoom camera with 12 Megapixel resolution, a flexible 18x optically-stabilised range, HD video recording in the 720p format, support for RAW files, a medium-sized but good-looking 2.7in screen, manual controls and one... Read full review ...