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Review summary: Panasonic joins the touch-screen revolution...

Pros: Build quality, performance, touch-screen

Cons: Price

Verdict: The Panasonic Lumix FX500 is a well made camera with useful features and a very good touch-screen interface. It looks great, performs well, and produces excellent pictures. It may be expensive, but it's worth every penny.

Award: Recommended!

Review summary: Panasonic joins the touch-screen revolution; finally someone does it right

Review summary: The Panasonic DMC FX500 is a 10 megapixel digital camera with a 5x optical zoom lens. It has more features than any other pocket sized camera David Tymon from Cameras.co.

Verdict: There is no doubt that the Panasonic DMC FX500 is an impressive camera when it comes to the number of features packed into its compact body. Picture quality is good too and all in all Panasonic have produced a very good digital camera

Review summary: The Panasonic DMC FX500 is a 10 megapixel pocket camera with a 5x zoom lens. It has more features than any other pocket camera I have reviewed. These include a wide angle lens, manual exposure controls, High Definition movies and the ability to ...

Pros: Ease of use - high definition movies - high angle LCD screen - design - manual exposure controls - touch screen controls

Cons: A touch more brightness in some of the photos

Verdict: Loads of features, including manual exposure modes and High Definition movies. This camera offers something more than all the more standard pocket cameras. It is well worth closer inspection.

Review summary: Two big-zooming, ten-meg compacts for your consideration

Pros: Panasonic FX500; Excellent shutter and aperture control; Ricoh R8; Superb screen. Big zoom. Simple controls

Cons: Panasonic FX500; Expensive. Over-hyped touchscreen; Ricoh R8; Could do with more manual tweakage

Verdict: Both are compacts with clout but the Ricoh wins due to the price and its user friendly-ness