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Review summary: Intelligence comes to digital cameras

Review summary: Intelligence comes to digital cameras

Pros: Rich and detailed images, Rich and detailed images, Very easy to use thanks to automatic modes, Sturdy build, Good lens

Cons: Menu button can get in the way, Menu button can get in the way, Image stabilisation not perfect, No viewfinder

Verdict: A good value sturdy camera for anyone wanting all-round performance. Its images are some of the best we've seen in its class.

Review summary: Built around a lens forged in the vaunted house of Leica, the FX55 is packed with a laundry list of features: an ultra wide zoom with twin mode optical image stabilization, three aspect ratios, and a three-inch LCD. Sweet specs, right? Yup, they are. ...

Pros: Beautiful industrial design with superior Leica optics. Shoots in 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. Sharp QuickTime videos.

Cons: Menus are unnecessarily murky. Key functions like exposure compensation, flash adjustment, and delete require deep menu digging rather than direct access. The function dial makes mode changes slower than a tortoise full of rigor mortis.

Review summary: The 8-megapixel Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX55 squeezes a 3.6x optical zoom into its slender ultracompact frame, and its Leica lens goes as wide as 28mm, proving very useful for group portraits and landscapes. Easy to use and with crisp images, it's the ...

Pros: Large bright LCD screen, simple to use (particularly with Intelligent Auto Mode) ; rechargeable battery

Cons: No removable media supplied ; could be faster writing maximum-resolution shots ; optical image stabilisation not always infallible

Verdict: Panasonic's run of producing the goods when it comes to digital compacts shows no signs of slowing. The Lumix DMC-FX55 is easy to use and reliable, producing consistently sharp, evenly exposed, colourful images -- it's all you could hope for from a ...

Review summary: Like the entire 2007 Lumix line, the Lumix DMC-FX55 incorporates Panasonic's revolutionary Intelligent Image Stabilization technologies, and is among the first Panasonic cameras to offer Intellig...