Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18E-K

After developing an interest in photography through a previous job, I was keen to get an SLR camera. Having pestered my parents in the run-up to Christmas, I received this camera, and it was love within a few hours! My parents, understandably unsure of whether my new love of photography was simply a passing phase, had seen this as a good compromise between an SLR and the compact digital cameras. And they were right. The camera is lightweight and easy to use. I never actually read the instruction manual, but instead prefered to play around with settings and find what worked for me. With an impressive zoom and good size digital display screen, the quality of ...

I love this camera. I started an interest in photography a year ago and my family chipped in and got me this camera. It's brilliant especially for a first time user. It's not too technical and extremely easy to use. The quality of the pictures are fantastic I got some real stunning shots using this. Its got an ati shake mode, so my pictures are hardly blurry! There's many different modes too. I tend to use the I mode and can adjust the MP and ISO. It's a really good feature to have on a camera. It's easy to upload pics too. I just pop my memory card into the laptop and off i go. I am still getting used to all the functions. I have to ...

Full review -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had been after a Digital SLR for some time, and when the opportunity arose to buy one I did just that. Well, that's not actually technically true. By rights this camera is not a digital SLR, but in fact a compact 'superzoom' camera, it looks like a digital SLR and definitely performs like one though. I had been saving for a while, not really with anything particular in mind to buy at the end of my saving spree, just in the knowledge that if I saved for long enough then I could eventually buy something that I would not normally be able to. As it turns out, the ...