SlashScope

A review of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50S (silver) 10 megapixel digital camera has been posted over at ZDNet. 'Superzooms are nothing new, but somewhere along the line, a portion of them have evolved into catch-all SLR substitutes, with long, fast zoom lenses, high megapixel counts, manual exposure controls, and in some cases, even hotshoes and raw image capture. Plus, they record video. For now, that's something you can't get from an SLR. Panasonic's Lumix DMC-FZ50 sports a 12X optical, 35mm-to-420mm, f/2.8-to-f/3.7 zoom lens; and a 10.1-megapixel CCD sensor; and it has a body that's as big and heavy as an SLR.'