Mangi Lal said..
The Panasonic FZ18 is a Great Cam with awesome functionality. It works like a charm and it is a bit smaller than the comparative super zooms available and it is not too heavy at 407g.The 2.5 inch LCD display screen works wonderfully in all kinds of lighting conditions. Many manufacturers put high zoom lenses that are painful to handle because of the ridiculously bad image stabilization. The FZ18 doesn't fall in that category. Even in indoor lighting, I got quite a few perfectly sharp and stable shots at full 18x zoom, which I find commendable. The 8.1 mega pixel resolution may not sound very exciting, Its 8.1 mega pixels is more than enough for an A3 size print.
The results are pretty outstanding, and by the looks of it, scene modes could soon be a thing of the past. I found the FZ18 zoom very easy to handle thanks to Panasonic's excellent optical image stabilization. Panasonic's done a good job of it in the FZ50.