| Design | 3.5/5 |
| Display & Viewfinder | 3.7/5 |
| Menus & Buttons | 3.8/5 |
| Features | 3.3/5 |
| Image quality | 3.4/5 |
| Sensor | 3/5 |
| Lens | 3.2/5 |
| Transfer & Storage | 3.2/5 |
| Accessories | 3/5 |
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Pros:
Great touch-screen Playback functionality. Nice 25mm wide-angle lens. Highly portable and good-looking. |
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Cons:
Panasonic’s hybrid touch-screen compact is put to the full test. Read the full Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500 review here. |
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| Hybrid touch-screen functionality is what the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500 is all about and we had mixed feelings about its performance within the shooting aspects of this camera. Playback with the touch-screen interface was highly intuitive, and we got much more out of the image review feature than adjusting the shutter speed and aperture via onscreen slider bars. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500 is sleek, sexy and highly portable. We liked certain design elements like the shutter button zoom toggle and 25mm wide-angle lens. However, image quality was not up to par, even when compared to members of its own family tree. We highly recommend taking the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500 for a test drive if you're hell-bent on a touch-screen interface, though we'd opt for Panasonic's interface over Sony's any day. |
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