When I read some reviews here, I can only say that here again comparing apples with pears, or again be faulted points that can only be explained by inexperience. I have tested many digital cameras in recent years. This Canon and Casio delivered repeatedly from very good for everyday use cameras. But this Panasonic Lumix TZ7 provides for me everything in the shade what so far I could test on compact cameras. I will now again not list everything that was written here several times. But the picture quality is excellent thanks to the Leica lens TOP. I do not know the Compact provides a better picture quality and with a fantastic zoom range of 25-300mm. Even the 3 "display is of very good quality. The manual controls are indeed as good as non-existent, but the scene modes cover nearly any practical relevance reception area. The TZ7 is the best + most practical all-round compact camera that I know. Therefore uneingeschrängte buy recommendation !