You should know that this compact (like many compacts) is the penultimate smaller sensor. It should be understood that all these devices, when displaying images on a computer, one already sees without zoom smoothing. This is normal, there's no miracle. But for what it is, I think it is a very good product. I took the moon with max zoom x30 HAND LIFT and is net (I do not mean smoothing, but blurring or sharpness). Incredible! Compared to my TZ10, they did a good regarding stabilization.