Sony released the Cyber-shot DSC-H1 as a new form factor addition to its long and very broad line of digital cameras. Like many other long zoom cameras, the Sony H1’s miniature SLR look and feel immediately instilled confidence, with the big grip and large lens barrel housing the excellent 12x optical zoom lens.
The newly-released [...]

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7K, with its 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom, features a Leica DC Vario-Elmarit Lens with a remarkable 12x optical zoom. This is equivalent to a 35 to 430 millimeter lens on a 35mm film camera.
While a film camera with an optical zoom this powerful would be so big and heavy you [...]