You’ve been able to take digital pictures with some Panasonic camcorders for quite some time, but now the company’s gone the full ten yards and has launched four dedicated stills cameras.
The best by far are the two 4-megapixel models, the DMC-LC5B and DMC-LC40B. Both offer Leica 3x optical zoom lenses, with images stored on tiny Secure Digital (SD) memory cards. Each camera in the range also enables you to shoot short Motion JPEG movies or take rapid-fire still images using the Burst mode.