"The camera is very well built, as all Lumix cameras are. The body is of metal, superbly finished, all the controls are precise and fall well to hand. The image quality from the 1" sensor is excellent, especially as it is married up with a 25-250 zoom. JPEG's strait from the camera are detailed, with good saturation and contrast, and very low noise, even in low light levels, and RAW is available. The camera really 'shines' at low light levels, giving almost DSLR quality, and the native aspect ratio is 3:2 for the full 20.1MP. Small sensor cameras are usually native 4:3, which I do not like. All in all, and excellent photographers compact camera which will supplement my DSLR very well...........so why not 5 stars? We come back to that 'beautiful body'! Although there is a small ridge in the body for the right hand fingers to 'get a grip' it's as smooth as a very smooth thing, and that makes it very slippery. A good wrist or neck strap is essential, as you will lose grip sometime, and without, the camera will bite the concrete. What angers me is that the TZ 200, almost the same camera, with a 15:1 zoom, does have a good finger-grip. There's no reason why Panasonic couldn't have used the same grip on the 100. Mean penny pinching, and Panasonic lose a star for that."

"I wanted a small, light, good quality camera to be able to carry with me in a bag or a pocket when out walking. I was not disappointed! Very pleased!"