Does anyone have a Panasonic Lumix camera?

[Floweryfields]

I want to get a new camera and I was leaning towards a canon, but heard about the panasonic lumix cameras, but I don't know a lot about panasonic ones. So are they any good and would you recommend them at all?

A friend has the lumix one you can drop and put in water, etc. She got it because her camera seemed to always be getting broken. She's had it for quite a while now and it takes good photos. Only downside with it is it has an internal battery that you have to plug it in to charge - so it doesn't take normal batteries.

[Trillian]

Thanks for the feedback. I don't necessarily need a DSLR, because the zoom is what I want - there is a canon that does a 20x zoom, and the panasonic does 24x, but the panasonic does have the battery pack and the canon takes regular batteries and I love that. I currently have a canon powershot, so that is why I was inclined to get another canon because we can't fault the one we have, but we've outgrown it. Then I was told about the new lumix cameras that are coming out late this month and next month and they are the ones I was looking at. It's just so hard!

[Shanti]

We had one and sold it as I didn't think the quality was as good as the canon's we've had.... we ended up with another canon

[Cassius2]

we have the panasonic lumix and although i like it, i LOVE the canon we had and wished that we had of just upgraded instead of switching. FWIW canon are the leaders in digital technology and i reckon it shows!