This allows you to take a picture and afterwards you can change the focus point from something close in view to a further point or vice versa and capture the exact picture you want.4k video is also available but be advised that the image stabilizer does not work in this mode

1 Inch bsi sensor allows sharper images and better low light image and video quality much better than the tiny 1/2.3in

and I just couldn’t get clear, crisp images.

You will get usable images up to ISO 6400

but if you have to either boost your ISO (adding noise back in) or lengthen your shutter speed (making shake blur more likely, even with this camera's awesome image stabilization) to achieve a useful brightness, it seems to me that benefit is negated

I read some reviews that complained about mediocre image quality.

This one has a 1-inch sensor which is supposed to capture great images

The sensor is 4X larger than the average compact megazoom and I'd say the picture is 4X better and even though the zoom is only 10X the digital zoom maxed out and cropped can easily get you to 30X with BETTER image quality than the standard compact megazoom

I just returned from a three week trip during which I tested my new camera in a variety of daylight and night time settings and was able to create terrific images repeatedly

My one complaint about this camera is that the HDR mode does a poor job of aligning the 3 images, resulting in an unusable image at least 1/2 of the time

The image and video quality is very good to

Also zooming out to 250mm results in a soft image

The Lumix does not have as fast a lens and is considerably heavier and larger, also the viewfinder is not as good as on the Sony; nevertheless I bought the ZS100 as it is much less