Pioneering long zoom design gets a sharper LCD and a GPS to boot One of the more popular digital camera categories to emerge over the past few years was pioneered by the Panasonic ZS7’s predecessors: a pocket digital camera with a surprisingly long zoom. The Panasonic ZS7 continues to impress, with a 12.1-megapixel sensor and a 12x optical zoom, a high-res 3-inch LCD, and a new GPS feature to help jog your memory of where you were when you took all those vacation shots.

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These new models are not only the most compact interchangeable-lens cameras on the market but also bring features like Sweep Panorama and Hand-Held Twilight shooting modes up from Sony’s digicam line, combining them with the dramatically higher image quality that large SLD-size pixels provide. In fact, the image quality from these new cameras is by far the best we’ve seen to date from the Sony Alpha line at the APS-C sensor size. But wait, there’s more: Sony also addresses the autofocus bugaboo many consumers encounter when they first try to record a movie with their SLR or SLD camera.

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