Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ55

Strengths outweigh the tech – An excellent travel camera with excellent picture quality, fantastic zoom abilities, and the all important Lumix quality. Released late 2014, and heavily discounted after a year, this camera deserves better reviews than it received. It was pricey, and had it's fair share of foibles.....a tricky wifi connection, and poorly designed app, and an auto focus and auto white balance with a mind of it's own (sometimes). It promised too much. However, forget about the hype. Turn off the bells and whistles......just use as a travel camera, and you will be rewarded with crystal clear pictures. The TZ55 will impress if you learn to use all the functions, aperture priority, shutter priority, adjustable f stops, and so much more...or set it to AI.....auto, and point and shoot. This camera, with it's heavily discounted price (new and secondhand), will reward you over and over again. If you do get the wifi sorted, and connected to your smartphone, you can control the camera remotely, zoom in, take a shot, and upload to your phone.....all without touching the camera. (It took me half an hour). It features a flip up screen for VLOG / selfies, picture stabilisation, and full HD video 1080p capable. New examples are about $250AUD whilst 2nd hand are from around $80AUD....shop around and look for items with a low shutter count....under 8K . Happy snapping! (and don't fall for the trap buying from a US seller.......way overpriced!!)