The Panasonic Lumix DMC FX40 is up versus a good deal of beauteous stiff contest when it comes to pocket sized digital cameras. To try and make the Lumix DMC FX40 stand out from the crowd Panasonic has included an ultra wide angle lens. A wide angle lens helps you squeeze more of a wide scene into a photo. So this could be a big attraction to you if you like to take a lot of sweeping landscape shots or groups of people.

As with other cameras in this series you may increase the amount of zoom available if you are prepared to shoot at lower resolutions. Doing this will save space on the memory card and may likewise increase the quality of the pictures you take.

Another big attraction apart from the ultra wide zoom lens could be the High Definition movie mode. Although I would not assert that this may wholly replace a camcorder, you can not zoom in and out while recording for a start, this may come in handy if you want to fire off the occasional movie clip without carrying your camcorder around with you.

With dimensions of 95.3 x 52.9 x 21.5mm the Lumix DMC FX40 will fit into most pockets without much of a problem. Panasonic has devised black, silver and red versions. In terms of design I would describe it as a simple, unfussy camera. It has a smooth, matt finish. This helps to give the camera a sentiment of quality. It weighs 128g without a battery or memory card. This makes it one of the more lightweight digital cameras.

I found this camera easy to use. Just how elaborated you find it depends to a big degree on how numerous of the features you plan to take vantage of. The menu runs to three and a half pages, with an further and added set up menu. Items such as the resolution, focusing mode and white remainder are changed through the menu system. So it is possible you will not feel the need to delve into the menu too often. When you do you ought to find it a simple task to find the setting you wish to change, even if you need to scroll through a few screens first.

On the back of the Lumix DMC FX40 in the top right hand corner is a control dial. You use this to modify the shooting mode. For example you use the dial to place the camera in macro mode. The camera also has an iA mode. This stands for intellectual auto. In this mode the camera will check for mutual types of photograph such as a landscape scene and set the controls accordingly to take the best possible picture. This mode is worth testing out, but it most situations I have not noticed any substantial divergence in picture quality amidst this mode and the usual automatic mode.

The Lumix DMC FX40 surely takes bright, colourful photos, but I will have to confess to being a little disappointed with the sharpness of the more distant shots I took. This softness becomes more and more noticeable as you move away from the centre of the shot. I have noticed this with the former model in this series as well. This is not up to the frequent high usual set by Panasonic. It may not be a problem with snapshot sized prints, but it will become noticeable with more spectacular print sizes.

There are 40 megabytes of storage space built into the Panasonic Lumix DMC FX40. This sounds a reasonable amount, but if you are shooting at the full 12 megapixel solution this only provides sufficient space for around 8 photos.

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