The digital still camera is a treat to use.

While the camera looks like it needs flares and has a name like it never made it off the drawing board there are some features that make this camera an attractive buy

At just on $4,400, the 500A cannot really be considered a consumer DV camera, however, it is no doubt a camera a lot of consumers would like to own. However, the price and some annoying little problems stopped this camera from being the Labs Winner this month.

This Panny 'corder can shoot stills at a resolution of 4-megapixels, which makes it a match for a still camera

If the CCD is the brain of a digital video camera it is logical that three should be better than one. A single CCD has to deal with all colours together while a 3-CCD system divides the primary red, green and blue (RGB) colours to individual CCDs to give a much more precise and accurate picture. The result is a high quality image that is as good as any of the cameras tested - including the Sony DVD201E, which provided the benchmark for most of the others.

This well-priced mini cam fits snugly in the palm of your hand and like any good entry-level camera can even be used by a child. It's just a matter of pointing and shooting which gets points in our books for a consumer camera.

Panasonic claims this to be the world's smallest palm-type DV camera, and who am I to argue?

Image quality is reasonable, but there are far better cameras available for less.

The first thing that stood out with this camera is the absolutely massive 2in LCD display

It's a mini adventure with the S10. A go anywhere, shoot anything cam that won't break the bank and delivers well for its size

The Panasonic NV-GS15 is the cheaper version of the NV-GS120, but you wouldn't pick it to look at them. It is not until you start to use it that you discover why it is $600 cheaper than its big brother with the three CCD's. The single, 800,000 (400,000 effective) pixel CCD produces average picture quality and certainly nothing that would compare with the 1.62 million (1.02 million effective) of the NV-GS120.

Panasonic has gone above and beyond, releasing its NV-GS35 with its massive 30x optical zoom, dwarfing the usual 20 or so times zooms found on other cameras.

Much like the PC and component market, mobile phones have a product lifecycle that changes so rapidly it's hard to keep up. Panasonic has stayed with their tried and true clamshell design, first made popular by the GD88 and continued with the X700. This handset turns their previous generations upside down, offering Panasonic's first smart phone based on Symbian OS version 7.0.

Good quality and with a proper li-ion battery, but expensive and bulky compared to the Olympus.

Battery life is the only downside to this excellent compact camera.

It may not be a looker, but in all other respects this Panasonic is a stunning camera

A capable enough performer, but it doesn’t offer enough for the money to come out on top.

How much? Never mind what the LX-1 costs, just see what it does – yes, it’s pricey, but boy is it worth it

Key improvements over the SD5 make this a still more enticing pocket HD camcorder prospect

Mid-range priced but fully featured, Panasonic's EB-VS3 is our new favourite chatbrick.