What I like about the Panasonic FZ20

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The lens is great. I thought these two photos illustrate some of its strengths. The first was zoomed all the way out at 6mm and the second was zoomed all the way in at 72mm. These were both on a tripod in the same spot before I started moving in closer to the birds so the IS was not needed here but it does help me a great deal on handheld shots.