Bonjour Gilles! C’est une excellente question. Ma réponse: même s’il n’est pas parfait, aucun appareil actuellement sur le marché ne répondrait mieux à MES besoins que le FZ10. J’avais longuement répondu à une question que m’avait posée un lecteur dans un forum de photographie récemment (en anglais), où je comparais trois appareils avec lesquels j’ai eu l’occasion de jouer. Je recopie la réponse ici, car je crois qu’elle pourra être utile:

Coolpix 5700:
Pros: Best picture I’ve seen (very low noise and compression), will give incredible results even at 200 ISO. Swivel screen. Nice to hold. Useful LCD screen that shows info about the current settings. You can save up to 3 preferred settings + all automatic).
Cons: Hard to get an exact focus, even with the 5-areas, espescially in macro situations (which I use a lot). Slow to react (really hard to do candid camera shooting). 3 bad pixels on every photo of my friend’s unit (and it is quite common with that model). Awkward positioning of some buttons and elements (but this seems to be a love-it/hate-it relation). Only 8x zoom

Olympus 750uz:
Pros: Very high picture quality (some say too sharp – but I did like the result). Very small and light. A fantastic choice at a very low price. 10x zoom. You can save your preferred settings .
Cons: As with the coolpix, focusing can be tricky in macro situations. Shooting with the zoom fully extended have to be with on a very sunny day, because of the lack of image stabilization. Use rare XD memory cards.

FZ10:
Pros: Incredible zoom. Manual focus. Manual focus. Manual focus. Manual focus. Fast to react. Great ergonomy (everything is placed where you logically first look for it). Image stabilizer. No bad pixels in my photos. Ajustable flash intensity (maybe its common, but I never noticed that possibility before). At that price, it’s the nearest I’ve seen to a digital SLR, at half the price (I don’t even crave for my friend’s Digital rebel!) Use SD memory cards (my laptop has a slot for it, which makes it a charm to transfer photos, without needing a cable). Did I say manual focus? ;-)
Cons: LCD is very dark in low-light situations (note that these are situations where I would normaly never shoot photographs anyway). No configurable users (I crave for saving my usual settings for food photography, that are the same each night). Maybe it’s just that I don’t know yet how to play with it, but so far, any photograph taken at more than 50 ISO results in very noisy images. No swivel screen.

Overall, I feel like its the most all-situations-camera available today. It will give you great macros on which you’ll choose exactly what is on focus, and will bring you near the action, thanks to the zoom. Given the price (800$ can at my door, all taxes and duties included), it is an unbeatable choice in my opinion, even with the few cons that I’ve listed (that may or may not be of importance to you). I have absolutely no regrets, and would buy another one if I had to choose based on my experience today :)

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Bouche grande ouverte, yeux écarquillés, j’admire toutes tes belles photos sur TrekEarth.
Bravo à ton oeil averti et à ton doigt de faire « clic » au bon moment pour de si belles images.
C’est plein de magie, de couleurs, de beauté, de voyage, d’humour comme le tournesol timide.
Est-ce que tu travailles un peu tes photos ensuite ou bien tu nous les livres telles quelles ?
Continue de trimballer tous les jours avec toi ce précieux appareil.