Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX40: Life begins

If life begins at 40, things are looking good for the Panasonic Lumix FX series. The new DMC-FX40 is a stylish 12.1-megapixel-point-and-shoot camera with a wide-angle lens and long zoom.

That's a 25mm wide-angle Leica lens with a 5x optical zoom, adding up to the equivalent to 25mm to 125mm on a 35mm camera. Inside, it boasts twin CPUs to run its Venus Engine V brain. This powers up face recognition, which remembers people you've photographed and looks for them again.

Other features include a souped-up iA automatic mode, panorama assist, which creates panoramic images both vertically and horizontally, and automatic screen brightness audjustment.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX40 will come in black, silver or red. Click through the gallery for more, and to see how the FX40 rings the changes -- or not -- over its predecessors the FX33, FX35 and FX37.

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