Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500: Sweet like chocolate

...It's a touchscreen! Yes, you can get mucky fingerprints all over that lovely display. Or you can use the crazy stylus, supplied with the camera -- hands: model's own.

When it comes to touchscreens, the jury's so out it could lead a San Francisco Pride march. Basic settings are controlled by the joystick, with options fine-tuned on the touchscreen. This involves moving sliders, a method we enjoy using on the Samsung NV series as it gives fine-textured and intuitive control over, say, aperture and shutter speed.

The touchscreen also allows you to input text, and set focus and exposure to a particular point in the the frame by prodding it with finger, stylus or sharpened poky-stick. We'll be jabbing at it with chocolate-smeared fingers for a full review before you can say, "Ooh, it's an unevenly thick concave meniscus extra-high refractive index aspherical lens. Sweet."

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