Photos: The touchscreen Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500

Admittedly, it doesn't look all that from the front. The brushed aluminium face is quite fetching, but it's still boxy -- although the cherry-red version is prettier. There's that unwieldy silver bar for the right hand to grip that Panasonic has been insisting on lately. But there's another Panasonic constant too: a Leica lens. This one is a stunningly wide 25mm wide-angle lens, making this one of the widest compacts going. As if that wasn't enough, it also packs a 5x optical zoom, making this an extremely versatile snapper. And that's not the only headline feature...