Photos: The touchscreen Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500

Things hot up even more round the back. This 76mm (3-inch) LCD screen puts modes at your fingertips: it's a touchscreen, and a rather good one. Choose from scene modes like portrait or landscape or food -- if you want to -- by lightly tapping the screen. When shooting, lock focus on to a particular object or person, and have the camera track them around the frame as you move the camera. In playback, tapping zooms and sliding your finger swooshes around the image. And it gets better...