Wild life enthusiasts and sports fans will find the 18 x optical zoom lens featured in the Panasonic DMC FZ28 very useful. It comes with a 10-mega pixel sensor with many manual controls. The 18 x optical zoom lens allows users of the Panasonic Lumix camera to shoot wild life and sporting activities up close. The manual controls provide users the flexibility to control on how their final photos should look like. Users can make sweeping landscape shots with the help of the flexible lens.

With Panasonic DMC FZ28, your photos turn out well-defined and very colourful. The pictures are focused and the use of zoom provides picture quality that is sharp. The straightforward Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 bridge camera is very easy to use even for first timers. An automatic mode present in the camera can be used if you are just beginning to use the camera and need time to learn all its features.

The shutter lag times are impressive but not as impressive as the Sony DSC H50, which is currently the fastest camera with super zoom feature. A single photo without flash takes 0.33 seconds, while with flash it takes 0.52 seconds to shoot a photo. To turn on the camera and shoot a picture it takes a total of 2.69 seconds.

The style of the Panasonic DMC FZ28 is based on that of a digital SLR camera and is available in two colours silver and black. The dimensions of the camera are 117.6 x 75.3 x 88.9mm and it weighs 370g.