Have you bought it yet?

Anyway, in 2004 I bought the then new Panasonic FZ20. 5mp.
In 2006 I won the Photographer of the year in my Camera club.
The plaudits above re. Panasonic are true. The Image Stabilisation is superb, even on the gimmicky 48 x Zoom (Digital Zoom is always a gimmick) I could literally grab-snap at an aircraft at 35,000 feet and it would be sharp enough to count the windows. (I used the 48 zoom as a telescope only). And don’t forget, it has movie mode.
And now, Panasonic have introduced a DSLR, I bet it’s a stunner.

I now own a Canon 450D, obviously with 12mp and the ability to shoot RAW I am getting superb results but the IS does not match that of Panasonic.

If your budget can only stretch to one camera with no extra money for lenses, I would go Panasonic DSLR “Lookalike”. It can satisfy the holiday snapshot right through to the competition pictures. Obviously, if you enlarge a square inch out of the 35 inch wide picture, your going to find faults but I doubt you need a full prof. camera.