I had made a choice for my plunge into digital but waiting for my local store to carry the one I wanted I had time for my mind to wander and more important to educate myself a bit more. I have learned perhaps I don't really need the highest mega-pixel P&S. I don't plan on printing anything larger than 8X10 since that's all my printer can do. I happened upon this Panasonic model which possesses the one thing I would really miss from my current Minolta SLR and that is big telephoto. My question is, since I identify Panasonic with a wide variety of item's, none of them camera's, how is the reliability for their camera's? And what do you all think of this particular model? Thanks, Hank L.