Panasonic Lumix ZS99 Review: Pocketable Point-and-Shoot With a Long Zoom

8.0 / 10 SCORE Panasonic Lumix ZS99 Pros Impressive zoom for its size Screen rotates for easy selfies Easy to use for beginners, plus some manual features Cons Image quality is decent, but not great Compact but not "small" Low-light performance is mediocre We're seeing a bit of a resurgence in point-and-shoot cameras, with the used market going crazy and several brands, including Canon, coming out with new models. That's pretty interesting because the entire category was considered dead a few years ago. The new Panasonic Lumix ZS99 is a compact, 20.3-megapixel camera with an impressive 30x optical zoom. It's marketed as a "travel zoom" and features a variety of automatic modes as well as some more advanced manual features for those who know or want to learn. The result is a camera that can do some things phones simply can't but it also stumbles with a few things they can. The ZS99's small 1/2.3-inch sensor, roughly the size you'd find in some phones, struggles in low light witho ... Read full article.