2. Slightly Pale Colors

Management of brightness and contrast is very good. So much so that we weren’t able to see any purple fringes where two highly-contrasted areas joined. However, in some shots, the whites were sometimes "burned out".

As for color, the Panasonic FZ18 was a little less impressive. We found the color rendering to be a little unnatural. The colors were generally rather drab. But that’s really one of the few faults we could find with the image quality.