I came across this so called problem with the Panasonic FZ30 earlier this year while deciding on a superzoom or DSLR. Looking at either the FZ30 or FZ50`s pictures at 100% your first thought is `wow, that`s bad` but the FZ30 performs some sort of miracle because viewed normally at screen size it`s top notch and printed output is amazing, razor sharp with beautiful colour. The other superb thing about the FZ30 is that the prints contained NO jaggies at all. The edges of straight lines & curves were very clean and without any colour bleeding.
Viewing pictures at 100% from cameras can be a fatal mistake for judging a camera. I would certainly choose a camera that viewed bad at 100% and printed beautifully rather than vice versa. You may want to print those pictures one day in the future!
I can only conclude the FZ50 will have the same characteristics. Going from 8mp to 10mp is`nt really going to bring a noticable difference but it sounds better when you say it`s 10mp.
I went for a DSLR in the end because of cleaner high iso performance but the FZ30 is a mighty impressive camera as should be the FZ50.
Included link that shows what the FZ30 is capable of in the right hands. Approx 300 pics
http://http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://razorsharp.smugmug.com/gallery/462956/1/53196603/Large&prev=/language_tools_br__br_Copy
