daveFaktor wrote:

The whole issue is not about fanatical devotion to a particular brand
because you happen to own one but choosing the right tool for the job.

It's always amusing to see posts where the premise is, "I bought it, so
it must be the best product."

The FZ28 is a strange animal. Every review complains about soft, noisy
photos, due to the sensor and the noise reduction (though if you shoot
in raw mode you can get around the noise reduction and apply your own
post-processing). Yet the one thing they could have done to help users
mitigate the noise issue was to include a hot shoe for a powerful
external flash. The Canon SX10IS is a better choice for a ZLR due to
it's lower noise and hot shoe.