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Anonymous
The S3IS is a very good camera; one of the best I've ever shot with. It does have a few drawbacks, most notably no raw mode.
You said you were looking at the FZ-50 because of its manual focusing ring. I haven't shot with the FZ-50, but I have shot with its almost-identical smaller (and ringless) sibling, the FZ-8. It's great.
One problem, though: if you don't have a relatively recent version of Photoshop or some similar software, the RAW is unusable on the Panasonics (unusable because the software they package to work with it is the shittiest photo software I've ever seen; you need third-party software) and the JPEGs that come out of the S3IS do look better than the JPEGs that come out of FZ-8, at least. The FZ-50 does have more megapixels, though, so I can't directly compare the FZ-50 to the S3IS.
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