Checked this camera out pretty throughly yesterday at InterBee. I was very impressed! I'll wait a bit to buy but it puts out great images and is well balanced to handle. Good focus pull and zoom was not too shabby. Didn't get enough time with however!

Did you happen to notice if the upper left corner got darker midway through the zoom range?

I looked for that and did not see it. The image was clean.

That is good the hear!
Thanks for the info!