FinePix HS50EXR vs. FUJIFILM X-S1 vs. Panasonic Lumix FZ200

Well, ON PAPER and ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN, everything from Fujifilm looks like a world-class contender. The reality starts to seep in. 

For MANUAL ZOOMING, the X-S1 and the HS50 EXR should be equally good, once they have production copies of the HS50 released, someone having both can do us a nice product comparo between them. So far, the copy that the Fujiguys struggled with in their online demo video clip does not generate a whole lot of confidence for the HS50's quality.

If you like zooming WHILE YOU ARE RECORDING A VIDEO CLIP (like I love to do), you imply cannot seriously consider a servo zoom only camera, like the Panasonic Lumix FZ200. But even for still pix.... whereas you can manually whip-zoom from UWA to the tele end in 1/5th of a second or less with a manual zoom ring lens, it will take quite a bit longer to cover the full range with a servo zoom.