Sony's groundbreaking RX10 won our award for the [http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/12/11/cameras-of-the-year-2013-best-pocket-ilc-bridge-travel-zoom-cameras#best-enth-zoom](best enthusiast zoom of 2013). It's lightning fast performance, bright, f/2.8 lens, 24mm to 200mm zoom range and solid video performance led us to conclude that it "offered something truly unique." While the RX10 still stands alone in some respects, we can no longer call it truly unique, thanks to Panasonic's tremendous FZ1000, a worthy adversary where none existed before. This is probably the toughest matchup that we've yet judged, but we were able to condense our findings to one winner (for most photographers).
First things first: it should be noted that while these two cameras are each others' nearest competitors, they differ in several key ways. The first is the lens. The FZ1000 gives doubles the max telephoto of the RX10, while ke