At first when we used to shoot short films we were in need of many cameras for the crew to get going simultaneously and I never used to get cameras from other brands except Canon and Nikon and then my peers suggested that Panasonic does offer good cameras and then this was the very first I bought from Panasonic .
Coming to the features of this camera its a 10.1 Mega pixel camera, which first o all is very good thing when it comes to quality of the picture and videos, the say it comes even with a metal body, but I have the plastic one, the best thing is that we can take images of different sizes and record videos of different resolutions, which is the very need of an aspiring photographer, the shutter speed this camera has a very good, it is powered by a Lithium-ion battery so the battery life is pretty good, Panasonic offers this very good camera for a very good price so its the best camera to buy for beginners.
good luck on your adventure in photography . And you are awesome.