That is a very nice camera.
Good points are :-
Uses AA batteries............readily available, and you can use rechargeables ( don't know how long they will last)
Good range of ISO rating, with a low of 64ISO............lovely, noise free.
Close up, macro facility of 2 cms, not bad for a zoom and great for flowers etc.
Image stabilisation is the proper type, where the censor wobbles in tune with the hand wobble.
Fujinon lens................lovely ( again, though, expect a bit of distortion........it is a zoom after all )
Takes xd cards, anywhere from 16mbs to 2gbs ( an lot of 8 mpx jpegs on a 2 gb card)
Good rangefinder style through the lens viewfinder.
Good big rear screen with histogram for quick check on your exposures.
Although there are built in shooting "modes", there is manual override of everything available.
Although the zoom is slightly shorter than the Panasonic, it starts slightly wider, 27mm as opposed to 35mm which is nice for landscapes, and the long end goes to about 480mm, which is not far off the Panasonic.
Not so good points.
Possible issue with battery life.
Nothing else.
In the good old days of film, if you put a roll of Fuji Velvia into a Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Fuji or whatever camera, and took shots with these different cameras in the same light, same scene etc, you got the same colour rendition on all the snaps..............the colour rendering was done by the film, not by the camera.
It is different with digicams where the colouring rendering engines built into the various marques vary slightly.
Each brand will display colours slightly differently.
Look at a pic from a Nikon and then the same one from a Canon..............both will look superb, but put them side by side and you will spot little differences of tone and colour rendition.
Nikons, and the Panasonic that you were looking at earlier, tend to be a tad "cool" whilst Canon and this Fuji will appear a little "warm".
This is not a problem foe me, as whatever camera I use, I import straight into Photoshop which is set up to convert any and all pics into my preferred colour space automatically, but if you do have have such a program or want to print via PicBridge, it may be worth considering this point.
You would not be disappointed by the images from either of these cameras, but that tiny little difference will be there..............but if you are not going to compare one with the other as closely as I might, it is not really an issue.