Hi Steve I have a Lumix DMC FZ18 which also has a x14 optical zoom, and like you I can use maximum 8 pixies.

I asked because I'd love to be able to get 'closer-ups' of the tits and finches. The red squirrels are bolder, or at least some of them so I can get 'up close and personal'.

The yellow gladioli shows how carp digital zoom can be. BOP won't stay perched in the tree, until the fire brigade send me up on one of their ladders.