[1] It succeeded the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000, however the FZ1000 II was released in March, 2019 also.

Its main competing model is the Sony RX10 III.

The FZ2500 offers several improvements over its predecessor, including a touch screen, headphone jack, Cinema 4K (24 fps only), a longer zoom, internal ND filters, unlimited 4K Recording, 4K image stabilization, a side loaded SD Card slot, and a Pull Focus function.

In their review of the FZ2500, DPReview wrote, "The Panasonic DMC-FZ2500/FZ2000 is a well-designed, full-featured enthusiast bridge camera that's hard to ignore.

While it's clearly targeted toward video shooting, at which it's excellent, it is also a very good (but not best-in-class) stills camera.