What would you say is the best CAMERA BRAND?

I was looking o buy a camera and I was thinking of getting a Lumix, what do you recommend?
I want digital and I don’t care about the “easy to use”, I care about image quality and zoom quality.
Also, it’s not my first camera, I’ve been using Canon.

Nikon is the closest thiing to an affordable definative answer, the only thing I know better is a Hasselblad and they are way to far out there to concider for common use. Hasselblad now offers a digital camera that is like $20,000!

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 12.1 MP Digital Camera