“The FZ200 is no more premium than the SX50, P510 or Sony HX200/300”
Have You used them all?
I personally owned FZ200 and have chance to actually use Sony HX200 and Nikon P520 for longer time, co I will not speak here about Canon, as I did not used it.
FZ200 is great camera, all the options, manual controls, RAW images, 1080@60p (not i) 720p@120p, three definable FN buttons, ISO button, fast and accurate autofocus system, the FOCUS button (with semi manual focus), WHITE BALANCE button and on and on.
I have also had Nikon D5200 for short period of time and using D5200 was a disaster comparing to the FZ200, its just probably at D7100 level (haven’t used that one). I also own Sony Alpha a57 as I got rid of Nikon D5200 and Sony Alpha a57 is up to the task to be as usable as camera as FZ200 is.
The only downside of FZ200 (as compared to DSLR/DSLT/M43) is lack of shalow depth of field (workaround with higher focal lengths) and a lot of noise at high ISO.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.