Please bear with me, as I am the reference standard for amateur photographers. But I am learning......slowly.
I have a question regarding the two photos attached. Completely disregard the obvious focus problems, as that's not relevant to the question.
Each photo was taken as wide as possible, using a compact long zoom camera, with identical setup for each. The photo on the left was taken with a Canon Powershot SX720HS with a Canon lens, 24-960 (4.3-172 mm) max. aperture f3.3-6.9. And the other photo was taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ80 with a Leica lens, 24-720 (4.3-129 mm) max. aperture f3.3-6.4.
I see more image information horizontally, and vertically with the photo on the right (Lumix) than I do in the photo on the left (Powershot). Why is that?

Thanks.......................Dave

I'm certainly not "fretting". I like taking scenery shots. To me, the more I can get in the shot, the better. I was simply wondering why several cameras, with the same lens specs., would create differing wide angle shots.
I appreciated the replies from those who recognized that. And who recognized that although I may be inexperienced at this, I wasn't stupid. Jerry said it in one statement, "not all 24 mms are created equal". Jack generated interest when making reference to sensor size, and crop factors. And Rab-Eye, by questioning my question, confirmed to me that he probably understood what I was driving at. Also, lens breathing, I hadn't heard about that. Something else to explore. Thank you.
I was obviously, since it is obvious that I'm new to this, looking for a simple answer. I certainly didn't need a whole lot of psycho analysis. I just wanted to have a better idea as to how my little camera worked.

I'm out.......................................Dave

Why are you fretting over this technical menusha when you claim to be a beginner. There are a lot of other facts about digital photography you need to worry about at this point or any for that matter. Minuscule mysteries of optics is not one of them. Most interest to you of those are Area (size of sensor) and Density. But you don't need to understand those to use a camera and create images. I've rarely have compared images from my many cameras in such a way. And I tend to be extremely curious to the point of a fault. I have and have had or used many cameras over the decades: 120 film Rollieflex TLR (at school), 7 different Pentax 35mm SLRs (more if you count at school), two 4x5" View Cameras (more if you count at school), 120 film 6x7cm Pentax 6x7, two vintage Kodak and Certo Rangefinder 35mm cameras, Nikon F & Nikon F2 (at work), 8x10" B&J view camera (at work), Giant 20x24 vertical copy camera with 8x10" custom reduction back (at work), my parent's Agus 620 Film Camera, my parent's 35mm Minolta Talker; and more recently, two different Kodak Digital P&S / Bridge Cameras, a Samsung tiny Digital P&S camera, Pentax K-5, Pentax K-20D, Pentax K-100D DSLRs, and I really doubt that any two of them would take the exact same image with out doing as much fiddling as a flight to the moon.

The problem and your question problem is cameras and lens are not exactly at the indicated or advertised magnification in actual use. Yes, they are focused, but scales are approximations. There has been a lot on the UHH about this in detail with many examples. It is sort of related to "Lens Breathing" with zoom lenses, but much more general and fundamental than that. It is also connected to why two similar lenses may and usually do have different limits of closest focus. For example and I have these lenses, a 50mm f/2, 50mm f/1.7, 50mm f/1.8, and 50mm f/1.4 all will give different closest focus and maximum magnification and image size. Fairly easy to demonstrate. Something similar can occur at the mid and infinity end of things but harder to demonstrate but you did by using two different non-DSLR digital cameras with similar lenses and sensors. It is all in the complex science of optics. I may get curious bout such things but I don't obsess over it and would rather use the equipment as best I can and ignore the mysterious perplexities.

P.S. and as pointed out by others, the focal lengths advertised for P&S and Bridge cameras are rather approximate, they are what that are, and slightly different in reality for your two cameras. Some of the highest end Nikon DSLR / SLR bodies and lenses may give you very close to one-to-one everything between lenses due to say IF and other technical features. And I am sure a few combinations of Pentax, Canon, and Fuji lenses and cameras will as well (noting they also have IF lenses too), but few bodies have 1:1 viewfinders (except a few Nikons as noted, as far as I know).