'The grip-less camera feels surprisingly good in the hand, thanks to thoughtful ideas like a small but well placed thumb rest on the rear panel.'
'carry-anywhere all-purpose camera'
'The best part about the Olympus XZ-1 was the fact that its image quality backed its hardware, and the camera proved itself a well-equipped tool that excelled when it came to manual controls.'
'The raised zoom rocker on the back of the camera is easy to use and the ridged mode dial clicks through its options with a satisfying level of resistance.'
'Pictures look soft, needs a manual setting, no image stabilisation.'
'The standard range of metering controls (multi-area, center-weighted, spot) are available for more involved metering tasks, but the Cyber-shot was accurate enough in this regard that I rarely felt the need to step outside of the default multi-area setting'
'battery life is low, but it's uncomfortably small for frequent use.'
'The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W150 couples a 8.1 megapixel sensor to a Zeiss-branded 5x optical zoom and a generous 2.7" LCD display'
'I was able to capture 10 full resolution (8M) images in 4.2 seconds, about
2.3fps, which soared by Sony's claim of 1.6fps.'
'The 10-megapixel Kodak EasyShare Z1085 IS is deceptively good.'
'you've got a product that has the potential, at least, to go toe-to-toe with the heavyweight contenders in the enthusiast compact arena'
'Focusing times were generally good, except in low light, where the Z1085 struggled considerably (it really needs an AF-assist lamp).'
'The Z1085 IS determines exposures with a multi-pattern, center-weighted, or center spot TTL metering system, and offers 2.0EV of exposure compensation in 1/3EV increments.'