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'pictures at the maximum ISO 1,600 look very grainy, almost as if you had applied an impressionist art filter in an image-editing program'

'Some softness due to noise.'

'Images shot at ISO 1600 looked noisy.'

'the images were a little on the dark side and a little soft in some areas'

'Unfortunately, this camera's motion-picture features are particularly anemic: there's no microphone for recording audio, and resolution is limited to 320x240 pixels at 10fps or 30fps'

'flash coverage wasn't great, with significant edge falloff'

'The Olympus D-590Z has an average bundle.'

'Not surprisingly, there is plenty of redeye on this compact camera.'

'not the size and heft--of a typical advanced model.'

'speaking of the AF-assist lamp, when lighting is poor, this reddish lamp helps the camera focus --'

'Weak flash.'

'it can't save raw or uncompressed TIFF files, only JPEGs.'

'The S400's rechargeable lithium ion battery did not last long in our tests, holding out for only 214 shots, or about 1.25 hours.'

'The 1.5-inch LCD viewfinder is sharp, bright, and responsive, but the optical viewfinder has no focusable diopter (a dial to correct the viewfinder for astigmatism, near- or farsightedness, and so on).'

'The overly complicated Select dial'

'The only negative points in operation were that subjects often complained about the rather blinding beam used by Canon's auto-focusing mechanism.'

'Once you're ready to see images on your computer, downloading may take a while, since the D100 offers USB connectivity only.'

'Small optical viewfinder'

'obsolete d-TTL flash control system'