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'Noticeable shutter delay.'

'No AF illuminator'

'Some annoyances include the lousy movie mode, lack of a file numbering system, and poor low light focusing. '

'when the light's not so good, capture lag jumps to an unacceptably high 2.2 seconds'

'However, it takes quite a bit of effort to adapt to the S700's design, which ranges from simply odd in places--you increase shutter speed and aperture with the down arrow and decrease them via the up arrow--to downright frustrating in others.'

'Bad manual focus'

'a better focus system could have been designed.'

'The controls, menus, and buttons can be confusing and counterintuitive'

'auto white balance is bad with tungsten lighting'

'auto white balance is bad with tungsten lighting.'

'has a small hesitancy when focussing at the long end of its zoom reach in low contrast light.'

'Its feature set is solid, but not exceptional.'

'The H5 is definitely outclassed by the competition in the continuous shooting department: the Canon PowerShot S3 and Panasonic FZ7/FZ30 can shoot infinitely (with a high speed SD card) at over 2 frames/second.'

'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.'

'it sometimes failed to focus quickly enough'

'no practical shutter lag'