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'awkward manual focus'

'colors are very saturated - to the point that they just don't look natural anymore and contrast starts to get lost.'

'Average battery life.'

'As with many touch systems, the L74's screen can be sluggish, inaccurate and unresponsive.'

'The L74 Wide has 12 scene modes, but not nearly as deep a stock of pre-sets as we've seen on many other compacts.'

'navigating with the L74 Wide's screen feels awkward and unresponsive'

'The Samsung's electronics don't do justice to its high resolution either, scattering jagged edges, colour casts and exposure problems through your images.'

'Certain outdoors shots were accompanied with massive bars of blue or purple, millimetres in width.'

'Though it uses a lens made by Schneider Optics, which makes some of the world's best magnifying loupes and enlarger lenses, the V700's pictures lack uniform sharpness and are plagued by distracting light artifacts such as fringing and blooming, as well as geometric distortion, which makes straight lines look curved despite its relatively narrow angle of view.'

'This is a huge flaw—we took five controlled test shots in auto mode with the second unit, and all five had radically different exposures; one image was properly exposed, but the other four became progressively darker.'