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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. '

'Its bulky form won't win any beauty pageants'

'small square lens'

'The digital zoom's magnified pixels looked awful in low-light situations.'

'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'

'lack of sharp focus.'

'manually enabled popup flash is fairly weak - maximum flash range (in auto ISO mode) is just short of 15 feet; not very impressive for a camera with a 10X zoom.'

'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 quality of the content itself is just average for a digital camera.'

'Starters will be less convinced and will probably look around to see what the competition has to offer.'

'Recycle time between shots is an unimpressive 3.6 seconds and nearly 4.9 seconds with flash.'

'Unfortunately, without a video out port, users will only be able to export video and still images through either the memory card or the USB port located on the right side of the camera.'

'its 1.5-inch LCD seems puny in the current market.'

'It doesn't include a recharger or rechargeable batteries'

'manual focus is basically useless, since you have no idea as to the current focus distance, and there's no "focus check" feature either.'