I Purchased this camera for £199-99 in the January sales (half-price) but I notice that you can still buy this product at a similar price if you look around.

It's an excellent camera. All a non-professional usually wants is speed and good picture quality and this camera delivers on both those things. The camera comes in an attractive silver/aluminium stle finish. It is quite solid and comfortable to hold - without being too bulky and heavy - and doesn't suffer from the awkward style "bulges" you can sometimes find with cameras of a similar price.

It has a reasonably good 2" TFT colour screen.

it is lightning quick to start up and the menu options aren't too difficult to use. one of the most fun things about this camera is that it has 23 different camera set-ups to play with. These include things like "Night Scene" (which is quite lovely and cancapture a city scene for example really well). The Macro focus can only go down to 10cm which is a little restrictive.

The camera is capable of some very good quality shots and the size ranges from 640x480 pixels to 2816x2112. movies are recorded without sound at 320x240..and last as long as the memory allows in your card.

Other features include: 3-type self-timer, continuous shutter mode, slideshow, trimming/copying/resizing, alarm, world time and calendar. There is also a histogram available to display technical information about the image (either in Record or Play mode).

There is enough diversity to "tweak" images and so please the more demanding photographer.

But all in all this camera is made for the non-professional who just wants to obtain neat and fast pictures. For this price, it's hard to think of a better camera on the market.

Picture Quality: Excellent
Range & Quality of Features: Very Good
Ease of Use: Excellent
Overall Look & Design: Good
Value for Money: Excellent

Advantages: Picture Quality and ease of use
Disadvantages: No audio on movie mode,

Recommend to potential buyers: yes

Specifications:

Image Sensor Type: CCD
Resolution: 6.37 Megapixels
Optical Zoom: 3x
Camera Type: Standard Point and Shoot

Interchangeable Lens: Without Interchangeable Lens
Optical Zoom: 3x
35mm Zoom Lens: 39 - 117 mm
Digital Zoom: 4x
Focus Type: Autofocus and Manual Focus
Macro Focus Range: 3.94 - 27.56 in. (w)
Focal Length: 8 - 24 mm

Image Resolutions: 640x480, 2816 x 2112, 2816 x 1872, 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960
Video Resolutions; 320 x 240 (QVGA)
Video Speed: 15fps
Max Movie Length: Depends on the camera free memory size
Video Format: AVI

ISO Speeds: Auto, 125, 250, 500, 64
Aperture Range: f4.8/f8.4 (w/t) - f2.8/f4.9 (w/t)
Shutter Speed: 4-1/2000 sec
White Balance: Auto, Manual

Memory type: Built-in, MMC Card, SD Card
Built In Memory Size: 9.7 MB
Compression Modes: Fine, Normal, Basic
Compression Type: JPEG
File Size (High Res.): 2.9 MB (44 images on 128MB card)
File Size (Low Res.): .09MB 91422 images on 128MB card)

Flash Type: Built-In
Flash Functions: flash Off, Auto Flash, fill-in Flash, Red-eye reduction flash

Viewfinder: Optical
LCD panel: With LCD Panel
LCD Panel Size: 2 in
LCD Screen Resolution: 84,960 pixels
LCD Protected Position: Without LCd protected Position

Interface: USB

Battery Type: 2 x AA Batteries
Battery Life: 280 Images

Self-Timer: 2 sec, 10 sec
MP3 Built-in: No

Width: 3.48 in
Depth: 1.31 in
Height: 2.38 in
Weight: 0.37 lb

Included Accessories: Software, USB Cable, 2 x AA Recharhable Batteries, Battery charger, Strap
Release Date: October 2004