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Rick Rizner
If Casio's $350 Exilim EX-S100 were better at its primary function--taking great digital photos--we'd be huge fans. It's extremely compact, beautifully designed, and easy to use. But in our formal image-quality tests, it earned an overall score that ranked among the lowest we've recorded recently. The EX-S100 is fine for quick and simple snapshots, but not the best choice for avid photographers seeking a small, pocketable camera.
For the most part, the EX-S100's color and exposure accuracy were acceptable: Our outdoor scene and our mannequin-model flash shot looked close to real life, though our daylight-balanced, flood-lit still-life shot had a grayish cast. A very noticeable amount of noise marred most of the images, too. A flash shot of our mannequin, for example, showed obvious and detracting speckling in the solid- gray background and in the model's dark purple blouse. Judging from the EXIF data of the shots, the camera's automatic ISO seemed to have picked higher...