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Rick Rizner
About the size and weight of a deck of cards, Casio's little silver Exilim EX-Z40 offers style, scene modes, and great battery life. It weighs just 5.5 ounces and measures 3.4 by 0.9 by 2.2 inches, so it's compact enough to fit into all but the smallest pockets.
However, any attraction we felt for this camera was undone by its ho-hum image quality: Of the 14 cameras in our test batch, the EX- Z40 ranked near the bottom in color, exposure, sharpness, and image distortion. Our outdoor shot had good tonal range but also a strong blue cast. Meanwhile, the flash shot of our mannequin showed good color accuracy but lacked the vibrancy of competing cameras, and we saw noticeable artifacting in the solid...