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Review summary: The Casio EX-Z1000 is a remarkable-looking little camera that proves Casio can create stylish and pocketable digital cameras with the best of them. The headline-grabbing feature is surely the 10.1-meg...

Pros: Good design and build, compact and easy to use, anti-shake mode with high sensitivity setting, 37 automated "BEST SHOT" (scene) modes.

Cons: Flash underpowered, noisy images in shadows and over ISO 200, purple fringing, detail loss due to noise suppression, marked barrel distortion at wide end of zoom.

Verdict: Casio try to hard to pack its latest compact

Review summary: Is 10 megapixels too much for a compact?

Pros: Good design and build, compact and easy to use, anti-shake mode with high sensitivity setting, 37 automated "BEST SHOT" (scene) modes.

Cons: Flash underpowered, noisy images in shadows and over ISO 200, purple fringing, detail loss due to noise suppression, marked barrel distortion at wide end of zoom.

Verdict: Casio try to hard to pack its latest compact

Review summary: Casio's 10-megapixel shooter sports a huge display and lots of useful features.

Pros: • Large, bright LCD • Tons of scene modes • Very good photos

Cons: • Needs a docking cradle to charge • Mediocre zoom • No memory card included

Review summary: Casio's parade of metal-clad, ultra-compact snapshot cameras in the Exilim line has culminated in the Exilim EX-Z1000, a 10.1-megapixel mite of a camera. It has a higher pixel count than many professional cameras, but no manual exposure modes and a ...

Pros: - Durable metal body - Widescreen LCD - Very compact - Fast burst mode with flash - Ability to save 999 custom modes

Cons: - Poor image quality - Lack of manual modes - Poor seals against dust and dirt - 8 MB of internal memory is too small to be useful

Verdict: The EX-Z1000 is not the leading camera its specs suggest it might be. It demonstrates why other manufactures haven't made 10-megapixel ultra-compact cameras: 1) they can't get good image quality out of such small sensors; 2) snapshooters don't need ...