The traditional 'reciprocal rule' suggests that you should aim to use a shutter speed equal to the reciprocal of the focal length to ensure sharp shooting - so a 100mm lens should really be used with shutter speeds faster than 1/100th of a second. The reciprocal rule is only a guide, of course, and one that becomes increasingly inaccurate with small-sensor cameras, but it should still be apparent that without image stabilization it'd be difficult to use a 100mm equivalent lens in light that would require 1/100 shutter speed. Red-eye removal ON : Red-eye Reduction Auto, Red-eye Reduction & Forced Flash, Suppressed Flash, Red-eye Reduction & Slow Synchro. The Canon did the best job of balancing ambient light and flash to produce a pleasing result that almost looks like flash wasn't used. The Pentax cameras and Fuji weren't far behind, with results that, while obviously flashed, still retain some of the ambient atmosphere of the scene. The Two Olympus cameras and the TS1 retained the least amount of ambient light, due to them using lower ISO settings than other cameras in the group. Both the Olympus cameras also produced the coolest (most blue) result in terms of color balance, followed by the TS1, with the Z33 and W60 sitting somewhere in the middle, then the W80 (which produced a warmer result than the W60), and the D10 producing the warmest result of the group. Flash shot 100% crops: Canon D10 A camera, to me, was something I used to take fishing with me. However, I’m so impressed with the Fujifilm Z33 WP that I take it almost everywhere with me now. It’s so small that you hardly notice it, but the photographs it takes belie its compact size. Preset (Fine, Shade, Fluorescent light (Daylight), Fluorescent light (Warm White), Fluorescent light (Cool White), Incandescent light

February 17, 2009 - If you’re an adrenaline junkie and you want a camera that’s as brave as you, then look no further than Fujifilm's ultra-stylish and equally adventurous FinePix Z33WP waterproof compact camera.

Most of these cameras perform quite well in terms of chromatic aberration (a property of the lens design that produces colored fringes on high-contrast edges), no doubt helped by their relatively modest zoom ranges. Fringing will always be most pronounced towards the edge of the frame, particularly with the lenses at their widest-angle settings and if you look closely it's there in most of the images, but it is certainly acceptable given that these are all compact cameras. Telephoto (long end of zoom) Designed for those who love the great outdoors, the 10MP FinePix Z33WP is a camera that can withstand the elements. So whether you’re surfing the waves, cycling through alpine forests or swooshing down the ski slopes, the FinePix Z33WP won’t let you down.

The Tough 6000 offers movie recording at VGA resolution (640x480) at 30 fps. Movies are recorded in avi format, with a maximum bit rate of 13 Mbit/sec. If you have a fast xD card (H type) you can record movies until the card is full, but on slower xD cards videos are limited to a paltry 10 seconds. Usefully the Tough 6000 counts down instead of up, to show you how much recording time is left on the current card. Optical zoom is not available during movie recording. Towards the edge of the frame the TS1 performance remains better than the D10 due to the less aggressive noise reduction used. You can clearly see more fine detail on the front of the Martini bottle (along with more noise). Though worse than that TS1, with the Canon D10 you can at least still get a basic idea what it's supposed to be a picture of (even if all texture, contrast and fine detail has gone). The other cameras offer varying combinations of noise, artefacts and blurred detail - in other words just what you'd expect from a high resolution compact viewed at a pixel level.The D10 has two modes of IS ('continuous' and 'shoot only'). In testing we found that both gave the same result, and so we have graphed the 'shoot only' result.