Samsung NV9

The camera supports up to 10.2 megapixel, and doesn't lose detail even at full resolution. Besides featuring spot-on auto-whitebalance, its color reproduction was vivid and brilliant, and the fact that the 'Exit' button doubles up as a color mode button, adds a good bit of pre-shot effects to give you that extra edge. Using this feature, you can change color modes, add preset color tints, and even manually set what color tint you wish your pictures to have, using RBG sliders (Red, Blue and Green). Besides this, you can even play around with color saturation levels before shots are clicked, giving you a good bit of stress-free artistic freedom. This feature's especially useful for those who don't have access to, or don't know how to use Photoshop or any other image editing software to add these effects post-shot.

The NV9 allows ISO settings 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 and 3200 (3200 at 3 MP). Its low light sensitivity is excellent, and it does really well right up to ISO 400.

The camera's also got one of the most brilliant night modes I've seen in a while, and night shots it produced were detailed, reproduced color accurately, and had minimum noise.

The camera's macro performance was pretty decent too, although it didn't perform too well when objects were placed closer than 1.5 - 2 inches away.

Shutter lag was minimal and start-up time was about 2 seconds from power-up to shot.