Casio EXILIM EX-FH20

The next mode is your standard still shot mode. You have a host of manual modes within this mode, including full Manual, Shutter priority and Aperture priority. Apart from this you have the Auto and Best Shot modes. Best shot mode includes all the basic scene modes you'd want, along with an extremely useful "High-speed Low Light" mode, which allows you to take multiple low light shots consecutively, and helps you yield blur-free low light shots without a tripod!

In addition to this, there's the camera's HD video (1280x720) recording modes, including high speed and standard video. The high speed video recording lets you take slow motion video of up to 1000 FPS. This does reduce the quality of the video tremendously though, making it more of a fad than anything else. At slightly lower FPS though, the camera's video recorder yielded really good results.

Image quality was decent, but not the best; color reproduction was good and auto-white balance was spot-on. The camera's ISO sensitivity was also average for a superzoom, with shots above ISO 200 losing detail a bit, and getting high on artifacts.

The camera's night mode (and I don't mean the High-speed Low Light mode, which is awesome) was just about ok, and reproduced pictures that were average on details but high on artifacts. There was a little color bleed in some areas too, so those who really wish for great night shots might want to dabble with the camera's manual features more and use that to get the best results (or use the high-speed low light mode, alternately).

The camera features 20x optical zoom, which is big number, but you cannot take great shots at full zoom without a tripod, since the EX-FH20's image stabilization isn't the best. On the other hand, the camera's macro performance was pretty impressive and its lens could focus on objects as close as 1.5-inches.