The zoom lens is great for getting close to the action and the wide angle setting is a bonus. But, set against this, we found the AF system to be somewhat sluggish, especially at the longer focal length, where it takes time to settle down and still occasionally produced out-of-focus shots.

The same went when using the super macro mode, which lets you shoot up to 1cm away from the subject – we found it often struggled to focus. Yes, you can manually set the focus, but we think many potential customers will wish use the AF mode most.

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The super macro mode worked quite well, but we've seen better results with compacts

There are lots of scene modes to select - including Night, which gave us some impressive results

It offers various continuous shooting modes, including Top 50, which shoots up to 50 frames at 7f/s in 3Mp resolution

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