Casio Exilim EX-S600

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Performance
The capacity of the EX-S600's Lithium-ion battery should please most users. During our tests, we shot over 100 pictures, alternating with flash and zoom, without seeing a dip in the battery level indicator.

The S600 powered up and took its first shot at slightly under 2 seconds. Shutting down the unit was a little faster at 1.5 seconds. You can shoot thereafter at 1.6-second intervals without flash and every 3 seconds with flash forced on.

At the camera's highest resolution of 6 megapixels (2,816 x 2,112) in Fine quality, you can shoot continuously while holding down the shutter button, chalking up about 38 frames per minute (0.63fps). We noticed the EX-S600 operated at a more reasonable speed of 1.08fps when we dropped to shooting at 2 megapixels (1,600 x 1,200).

The built-in flash on the EX-S600 reached just about 1.5m when the unit was at its maximum telephoto (3x optical zoom) setting.

If you just wanted to review pictures, holding down the playback button for 2 seconds would activate the camera without actually prepping the unit to take photos.

Image Quality
Our test pictures generally turned out all right though we felt colors were somewhat muted at its default setting. We had the option of increasing the saturation/contrast levels either by one or two notches or post-correct it on a photo-editing software like Photoshop.

The camera tended to blow out highlights especially in the whites, resulting in loss of details. We also felt the built-in flash was rather weak in some of our shots and had to increase the intensity levels on the camera.

Noise levels within the user-selectable options from 50 to 400 were manageable. However, at the maximum ISO 1,600 setting, our pictures were barely usable.

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