When my sister visited me from Germany over the holidays, she was using a Casio Exilim.  The pictures that she took were great!  I went to Circuit City to check one out, and they told me that a new one just came out with a higher zoom.  Has anyone checked it out yet?

I got a hold of one of these as a product sample a while back.. I don't quite remember the build but it was around summertime.

The postives: Large, bright LCD screen; decent battery life (compared to my similar Sony Cybershot); slick design; solid indoor photo quality.

The negatives: Poor outdoor photo quality; no burst mode; not so many manual features.

Here's a pic I took with it while on vacation in Barcelona:



You can see that it does what a lot of digicams do, that chaps my hide; it's acting like a little robot that can't distinguish between far and near, big and small, and so glosses it over with some sort of smoothing algorithm.. in the end causing a subtle, unnatural defocus...

I know you were not happy with the results, but that is still a great picture! I had never seen anything ever like thoe buildings!