First featured on Fujifilm’s high-end compact, the FinePix F60fd, the FinePix Z33WP is fitted with Scene Recognition AUTO. This graph shows the noise levels of the images we captured in our tests compared with other cameras. Here is a brief look at the main features of the Casio EX-Z33 and Fujifilm J30 before getting into our more detailed comparison.

The small size and capacity of the NP-45 battery means that you will need to take the charger with you on trips longer than a day or two, and you can't use any other types of battery or power sources. The camera is good for anyone taking vacation pictures, friends and family pictures, and memory pictures. Picture Stabilisation uses high sensitivity (up to 1600 ISO) to help reduce camera shake, freeze subject movement and improve low-light background detail to deliver virtually blur free images. Color: The Fujifilm FinePix Z33WP pushes strong reds quite a bit, and also oversaturates strong blues and oranges a little.megapixel images while the Fuji shoots 10 megapixel ones, the Canon has better optics, a bigger sensor and is just an overall better camera. The Fujifilm Z33WP has a Trimming for blog option, which is appropriate due to the low image quality. Size and weight are big decision factors when you are trying to find the ideal camera for your needs. It's all about the layout of light-collecting diodes inside this 12-megapixel point-and-shoot, which can be re-tasked for different lighting conditions. You cannot use the zoom controls while recording, but you can zoom in before you start recording a video.

The W80 is also a tougher camera: Pentax claims that it can go down to 16 feet underwater, be dropped from 3.It's the smallest camera in this roundup, and I'd say it has the best engineered body of the bunch, at least from a marketing standpoint.

Fujifilm’s is the least expensive to date, and although it doesn’t make any claims for being shockproof, as many of its competitors do, the curvy plastic shell seems robust. The corners of photos were fairly blurry in wide-angle shots and the centre wasn’t razor-sharp, but detail levels were the right side of acceptable. Movies are saved in AVI format using QuickTime Motion JPEG compression, and are captured using a dedicated Movie record button which is separate from that used to trigger still image capture.Casio Exilim EX-Z33 is a Small Sensor Compact class camera and Fujifilm FinePix J30 is a Ultracompact class camera. We found that the Z33WP did a reasonable job of capturing colors; most were reasonably accurate, although they were all somewhat oversaturated, and there was no way to lower this saturation. The Fujifilm XF 23mm F2 R WR delivers a 35mm full-frame equivalent field of view and stands out due to its small size and weather-resistant build. On the back of the Fujifilm Z33WP, the rubber-covered button matrix is more beautiful than functional, casting off the standard four-way navigation cluster, forcing the four arrows into its ten-button, two-row matrix.

The files that the Z33WP captures are saved as AVI files that use Motion JPEG compression, with mono sound.It’s waterproof down to three metres, and suitable for snorkelling as well as general beach use, skiing and wet weather. We found these to be reasonably sharp in the center of the image frame, but at the edges the images were rather soft, with fine details not being captured.