Alone among the cameras reviewed here, the Fujifilm has an all-metal case, and one designed by FA Porsche, no less. Adhering to Fujifilm's favoured vertical design, the camera takes a bit of getting used to, but is certainly compact. On the front is a metal lens cover, which flicks out of the way at switch-on to reveal a 3x optical zoom lens, to which Fujifilm has added a 4.4x digital zoom, giving 13.2x in total.

A flash head pops up from the top of the camera at the press of a button on the back and the rest of the controls are dotted around the back panel. The power buttons sits at the centre of a rotary record/playback switch, while a knurled wheel at the top selects record mode. The camera can record short sections of video, complete with sound, as well as stills.

In addition to the customary colour LCD monitor, there's a circular LCD status display, whose backlight turns red for record and green for playback. It also displays panic-reducing little 'Hello' and 'See you!' messages when you turn the camera on and off. Control is via on-screen menus, with the status panel offering help.

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Images were generally sharp and well-coloured, though the auto-focus didn't work well with objects at different distances within its range. Transferring images to your PC from the camera's 16MB SmartMedia card is easy, thanks to the supplied camera cradle. All in all, this is a quality digital camera, with its large, 3.3Mpixel CCD producing finely detailed images.