Cheers for providing the link. I quite liked the test shots on this camera from the review. You can see the outdoor shots were under exposed but I would expect a little tweaking in a free image editing suite from download.com would probably resolve the outdoor shots. Thats if you have the time.
Reviews on dpreview.com are not good. They are only from 2 consumers, there are no editors reviews/tests but in all I think that this camera is a 50/50. If the size is acceptable to you then this is an OK point and shoot.
I wouldn't be wowed by the number of megapixels and to be honest this is irrelavent if you are taking snaps to have them printed in normal sizes anyway. The megapixel thing only becomes relevant when you are doing some serious cropping or making large prints.
Lack of a viewfinder is a problem for me because the LCDs do have a tendency to drop the battery life which is clearly an issue here and also I prefer using a viewfinder especially in bright conditions.
With regard to the ongoing battery debate, if you are looking to buy a camera and you are concerned over bespoke battery or AA's? I wouldn;t lose sleep over it. If you are taking a camera like this out for the day, the likelihood is you are not David Bailey and you will not need to take 200-300 shots. If you get through 100 I would say you will likely have a lot of battery life left still (unless you are using a lot of flash of course) with this camera. As such either AAs or a camera manufacturers own battery will suffice for a day's shooting without need for recahrge. If you have to replace a battery or get new ones for your camera then again either solution is no big issue. Replacement batteries for most cameras can be had on ebay (they will be copies at this price) for around a tenner (thats the camera specific batteries) and a pack of four AA rechargeables and a charger seldom costs more than a tenner either.
Like I said this is a 50/50 camera for me. Good value for money but up against plenty of competition.
