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Point-and-shoots: they may be good, but there's room for improvement.(digital cameras)(Product/service evaluation)

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| July 01, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Virtually all digital cameras shoot decent pictures under most conditions, our latest tests confirm. But more than 10 years into the digital-camera revolution, those tests also reveal that few models do what we took for granted from inexpensive 35mm film cameras: shoot immediately after you press the shutter and produce images in low light, without a tripod or flash, that are good enough to enlarge.

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Our latest Ratings show it is possible to produce affordable point-and-shoot cameras with those kinds of capabilities. For example, six tested cameras were very good for first-shot delay, meaning they could ...

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