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This solid, easily pocketable camera manages to fit a in a ton of features that we like, including Casio's usual great (if crowed, due to the many features) menus, a 2.5 inch LCD that's reasonably bright and sharp, if not the best among the ultracompacts we've seen, an exceptionally long lasting lithium ion battery (it's said to get about 10% better battery life than even the that of the Z40, which we applauded), a real-time histogram, and many, many scene modes, including some very cool ones like coupling, which lets you take a picture of the same scene twice with two different people in the shot and then combine the images (handy for taking a shot of yourself and a friend if there's no one else around to shoot for you). We also like the pan focus mode, which lets you take a reasonably well focused shot even when there isn't time to push the shutter button halfway down and wait for the autofocus. Fortunately you don't need this very often since shutter lag was reasonable even when we didn't pre-focus.