The Casio Exilim EX-FH20 megazoom digital camera

The Casio Exilim EX-FH20 megazoom digital camera looks and feels like a small, entry-level SLR, with its oversize 20X-optical-zoom lens, pop-up fill flash, and big, beefy right-handed grip. But the camera is as easy to use as a point-and-shoot--and a lot more versatile, thanks to its high-speed shooting modes. It's a follow-up to last year's innovative Casio Exilim EX-F1, and a big sibling to the pocketable, high-speed Casio Exilim EX-FC100.
The mode dial has only five settings: Flash CS (consecutive shots with flash), High-Speed CS (according to Casio, this mode will continue to shoot as long as you press the shutter button), Single Shot, HS for high-speed movies, and HD/STD for normal-speed movies at 1280-by-720-pixel or 640-by-480-pixel resolution, both at 30 frames per second.
When the camera is in any of the still-photo modes, you can press the BS (Best Shot) button on the back of the camera and select any of 18 presets, including standards such as Portrait, Sports, and High Speed Night Scene. A few of the preset modes--such as Multi-motion Image (which lets you shoot multiple images of a scene that the camera then combines into a single image) or Digital Panning (which combines multiple images into one picture where the subject is in focus and the background is motion-blurred)--let you have a little fun.
You can also set the camera for aperture priority, shutter-speed priority, manual, or automatic. The ISO range is from 100 to 1600, and you can adjust the white balance and image brightness, as well. You can easily navigate all of the controls by pressing the directional button and the Set button on the back of the camera with your right thumb. The Menu button on the back lets you access other camera settings.
The Exilim EX-FH20's 3-inch color LCD looks nice, though I did have trouble seeing it in very bright sunlight. In such instances you can use the camera's electronic viewfinder, a small LCD that produces flatter and fuzzier colors than the 3-inch LCD. Switching between the electronic viewfinder and the 3-inch LCD is as easy as pushing a button. When you're using the electronic viewfinder, however, you're dedicated to it--while switching presets, you have to peer through the electronic viewfinder to navigate the screens. The camera doesn't switch to the 3-inch LCD when you're adjusting the camera and then back to the electronic viewfinder when you're done and ready to shoot, which can hamper your efforts if you're trying to adjust the camera quickl