Fujifilm Finepix S7000
Casio Exilim Z75
Fujifilm FinePix Z70
Casio The Casio is 3 years old and sells for less than $125.
Sony The Sony was released in 2010 and sold in December 2010 for about $300.
Finepix s7000 The Finepix s7000 is a bridge camera and sold for about $500 in 2004. The very interesting information here is that pocket $100 cameras equal the performance of a more expensive bridge camera of just a few years ago.
Finepix Z70 The Finepix Z70 is about $100 and is a compact camera like the Sony and the Casio.
Canon EOS Rebel T3i The Canon EOS Rebel T3i is an APS-C DSLR with 18 megapixels and was tested with a kit 18-55mm IS (image stabilized) lens. The kit cost is around $700 in 2011. You can see that the low light performance of the larger lens and the larger sensor is extraordinary.
I did not adjust the cameras to have the same exposure or to have the same ISO setting. I put the cameras in the automatic modes that people would really use. I did not test flash or brightly lit scenes, because the cameras have very similar performance. So the following shots are handheld in difficult lighting situations. The cameras did what ever they do to take the pictures. It is not possible to judge how much is sensor performance or how much is the on-board camera processing or how much is due to optical image stabilization. If you are really curious, all of the EXIF settings are intact in the images.
Fujifilm Finepix S7000 |
Casio Exilim Z75 |
Fujifilm FinePix Z70 |
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Comparison of shooting handheld indoors without a flash - daylight coming in window
Comparison of shooting handheld indoors without a flash - incandescent light
Comparison of shooting handheld indoors without a flash - fluorescent light
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Comparison of shooting handheld indoors without a flash - daylight coming in window |
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Very low light level performance - hand held
Fujifilm Finepix z70 |
No lights, shades drawn
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 Canon EOS REBEL T3i |
No lights, shades drawn
Advantages of ISO-3200 and stabilized lens clearly visible
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 Fujifilm Finepix z70 The blurring and noise are due to small sensor size and lack of image stabilized lens. |
 Canon EOS REBEL T3i Note that this is ISO 3200 (much higher than any pocket camera can go) and with a shutter speed of 1/13 second (much slower than any camera can be handheld without image stabilization.) |
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Comparison of shooting handheld indoors without a flash - incandescent lights |
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Very low light level performance - hand held
Fujifilm Finepix z70 |
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incandescent lights
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 Canon EOS REBEL T3i |
Incandescent lights
Advantages of ISO-3200 and stabilized lens clearly visible
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 Fujifilm Finepix z70 The blurring and noise are due to small sensor size and lack of image stabilized lens. |
 Canon EOS REBEL T3i Note that this is ISO 3200 (much higher than any pocket camera can go) and with a shutter speed of 1/13 second (much slower than any camer can be handheld without image stabilization.) |
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Comparison of shooting handheld indoors without a flash - fluorescent light |
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| Very Modest Lighting - a closet with a fluorescent light
Casio Exilim Z75 |
Fluorescent but somewhat dim Lighting
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 Sony DSC-TX7 (with multiple frame averaging "twilight mode") |
Handheld twilight mode
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 Finepix Z70 |
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 Canon EOS Rebel T3i |
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Casio Exilim Z75 |
 FujiFilm FinePix Z70 |
 Sony DSC-TX7 Frame averaging twilight mode ISO 400 1/10 sec |
 Canon EOS Rebel T3i ISO 3200, 1/50 sec |
Automatic Built-in Flash Mode
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Flash mode
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| Sony DSC-TX7
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Flash mode
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| FujiFilm Fine Pix Z70
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Casio Exilim Z75 from camera, with a little Photoshop |
Sony DSC-TX7 |
FinePix S7000 |
 FinePix Z70 |
 Finepix s7000 Resolution - about 1300 lines in this test (2.5MP) |
 Finepix Z70 Resolution - about 1400 lines close to 3MP |
 Exilim z75 resolution about 1000 lines - about 1.3 MP |
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Program mode,cloudy day
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Program mode,cloudy day
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 FinePix Z70 |
Note: Sunny Day, Program Mode
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 Canon EOS Rebel T3i |
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Casio Exilim z75 |
Sony DSC-TX7 |
FujiFilm S7000 |
 Finepix z70 |
 Canon EOS REBEL T3i |
