This Casio Exilim EX-S100, cute little $250 (as of May 2005) Casio credit-card style camera is the best thought out, fastest and easiest to use compact digital camera with more salient features critical to serious photography than any other compact digital camera I’ve ever used.
Unlike the big brands more familiar to us photographers, it seems Casio actually had someone who knew about photography design the camera. It amazes me with its fast and fluid operation so critical for serious photography. Contrast this with Nikon point-and-shoots on which I can’t sometimes find even the most basic controls. This Casio is so well thought out and works so well it now makes me much less tolerant of the sloppy menus and operation of other brands of cameras. Too bad Casio makes no DSLRs.