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With a reasonably wide angled lens, the SZ8 is ideal for taking on your holiday with you.

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The overall impression of detail is good, but if you examine closely at 100%, you can see some areas of this picture suffer from image smoothing.

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Use the zoom to get closer to the action, with a 12x optical range giving you lots of flexibility.

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Colours are bright and punchy directly from the camera without displaying too much saturation.

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The camera's optical image stabilisation system helps when you are photographing a moving subject, or you are moving yourself.

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Here we can see the camera's metering system has coped pretty well with the strong backlit subject to give a pretty accurate exposure.

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Colours from the camera are strong and vibrant, without needing work on them post-capture to bring out the contrast.

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Use the camera's macro focusing mode to get nice and close to a subject and fill the frame with detail shots.

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Amy has been writing about cameras, photography and associated tech since 2009. Amy was once part of the photography testing team for Future Publishing working across TechRadar, Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, N Photo and Photography Week. For her photography, she has won awards and has been exhibited. She often partakes in unusual projects - including one intense year where she used a different camera every single day. Amy is currently the Features Editor at Amateur Photographer magazine, and in her increasingly little spare time works across a number of high-profile publications including Wired, Stuff, Digital Camera World, Expert Reviews, and just a little off-tangent, PetsRadar.

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