The ability of the camera to handle shadow and highlight was very impressive, as seen by this sunrise shot from the hotel. I did do some Levels adjustment to help the shadow areas along in this image, but the information was definitely in the image.

You might think a small camera wouldn't deliver subtlety of color and tone, but you'd be wrong when it came to this one. Inside Fort Point where rooms filled with intriguing shadows, the Casio handled the dark and light values as if I were working with a spot meter and carefully reading the scene. It was very impressive throughout.

(Top): The EX-S100 is a great traveling companion as you can place it inside a shirt pocket and hardly know it's there, yet it allows you to make very good pictures on the road. This shot of the Golden Gate Bridge was made from the top floor of Fort Point on our recent Digital Photography Workshop. It was just aim and shoot with the tiny Casio. (Above): This photo was made after sunset with the camera sitting on top of a small post looking down at the bridge. This image was very underexposed but using Levels in Photoshop Elements 2 brought it back, albeit with more noise than we'd like.

During our workshop we were hopping on and off cable cars around San Francisco. Seeing pro photographer Ken Sklute on the side railing I held the Casio at arm's length and took this grab shot. The Casio caught the color and light just right here, as it did with almost every photo I took.

It was lots of fun to walk around with the Casio as it started up right away and didn't give me any of the bothersome lag time when I wanted to make a shot. This statue and background are in the Embarcadero area of San Francisco. I shot this with fill flash on the Casio, but frankly the flash is pretty weak, especially when working at anything but the wide focal length range, so I had to open it up in Photoshop's Shadow/Highlight tool.