Photos: Hands-on with the Nikon Coolpix S520

We had a quick look at the S520 at Focus on Imaging, and were slightly underwhelmed by the performance of the 64mm (2.5-inch) screen. How that 153,000-dot resolution holds up to everyday use will be another thing we focus on in our review.

One feature we like a lot is the option to select three of your favourite scene modes from the 16 available. These appear in the Mode menu for one-touch access. We've chosen as our top pick the brand new Food Mode that "allows users to capture beautiful close-up images of food at high ISO settings in restaurants or other locations where flash photography is not permitted". Other manufacturers call such a flash/sound-dousing setting museum mode. Thank goodness someone's finally made the connection to those stringent restaurant rules that restrict everything from dirty trainers to outlandishly loud and bright compact cameras.