This is London's tech test

Price: £349.99

This is a nice-looking, if plasticy, camera with some good specs: 3.2mega pixels, x3 optical zoom (plus x2 digital) and it comes with a hard case.

However, the case, and its 250g weight make for a hefty package. And it's useless for left-handers. But its fatal flaw is the slowness of all operations.

Press the power button and you'd be forgiven for thinking the batteries (normal AA - you'll want to buy some rechargeables) are done. Add in a marked shutter lag, s-l-o-w zoom and 5sec to write a photo to memory, as well as about 3sec to change flash settings and you'll be as frustrated as hell if you see a quick photo op. Oh, and any flash format changes are lost when you turn the camera off.

Picture quality is good but the 16mb card will hold only nine images at highest resolution. Shop around and you'll find much better cameras at the same price.