First the size. It’s not small enough to be truly pocketable. I use my Contax U4R for that. The layout is also not as good as with the Contax, nor is it as intuitive. I find myself always putting my fingers on the wrong places, esepecially on the LCD screen. …

Despite being a small and light and pocketable camera, the S1 takes surprisingly good pictures. Of course, it’s unreasonable to expect the kind of quality you can get on a Nikon D70 SLR or Coolpix 8800 “bridge” camera, because these latter models are bigger and therefore have a larger lens …