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IMHO this camera has a battery that does not hold its charge for long. Make sure you carry along an extra battery if you want to take it on vacation or intend to take more than 25 pictures with the flash on.

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The camera uses the popular KLIC-7004 battery. You can get a second battery with 1200mAh instead of the standard 1000mAh for extra life from eBay for about $6 a piece.

The v1073 uses an LCD that is difficult to see outdoors in the sun. You can try the following to help it gain up a little bit:

I have been fooling around with the V1073 settings and you can make this camera more usable in the sunlight by doing the following steps:

1. Select the 'P' mode on the touchscreen.
2. Click the middle button on the bottom right of the camera to get into setup.
3. Select the setup tab at the top right of the touchscreen.
4. Make sure LCD brightness is set to high power.
5. Make sure the LCD dimmer is set to off.
6. Click the middle button on the bottom right of the camera to get out of setup.
7. Select the 'p' in the upper left of the touchscreen.
8. Select 'SCN' or scene mode in the middle of the touchscreen.
9. Scroll across and choose 'Beach' scene mode on the touchscreen. This causes the display to gain up a little.

It's still not great but it might make the difference for some of you.

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Standard features
Sensor type 1 / 1.63 in. CCD
CCD total pixels 11.34 MP (4072 × 2784)
Effective pixels 11.11 MP (4016 × 2768)
Lens 37%u2013111 mm (35 mm equiv.) f/3.1%u20135.7 SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH VARIOGON Lens
Zoom 3X optical, 5X digital, total zoom range 15X

Image stabilizer optical
Shutter speed 8%u20131/1164 sec.
LCD 3.0 in. (7.8 cm) high resolution (230K pixels) touch screen display
Storage 32 MB internal memory* available, SDHC/SD card expansion slot
Auto focus
Type TTL-AF
Focus modes normal AF, macro AF, infinity AF
Focus range wide: 0.6 m%u2013infinity, tele: 0.6 m%u2013infinity (normal AF)
wide: 0.13%u20130.7 m, tele: 0.5%u20130.7 m (macro AF)
wide: 10.0 m%u2013infinity, tele: 10.0 m%u2013infinity (infinity AF)

Focus single, continuous
Auto focus zones multi-zone, center zone
AF assist light yes
Exposure control
ISO sensitivity auto: 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 8000**
Metering modes multi-pattern, center-weighted, center spot
Compensation ±2.0 EV with 1/3 EV steps
Bracketing no
Histogram display display on live view and review
White balance auto, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, open shade
Flash
Range wide: 0.6%u20134.1 m, ISO 400
tele: 0.6%u20132.2 m, ISO 400

Modes auto, fill, red eye, off
Shooting specifications
Shooting modes smart capture mode, SCN (scene modes), P (program mode), video
Scene modes portrait, sport, landscape, close up, night portrait, night landscape, snow, beach, text/document, fireworks, flower, museum/manner, self-portrait, high ISO, children, backlight, panning, candle light, sunset, panorama stitch, blur reduction
Self-timer self-timer (10 sec.), two-shot self-timer, shutter delay (2 sec.)
Burst mode 3 fps first burst
Click to capture 0.2 sec.
Shot to shot 1.1 sec.