The Z800EXR's menus are composed of large on-screen buttons, and they're intuitive and very easy to use. Unlike the Lumix DMC-FX75, the menus are not entirely image-based--each icon features words as well as images for easy navigation.

Playback on the Finepix Z800EXR offers a smorgasbord of features, such as the ability to do some very basic editing (cropping, rotating, making collages, resizing, and removing red-eye), along with some convenient search features. If you're one of those people who usually keeps hundreds of photos on an SD card, these options will be very helpful--you can search for images on your camera by date, starred favorites, type of data (photo or video), face (using face recognition technology), by scene (landscape or portrait), and by "upload mark." The "upload mark" feature is another convenient option--you can mark certain photos for upload, so that when you connect your camera to a computer (and open the corresponding software), it will automatically upload those pictures to Facebook or YouTube.

Another fantastic playback feature is the "compare" option, which allows you to take two photos and compare them, side by side, on the touchscreen. All in all, the Z800EXR is one of the best cameras we've seen in terms of in-camera playback and retouching options.

In our standardized PCWorld Labs' image and video testing, the FinePix Z800EXR lost a bit of its luster when its photos were compared with those from other point-and-shoot cameras. The bright spots were exposure quality, color fidelity, and lack of distortion: The Z800EXR netted scores of Good, Good, and Very Good in those areas, respectively.