Casio reveals Exilim EX-ZS15 touch-screen compact

It's funny how cam companies are rushing to the gizmo addons before giving the cams faster lenses, for instance.

Not that I don't welcome tech, but it's baffling looking around and seeing how these lenses on compacts appear to be getting slower over time.

I like Casio's cameras. But the crazy rush to touch-screen operation is baffling. Few of these touch-screen controls are viewable in bright daylight, which is where compact digital cameras can give their optimalresults! Perhaps fewer buttons eliminates costs, but as someone with grown-up fingers, I've found most touch-screen cameras (from Canon, Kodak, and Panasonic) over-promise and are a disappointment in many daylight photo opportunities.

I'm a bit surprised about DPR's language problems. You'd assume someone there is either fully versed in Japanese or that Japanese manufacturers automatically give out English press releases at the earliest moment.
But they introduce something new in Japanese only and the world's biggest camera site (?) cannot fully make sense of it.

(I understand from the DPR news text that the information is there, just only in incomprehensable Japanese. From the news text it does not seem that there is only limited information about this camera in any language available.)

Touch me if u wish or touch me not! I'm very sensitive. Don't smear me with your not so clean thick thumb.Be careful about ur other fingers too!I prefer tectile sensation, push or press excite me no more. Photography is made simplified. The manufacturers cannot keep faith on the IQ of the consumers. But at the same time they want every dull moron like me should excel without any training.Why should I think about basics of photography? That's why few manufacturers even stopped providing the written booklet along with the camera because who knows better than them that a majorchunk of us are illiterate but aspirant.Some believe that sign language through a 3" LCD port is the best way to communicate.So it is a kind of 'Reductive Evolution' and Casio is the harbinger in this trend.There are 'me too' followers and copy cats who can clone anything even by sniffing the faintest whiff.Of course there are not so dextrous individuals who might see it as a boon for their limited functionalities.