Another example of Casio's logical and simple design. All the camera's connections are on the left side of the camera, the majority of which are concealed under a rubber door. From top to bottom: digital (remote), video out, USB, power-in. Just to the rear of the camera you can see a standard external flash PC-sync connector, this makes the QV-4000 pretty unique among its peers and provides the owner the opportunity to use the camera with both portable flash and studio flash systems. Kudos.

Nothing new here, the same 3x optical zoom F2.0 - F2.5 Canon Lens we saw on the QV-3000, QV-3500 and a multitude of other digital cameras from other manufacturers. It's of course also the same lens used on Canon's own PowerShot G1 and G2. The actual focal length range of 7 - 21 mm works out as a 35 mm equivalent focal length range of 34 - 102 mm.

The base of the camera is a simple enough affair, battery compartment and tripod mount. In this shot you can more easily see the depth of the camera (front to back) and the girth of the hand grip. Note, metal tripod mount but sadly positioned at the back corner of the camera too close to the body edge. This positioning will cause the camera to tip backwards very slightly when mounted on a cork or rubber based tripod mount.

The QV-4000's conventional compact camera flash, it's rated with an approximate range of 0.5 to 3.5 m (1.6 to 11.5 ft). The small window to the bottom right in this image is the flash exposure sensor, this is used to measure the flash output. In normal mode the camera outputs just one flash, with redeye reduction enabled there are two flashes approximately three quarters of a second apart.

Just below the Casio badge on the front of the camera is the AF assist lamp, this outputs a strong orange beam to assist the auto focus system in low light. It works by illuminating the subject with the light, this helps the contrast detect AF system 'see' the subject. The manual notes that the AF assist lamp works best when the subject is less than 2.5 m (8.2 ft) away. This lamp also doubles as the self-timer indicator.