The DC E1000 is primarily a point-and-shoot camera, but its not short on features. It has 24 different scene modes, including a portrait mode with face detection (doesnt everything?), the usual selection of landscape, sunset, snow, kids, sport etcetera, but including some unusual ones such as the ‘sketch mode, which renders the image in eight shades of grey, and an ‘oil painting mode, which uses a reduced colour palette to produce a sort of posterised effect. It doesnt look much like an oil painting, but it is quite attractive. There is an anti-shake mode, but as usual with budget cameras this simply sets a high ISO value to produce a faster shutter speed.