There’s certainly nothing wrong with the V700 from a technical standpoint. It has a sleek, stylish and well-made aluminium body, an excellent Schnieder-Kreuznach 3x optical zoom lens, a seven megapixel CCD and a nice sharp 2in LCD monitor with 118,080 pixels. Its performance figures are also right up there with the best of them. It starts up in around two seconds, which is quicker than most, and has a shot-to-shot time of about two seconds, which is also far from sluggish.