Asus ZenPad 10 Z300M review

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Asus ZenPad 10 Z300M review

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Asus ZenPad 10 Z300M review

There are no major exposure or color problems here, but the ZenPad has turned the flowers into white blobs because resolution is so low. Fine for viewing online, but not so great for taking pictures worth archiving in the memory box.

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Asus ZenPad 10 Z300M review

Not a bad shot, but note how the roof of the church has become a black sheet. You can bring out some of the flattened detail in Photoshop, but then you'll see the ZenPad has actually turned it purple. Not ideal.

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Asus ZenPad 10 Z300M review

Check out that vivid orange: lovely stuff for a camera this low-end. However, the upper-right half of the image looks washed out because the ZenPad struggles to deal with the stronger light sources coming from that side of the scene.

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Asus ZenPad 10 Z300M review

Here we get a clear view of some of the ZenPad camera's key shortcomings. Why is the sky a blue-to-green gradient? And check out the grass, which has been smudged into a greenish mush.

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Asus ZenPad 10 Z300M review

This second park scene gives you an idea of the level of detail available. It looks fine if you view it as a digital 6x4 picture, but there's very little fine detail here when viewed on a computer monitor.

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Asus ZenPad 10 Z300M review

The tree appears nice and bright, and you can see the sky behind the leaves. However, the whole picture appears washed-out and there's not much detail in the bark of the tree. The milky look can be improved with a post-shot edit, but it demonstrates the limited intelligence of the image signal processor.

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Andrew Williams

Andrew is a freelance journalist and has been writing and editing for some of the UK's top tech and lifestyle publications including TrustedReviews, Stuff, T3, TechRadar, Lifehacker and others.

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