The advantage of the E-450 over the E-620 is its lower price and weight – not that the E-620 is terribly heavy but the E-450 is lighter still, and costs considerably less.
I can very well imagine the user leaving the EXR in auto mode and leaving the other functionalities for what they are. And this is also what the Fujifilm FinePix F200EXR is made for.
All in all, the D5000 is honest about its heritage and intentions: It’s a mighty fine camera for people who are in need of a solid performer at a reasonable price.
Overall picture quality was good, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the results were decent at ISO 400 and ISO 800–unusually high ISO performance for a model in the point-and-shoot category. Image noise was fairly well controlled, but with some sacrifice of image detail.