The widest focal length of 35mm has only just managed to squeeze in the yacht’s sail, but there’s a good level of detail across the frame.

There is however already evidence of some noise in shadow areas, and a slightly unnatural, electronic appearance to the overall colour and tone of the image.

We held the camera close to the ground for this shot, but a respectable viewing angle allowed the screen to remain visible.

Once again, sharp results across the frame with few optical artefacts to mention, other than a small amount of fringing towards the corners.

The longer focal length and slight boost in sensitivity has resulted in a decrease of ultimate fine detail, with the crops lacking the crispness of the earlier 80 ISO shots at wide angle.

The camera’s shape and touch controls also made shooting this ‘action’ photo harder than more traditional rival compacts.

The T77 easily locked-onto the subject’s face, but with the automatically selected aperture, the background is almost as sharp as the foreground.

The boost in sensitivity has also resulted in a further decrease of fine detail and an increase in noise reduction artefacts. And once again the overall image has a slightly unnatural tone and colour to it compared to rival models.

The centre of the image is sharp, but like many compacts at very close range and wide angle, the field isn’t very flat; indeed move slightly away from the centre and the image starts to get very soft, although at least there’s little of the fringing also seen on many rival models.

As also seen in our High ISO Noise results page, the increase to 400 ISO results in a significant increase in noise, which on the T77 means greater smearing through noise reduction.

As such fine details are now absent, but the result still looks acceptable for most prints though.

The increase in sensitivity has unsurprisingly resulted in a noticeable reduction in quality here with quite visible noise.

The crops still contain a reasonable degree of detail, but worryingly there’s streaking visible to the right of the display cabinet, probably down to sensor blooming.

So again, like most compacts, 1600 ISO should be avoided unless for emergency use or small emailed images.

The T77 also offers a 3200 ISO mode, but it ain’t pretty. You can see an example of it in our High ISO Noise results.