Casio Exilim EX-Z80 8MP Digital Camera - Black Good things come in small packages. Like the EX-Z80. With 8.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom, and Exilim Engine 2.0, this sleek little camera can turn out big pictures. An easy mode, one button video function, and an assortment of color options, mean that this camera is ready to be your sidekick?accompanying you out on the town or into the office. YouTube capture mode, H.264 , and enhanced video make uploading and sharing a snap. And the although the camera is compact, the LCD isn’t?a 2.6 inch wide screen makes it simple to frame your perfect shot. It’s small, it’s smart, and it’s stylish. With the wide video-shooting function (16:9 ratio 848×480), the Exilim plays true to your plasma o LCD television, regardless of size. The future of video is in your Exilim. What more do you need? (Required SD Memory card is optional) Sensitivity Setting - Still - Auto, ISO64, ISO100, ISO200, ISO400, ISO800, ISO1600; Movie - Auto Triple self-timer modes Built-in ElectronicFlash - Auto, Off, On, Soft Flash, Red Eye Reduction with range - Approx.33′ to 8.53′ (W), approx. 1.97′ to 4.59 (T) Mono mic and speaker Built-in quartz digital clock - Date and time - Recorded with image date, Time stamp, Auto calendar up to the year 2049, World time 162 cities (32 zones), City, Date, Time, DST Battery Life per charge up to 210 still images (CIPA Standards); Continuous Playback Approx 3 hr. 30 min. (still images); Continuous Recording Approx 3 hr. 30 min. (voice recording) Unit Dimensions - 3.53 (W) x 2.03 (H) x. 75 (D); Thinnest Part -. 70 ; Weight - 3.53 oz (excluding battery and accessories)
Customer Review: Amazing Video Quality!
This camera has amazing video quality in a very small package. I think the picture quality suffers a little due to its small size. I’ve taken pictures out in the brightest of days, only to find out that the picture turns out very dark. Also for 8.1MP you expect a 8×6 print to be free of any graininess, but if you look closely enough they’re right there.
The battery life is nothing to scream about, and costs about $50 to find a spare battery.
Overall the camera looks great, and is one of the smallest cameras for this resolution. But to be honest this is a clear example of form over substance. Casio could have done much better with image quality on this one.
I guess if you’re looking for a great video camera to carry around in your pocket, and are willing to shell out another 50 bucks for the battery, this one is for you.
Customer Review: …the best digital point-and-shoot I ever had
I owned several cameras, film and digital, and this is by far the best digital point-and-shoot I ever had. I have to admit that it took me a long time to decide on buying a Casio as opposed to Cannon, Nikon, or Pentax, as I had very good experience with those.
However my wife was supposed to be the main user of this new camera, so when she saw it in a store, she was sold on it, as the camera is very small and very good looking. She loved the green one (which is actually a greenish yellow) so we paid $10 more than the black one and got it.
To me it took a lot more to be convinced, so here is my point of view on it:
Pros:
- Very good quality of the pictures (the auto focus works great and the multi point metering system takes care nicely of most situations, including some more difficult shots (like high contrast, back lit subjects, moving subjects, etc)
- I love that you can easily switch between standard format (1.33 ratio), film format (3:2 ratio), or wide screen (16:9 format).
- Metal body, makes the camera fill solid and you can have a good grip and stability.
- Easy to switch between different menus like changing formats, flash modes, ISO sensitivity, different self timer settings, shooting modes (like single, continuous, etc), auto shutter, and face recognition modes.
- Although I consider face recognition a gimmick and I never use it in real life, I did try it and surprisingly works very well! Not only the camera will find and focus on the face, but you can set also the Auto-Shutter to take the picture only when the subject smiles. There is even more: you can record several faces in the camera’s internal memory, and when those people are in a larger group, the camera will find their faces and focus on them, so they come out the best! I tried the freakish feature and it works!!!
Also, it has other many Auto-Shooting features, that some people might want, I tried them, they work but, I don’t normally need most of them.
- The movie recording quality is very good. I set it to wide screen and the highest quality and it is exceptionally good, I say at least like a DVD (also it does record sound very well, with no significant camera’s own noise).
- It has its own movie recording button, so you do not need to go though any settings in order to start filming. You push the trigger on top, you take pictures, or if you push the trigger on the back side, you are filming (push again to stop). It can not get any simpler or faster.
- If you don’t like to mingle with settings, you may find the “Best Shot” setting very simple and useful. You click the “BS” button (funny name… ;-), and you get a bunch of sample photos. Use the left-right-up-down buttons to navigate to the picture that is similar to what you are shooting, push OK, and the camera sets itself up for that type of picture (like flowers, portrait, self portrait, sports, night scenes etc, etc).
- I love the burst shooting mode (aka CS - Continuous Shooting), which has several settings:
CS - shoots pictures at the quality you set as fast as possible;
CS-FAST shoots lower resolution pictures and saves them to the internal memory. I got about 4 to 5 pictures per second in this mode, and the quality is good enough to print 5×7″ pictures. This is a life saver when your kid shakes hands with the principal of the school, when they make a karate jump, or when they throw that ball. Normally you push the trigger and hope the camera takes the picture at the right time. With this, you push the trigger a little earlier, hold it until the kid is through, and before you know it you have a series of pictures taken at short intervals of each other, so your chances are a lot better to find one that shows what you want to see.
- Used with a 4GB SDHC memory card, my wife took literary hundreds of pictures and filmed many minutes of movie during a recent trip before she had to transfer them to the computer. She did that only several times during the 3 weeks trip.
- Also, one charge of the battery lasted for several days. In fact she did not charge it until, into the four or fifth day of the trip, the low battery message came on.
Negatives:
None so important to give anything lower than a five star rating.
- I would have liked a “shorter” focal length on the close end, so that you can have a wider view as sometimes there is not enough room to get away from larger groups of people. However most of the cameras have this focal lengths, so this is just a wish with small point and shoot cameras.
All being said, I love this little camera.
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Casio Exilim EX-Z200 10.1 MP Digital Camera - RED From high-resolution still pictures to widescreen videos, this 10-megapixel camera is extremely easy to use yet offers so much. The EX-Z200 with 4x Lens Optical Zoom captures the big moments in your life?with no blur. CCD-shift Image Stabilizer puts an end to those fabulous-gone-fuzzy pics and creates album-ready images you’ll cherish. Wide angle 28 mm, auto shutter, Auto Best Shot Mode, and wide 2.7 inch Super Clear LCD are just a few features that make this the camera of the moment?every moment. Take your videos and simply transfer to YouTube for storage and sharing with a select group of friends or all. SD SDHC Memory Card Slot offers the opt of unlimited image storage. H.264 technology delivers superior-quality video, providing 30 frames per second at 640 x 480, which can be easily viewed on most video-sharing Web sites. With the wide video-shooting function (16:9 ratio), the Exilim plays true to your plasma or LCD television, regardless of size. The future of video is in your Exilim. Internet ready! BEST SHOT - Included - 39 scenes YouTube Capture Mode Face Recognition Voice Recording Self-Timer 2.7-inch wide TFT color LCD (Super Clear LCD), 230,160 dots (959×240) Multimode ElectronicFlash Mono mic and speaker File Format - Still Images - JPEG (Exif Version 2.2), DCF 1.0 standard, DPOF compliant; Movies - MOV format, H.264/AVC, IMA-ADPCM (monaural);Audio (Voice Recording) - WAV format (monaural) Unit Dimensions (excluding projections) - 3.66? (W) x 2.16? (H) x. 89? (D), Thinnest Part - 81?; Weight (excluding battery and accessories) - Approximately 4.2 ounces 
