It comes with a 150 page manual. In readable (mostly) English. A zillion options. One comfortable feature, you're able to program it to reflect upon most settings. When you need the flash to last off (that i need generally) you are able to set it to try this, you will still turn it off the sensation you get. Seems to receive good sensitivity, the whole picture stabilizer works quite nicely.

As a still camera, about average. To be a camcorder, very much for the money. It shoots normal video, HD (1080p, 60 Hz) and fast video, approximately 1200 fps. Low resolution above 300 fps, good for dysfunctions that go bump, not for fancy presentations. The 30 300 fps adjustable setting is not really so convenient, you will want to set the frame rate each time you shoot. It must be programmable. The 300 fps fixed setting possesses a resolution near 512x390, good enough on many sports work.

A investigate pixels. The Ex F1 contains a 6 Mp sensor. You can find a lot more than that at a lower price, however it is more marketing than real. You should brows through the sensor (CCD/CMOS) size. Real world lenses are limited to about 100 line pairs per mm in whatever they can resolve. While using specs to the Ex, it tries to acquire 200 lp/mm. So, not real. My little Olympus P&S has finished 400 lp/mm. You may can't get there. Fewer pixels for the given chip size usually means that better light sensitivy. That assists above all else.

For my use, mostly in sports, an excellent compromise. The CS prerecord mode is really good. You'll find 60 full resolution frames before you can press the shutter. It stores them in of internal memory and saves developing press the shutter. Allowing you to see how it happened previous to (roughly 60 fps, programmable) Using a 16Gbyte Sdcard, about $25, you can save over 4500 full resolution pictures.