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5.0 away from 5 stars ...the best digital point and shoot I ever had, July 3, 2008
This review is from: Casio EX Z80BE 8 MP, 3x Optical Zoom Digicam Blue (Electronics)
I owned several cameras, film and digital, this is definitely the perfect digital point and shoot I ever had. I need to admit who's involved a long while to pick the purchase of a Casio distinct from Cannon, Nikon, or Pentax, as I had pretty decent exposure to those.
However my spouse was allowed to be the chief user these new camera, then when she saw it within a store, she was in love with it, because camera is amazingly small and good looking. She loved the green one (which can be is a greenish yellow) so we paid $10 greater than the black one together with it.
To me it took so much more for being convinced, here is my angle upon it:
Pros:
Excellent excellence of the pictures (the auto focus is effective as well as the multi point metering system takes care nicely of all situations, including better difficult shots (like high contrast, back lit subjects, moving subjects, etc)
I really like that you may easily switch between standard format (1.33 ratio), film format (3:2 ratio), or wide screen (16:9 format).
Metal body, would make the camera fill solid professionals who log in contain a good grip and stability.
An easy task 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 that i never put it to use in the real world, I did consider it and surprisingly is effective! Not only the camera will see while keeping your focus for the face, nonetheless can set also the Auto Shutter to take the picture only if the niche smiles. There is always even more: it is easy to record several faces with the camera's of internal memory, and while men and women are in a better group, the camera may find their faces while keeping focused in it, in order to ended up the perfect! Cleaning it once a the freakish feature and it works!!!
Also, it includes other many Auto Shooting features, that some individuals may wish for, I could them, they work but, I would not normally need most of them.
The movie recording quality is quite good. I set it to wide screen additionally , the finest quality in fact it is exceptionally good, I say at the least being a DVD (also it does record sound actually, without a significant camera's own noise).
It provides some movie recording button, therefore , you will not need to go though any settings so that you can start filming. You push the trigger top most, you're taking pictures, or for those who push the trigger for the back side, that you're filming (push again to give up). It cannot get any simpler or faster.
If you don't wish to mingle with settings, sometimes the "Best Shot" setting really good and useful. You click the "BS" button (funny name... ; ), and you find a bunch of sample photos. Work with the left right up down buttons to demand picture which may be the same as what you're really shooting, push OK, along with the camera sets itself up for the method of picture (like flowers, portrait, self portrait, sports, night scenes etc, etc).
I need the burst shooting mode (aka CS Continuous Shooting), that's several settings:
CS shoots pictures inside the quality you place as fast as possible;
CS FAST shoots lower resolution pictures and saves those to the inner memory. I obtained about 4 to five pictures per second through this mode, and then the quality is a great one to print 5x7" pictures. That is the life saver if your kid shakes hands considering the principal from the school, should they get a karate jump, or right after they throw that ball. Normally you push the trigger and hope your camera takes the picture at the right time. On this, you push the trigger somewhat earlier, hold it prior to kid is through, and pretty soon you do have a combination of pictures taken at short intervals of one another, settle down ! probably considerably better to access 1 shows what you are looking to discover.
Used in combination with a 4GB SDHC memory, my aunt took literary numerous pictures and filmed many minutes of movie on a recent trip before she were required to transfer it to isn't even close to. She did that only frequency in the 3 weeks trip.
Also, one control of it lasted for a few days. In actual fact she didn't charge it until, within the four or fifth day of the trip, time battery message came on.
Negatives:
None terribly to make anything a lesser amount than a chic rating.
I'd personally have liked a "shorter" focal length around the close end, to help you have a relatively wider view as sometimes there is not enough room to emerge from larger groups of people. However the vast majority of cameras have this focal lengths, thus , making this simply wish with small point and shoot cameras.
All being said, I love this little camera.
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