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Casio Exilim
EX-V7
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7.20 Megapixels
7X zoom lens
2.5 inch LCD |
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Casio's
latest Exilim EX-V7 is one of the earliest 7X optical, 7.2-megapixel
ultracompacts by image stabilization, to very popular in the market. The
introduction of this advanced and very classy camera proves Casio has
abundance of game, particularly in the point-and-shoot space, wherever
the company constantly strives to innovate. Still better, the EX-V7 has
a very excellent design, reminiscent of a few of Sony's striking
compacts. That said, the Exilim doesn't fairly measure up in a few key
areas.
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Pro one, it's extremely expensive. Even by a dock, the any latest
digital camera should price a little lower than $399.99 list. The EX-V7
utilizes a lens with a powerful 7X optical zoom-possessing a zoom range
of nearly 6.3mm to 44.1mm (which is equal to a 35mm lens by a 38mm to
266mm zoom) by f-stops of f/3.4 to f/5.3. Other wise I'd like to see
more at the wide-angle end of the range. (A Casio rep told me recently,
though, that increasing the extensive angle would require making the
camera bigger.) Last, I'm not crazy concerning the vertically oriented
zoom control, because my finger kept slipping off it.
That said, there's a lot I did like concerning this camera. As I've
found in the past, Casio devices are very well at shooting video, and
the EX-V7 is no exception. It utilizes H.264 MPEG-4 encoding (storing
video as .MOV files), which provides you extremely good quality and lets
you store more video on your memory card than by older video formats.
Depending on which Movie mode you utilize, you preserve store videos to
the capacity of the card at nearly 30 frames for every second. Audio is
recorded in personal stereo, too, and sounded pretty good pro such a
little camera. While using the much highest quality setting, the UHQ
extensive mode, the files are only slightly greater than by VGA, at
848-by-480. Such as the Casio EX-S770, the EX-V7 has a lot of
short-movie and past-movie modes that let you capture a little bit of
the action just before you push the shutter. It furthermore
automatically changed exposure fairly well. Some of the color on the
ultimate images was a tad washed out, though.
For sure, I certainly appreciate the recent 7X optical-zoom lens. What I
like most concerning the EX-V7's optics is that it utilizes a
nontelescoping lens—meaning the lens doesn't extend out while you turn
the camera on. This construction furthermore speeds boot up time. The
camera supports the most recent SDHC memory cards, which is too nice.
The EX-V7
has a ton of sight modes, a few of them practical ones, like the
business-card mode, which automatically straightens card photos if
they're taken at a absolutely right angle. (Just be sure to have a dark
backdrop—the camera had many problems while I shot a white card on a
white table.)
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