Casio Exilim EX-V8

8.10 Megapixels   7X zoom lens   2.5 inch LCD

We generally used like the metal casing of most Casio cameras. It was a tad thicker than others we have tested; however it was still small enough pro a wash pants pocket. The digital camera is very solid, feels extremely well-made, and the metal body resist minor falls and scratch. All the push buttons were much responsive, and most were tag well enough to know without too much difficulty. The lens retracts into the camera body whilst the digital camera is turn off or in photo review mode, giving reasonable protection of digital camera.

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The 2.5" LCD is as a most effective viewfinder, however like nearly everyone LCDs, the very low-resolution prevents it from being a very well indicator of whether a picture will turn out well once it was on our personal computer. Even, we comprehend this is a main problem that will be endemic to high-megapixel cameras.

Camera Quality

The EX-V8 has a most effective 7X optical zoom lens, particularly by its relatively slim size. ISO settings should have presented a little higher than ISO 800, particularly when comparable recent models are shipping by ISO 1600. We’d like to see a few better stats as of a $300 camera, therefore it appears most of the money went into the 8.1 megapixel sensor, anti-shake and the 7x interior optical zoom.

The auto-focus never seemed to work correctly pro us. The motor that drove the lens was always whirring, and merely stopped once we pressed the shutter. The anti-shake made an absolute difference, on both video and motionless shots, working much better than further Casio most recent models we’ve tested. That being said, it generally didn’t matter, because the picture was blurred not through our hand trembling but the failing autofocus.

Set up on the EX-V8 was very speedy, no suspicion aided with the mechanical slide-open on switch. We were capable to go from the off position to a (relatively) focused, completed photo in under 2 seconds, other than unlike other latest cameras the time between successive shots did not recover. We resembling the in-camera editing functions (counting rotation, resizing and cropping). But as we explain before, thanks to extremely high photo resolutions, the LCD’s resolution was excessively low to see if the editing we did was an development or not.

Image Quality

We tried extremely hard, other than we were absolutely incapable to like any of the photos we took by this latest digital camera. Very Dim-light, sunlight, inside or outside, the pictures just looked very bad. Lots of noise, blurry subjects and a whole inability to focus automatically all made each picture suffer, so much that we couldn’t find out one suitable model to display. Outside daylight shots worked very best, but the camera rarely focused on what we wished it to. We found ourselves moving the digital camera pending the small blinking box turned green, which was more annoying than extremely helpful.

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