Casio Exilim EX-Z80

8.10 Megapixels   3X zoom lens   2.6 inch LCD

Maybe the EX-Z80 extremely strongest feature is its styling: slim, sleek, and sporting a considerate application of different color and design, it’s merely a great and good-looking camera. The EX-Z80 furthermore feels great, in that its weight and size are absolutely proportioned and its smoothed surfaces afford it professionalism distant removed from the dinky plastics of a typical point-and-shoot.

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The buttons are decreased to a minimum while maintaining easy functionality: on top is the little power push button and a typical shutter release (itself ensconced in an inflexible zoom), and on the back are the rest of the controls, including a four-way chooser that makes menu-navigation relatively breezy. The back furthermore contains a very large LCD viewfinder, which has been expanded to fill as much space as feasible Thankfully, Casio has selected not to bother through a pinhole viewfinder, an extremely solid decision, and we hope further makers will follow suit.

Features

The merely major absence in the EX-Z80’s feature-set is its lack of manual control; while the digital camera does allow one to choose a specific ISO and focus manually, there’s no way to overrule the shutter and aperture settings. Honestly, manual-mode is not too sorely overlook, as the camera automatically selected suitable settings in each of our tests, but tending just before very elevated shutters and wide apertures.

In adding to its full-automatic mode, the EX-Z80 furthermore features an enormous array of scene-modes via a feature unconstrained ‘Best Shot’ (which Casio has, maybe unfortunately, labeled as ‘BS’ on the correct button); there are 26 totality, encompassing anything from portraits to ‘fashion accessories’ to food and still two ‘self-portrait’ modes, which should prove a large hit at libational union parties. Numerous of these scenes looked bewilderingly specific, and we couldn’t help however astonish if some were included solely to make ‘Best Shot’ seem more helpful, as the simple auto-mode be sufficient in every situation we tested. Still, some settings are basically worthwhile, like an ‘eBay’ mode pro product shots.

However the EX-Z80 has an assortment of helpful features, our preferred being its rapid-fire constant modes. The most excellent shoots upwards of two photos for each second pro as long as the shutter is depressed, and the flash-mode convey four back-to-back shots every lit with an independent flash. There are moreover numerous auto-shutter modes. The easiest mode automatically fires the shutter while both the subject and the camera are still, and the most difficult is a ‘familial’ smile-detection mode that purportedly weights itself towards faces the digital camera has photographed already. The straightforward auto-shutter mode was great pro reducing camera-shake, and the unweighted smile-detection worked as publicized (sometimes moreover late, however, depiction a picture of a post-smile countenance), wherever the ‘family detector’ feature had us skeptical.

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