Editorial Review:Product Description:The EX-V8 is equipped with a 7x Optical Zoom and 8.1-Megapixels within its slim shell and a CCD-shift image stabilization system. The Exilim Engine 2.0 high-performance image-processing module allows high quality movies to be recorded at the high compression rate of the next-generation H.264 standard. H.264/AVC video encoding ensures movie file sizes remain small, yet high quality, and YouTube Capture Mode sets all the right parameters for easy posting. YouTube Capture Mode enables you to shoot and save movies at the optimum size, quality and other settings for YouTube. Other features include face-detection, Anti Shake DSP and sensitivities up to ISO 6400. Flash - Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, Soft Flash and Red-eye reduction Shutter speed - 1/2 - 1/800 second (Program AE) Scene modes - 34 Best Shot modes and 11 Movie Best Shot modes Dimensions - 3.76 x 2.35 x 1.0 Weight - 5.26 ounces
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
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great little pocket camera
I bought this camera as a pocket camera for when I don't want to carry my DSLR. It does just about everything and some surprises rather well. I really like the 7x zoom and the fact that the lens doesn't extend. It also takes great movies.
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Pretty good, but has a few problems
This is a very nice little camera. I like it overall, but is has some problems. Things that I like are the way the cover slides over, Olympus Stylus style. It provides much better protection for the lens than the flimsy little eyelids on most cameras. The lack of a protruding lens makes it more rugged, I think. The display is big. It has very a manual mode and shutter priority and aperture priority, movies, and best shot.
But the things I don't like are these. The manual mode isn't much good, because it still automatically adjusts the sensitivity (ISO). Yes, you can dive into a menu and make it hold, but that resets when you turn the camera off. The little mode dial moves very easily, and it is often the case that it moves with me just handling the camera. It doesn't focus very close. (That is undoubtedly a consequence of not having a protruding lens.)
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Disappointed
I bought the camera while I was on vacation in Chicago. It came with a small defect, where some photos went out "burned" on the right side. As is was not common and I didn't have time to return it, I didn't do anything. After 1 month it started to have a "lens problem" where it didn't take any pictures at all.
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Great for movies, OK for pictures
I bought this Casio to go along my new Nikon dSLR and I was not disappointed at all by the movie capability of this little gem. Between the anti-shake feature and the stereo sound, you get great movies from this little box. For the pictures, compared to the dSLR, it can't hold its own of course, but its small size means it's always with me and thus there are some shots that I have made with it that I couldn't have made with my Nikon... Also, its macro mode is pretty good and underrated IMO. Overall, an excellent value for the price..
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Usable and accessible with a caveat
I review both for functionality and for accessibility.
This small point and shoot ( and other similar Casios, probably, from their instruction manuals ) are almost fully accessible to people with photosensitive / motion sensitive epilepsy. In ordinary usage, with the sole exception of using the self timer, there is no blinking, flashing icons, animations or other seizure inducing bad interface implementation. This is in sharp distinction, say, to the Canon Powershot SD-950 which is a nightmare. ( I purchased one for a friend and I spent a week playing with it ). The Canon has blinking or animations and motion that make it totally unusable to sensitive epileptics. In particle, the red "shake warning" icon that vibrates insanely at low light levels and the various animations of the four way selector icon displayed on the rear LCD display.
Comment:
Whether a piece of equipment blinks or not is critical to people with epilepsy. That is why I review equipment and write reviews. IF blinking cannot be disabled, then the item may be unusable to epileptics. For example, I tolerate absolutely no blinking, flashing or animations and I, personally, cannot use anything that does this.
This Casio camera has a status light that does blink almost all of the time. You can cover it and avoid this annoyance. There is no way, however, of disabling it. Because it can be covered up so that it cannot be seen, I ignore it in my review. Other than this light, and the extremely annoying blinking autofocus illumination light blinking during timer operation ( which cannot be disabled and makes timer operation unusable for epileptics ), the camera seems to be totally usable. ( For example, I spent $750 on a Fuji camera and it was almost accessible. However, when I switched to Raw mode it started displaying blinking random squares on the LCD display during i/o and I started having seizures to the point that I threw the camera away. Accessibility is important. I do not think that it is right that people like me have to lose many, many tens of thousands of dollars trying to find something that they can use. Hopefully, some people will not lose their money as I repeatedly have. Accessibility is the great exception and never the rule. )
I would rate the Casio a 4, however the first one that I purchased was defective ( it had a red pixel stuck at very annoying maximum brightness on the LCD display) Rather than Casio/Computer Brain just sending me a new replacement, it is off to Casio repair for God knows how long. What a RIPOFF. So, I had to purchase a second one to use. As I said, what a RIPOFF. This is brand new; I purchased a new camera and I don't want some used, reconditioned RIPOFF model. Thanks for nothing. You do this you; get a bad review.
Annoyances and hassles and inaccessibility:
1) Casio is too cheap to include an SD memory card. CHEAP. ( I realize that supplying a 32MB card like some manufactures do is futile as it is used one time until the purchaser gets a 1-4GB card. Casio, how about including a 512MB - 1 GB card. It can't cost you more than a buck or two? Instead, I had to go to Radio Shack and get ripped off of $40 so I could use the camera. )
2) The pictures, especially indoors are of not very high quality. Grainy, poor color in details, etc.
3) A lot of barrel lens distortion. I photographed a brick wall and later I thought it was an arch. Slightly sarcastic but still very obvious distortion.
4) Manual modes are almost a joke. There are only a couple of physical apertures plus a neutral density filter to "similulate" actually changing the aperture. ( basically f4 or out the door )
5) You really have to use it on a tripod for lower light levels because of the very poor high ISO ( 400 ) performance. The tripod socket is at the opposite side of the camera from the shutter release button. You have to push pretty hard and everything VIBRATES badly. Therefore using a tripod is almost useless. There is no provision for any sort of remote shutter release. ( if it had a mini-USB connector, it would be nice to have a mini-USB shutter release )
6) To use a tripod, therefore, you have to use the self timer. THIS IS IMPLEMENTED EXTREMELY POORLY! When you push the shutter release, the autofocus light on the front of the camera BLINKS BRIGHTLY once a second ( and then much faster just before taking the picture ). I have unpleasant seizures from this so that I have to absolutely avoid using the self timer. ( BTW, other reviews have commented on the stupidity of using this very bright light for this purpose so I am not alone. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID. ( and dangerous to people with epilepsy, to say the least )
7) The camera does not have the typical mini-USB connector found on other small cameras. Instead, Casio supplies a proprietary docking station. The problem with this is that you have to bring the large docking station with you to charge the camera or to upload photographs. Now you need a camera bag rather than a shirt pocket. STUPID.
8) The almost worthless camera strap ( wrist strap ) attaches to the right side of the camera ( and to the right wrist ). It is not really long enough to conveniently manipulate the camera. Also, since most people are right handed, do you really want the camera swinging from your right wrist as you use your right hand to open doors, etc? Wrist strap should be for the left wrist. STUPID, again.
9) Large, too large to bring with you, user manual. It is large because it is in 19 languages, each requiring a couple of dozen pages. The REAL manual is a PDF file.
Conclusions:
1) Accessible to people with epilepsy provided you never use the self timer.
2) Fair photograph quality
3) Various stupid human factors.
4) Iffy quality ( at least for my defective unit ) and subferior service.
Hence 3 stars. Were it not for the self timer and 4) it would get 4 stars.
At least I can use it with the above restraints and never get clobbered. That is truly remarkable. It is fun to use, too!
