Editorial Review:Product Description:Offering high quality 8.1 megapixel photos, the EX-Z850 includes a 3X optical zoom, and offers both manual aperture and shutter speed priority AE options for advanced users who prefer to create customized images. The impressive 2.5' Super Bright LCD generates approximately 1,200 cd/m2 of luminescent output, making the monitor even easier to view when outdoors. It includes the latest version of the EXILIM Engine, featuring the Anti Shake DSP, which considerably reduces the capture of blurred images due to shaky hands or moving subjects, so you only have to worry about which shots to take, not how they will come out. In response to user's high demand, the EX-Z850's Super Life Battery supports 440 shots per charge, providing convenient, long-lasting usability. The EX-Z850 also includes 'Old Photo' Best Shot Mode, which refreshes faded colors of old photos by bringing them back to life in digital format. Additionally, when taking high quality long duration MPEG-4 movies, the EX-Z850 instantaneously reduces camera shake electronically. For movies taken in dimly lit environments, the 'built-in' Illumination LED Light provides additional illumination of the subject. Once powered on, the camera is ready to take pictures in approximately 1.0 second Built-in multimode electronic-flash / White LED illumination light enables both still images and movies to be taken in low light conditions and acts as an AF assist light / Rapid Flash enables three consecutive, high speed flash photos in only one second / High Power Flash compensates for objects to be taken in poorly illuminated areas up to 12.1 meters away Unit Dimensions - 3.50 (W) x 2.30 (H) x. 93 (D) (excluding projections;. 78 at thinnest part) / Unit Weight - Approx. 4.59 oz (excluding battery and accessories)
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
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great little camera
I've had this camera for about a year and a half and it has worked great. I love the fact that it has a rechargeable battery. Pictures are nice and clear and it's easy to use. My only "problem" is that it's so tiny--I prefer a camera that it is a bit bigger and easier to hold onto. My friend's son (just turned four)even took some pretty good pictures when playing with the camera.
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Camera has known problems. Poor customer service. Going back to Sony or Canon
I've had this camera for about a year and a half. This camera has a *known defect* - the zoom, set button and display button frequently quit working. Here is a link to people having this problem: http://www.fixya.com/support/t238623-lost_functionality.
I take very good care of my electronics and research a purchase like this thoroughly since I want to get a very good product that I can use for a long time. Until this problem cropped up, it was a pretty good camera overall. No complaints. I expect a quality product to last more than 1 1/2 years. Casio "customer service" will not tell you anything over the phone, except that you have to send it in and then they will tell you how much the repair will be. I will go back to a Canon or another reputable manufacturer with my next purchase.
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Great Camera with a lot of Flexibility
I own the z750 as well, and bought this one used after I broke the lcd screen on the 750. What I mainly like about this camera is the flexibility in shooting modes. Unlike the vast majority of pocket-sized digital cameras nowadays, this camera has a manual exposure mode. For most, that is not a big deal, but I really like that feature myself. They moved some features around from the 750, and created a aperature priority mode, a shutter priority mode, and manual exposure mode, all on the mode dial. I'm no expert photographer, but this flexibility has helped me take better long-exposure photos, or making HDR's with different exposures. One thing I like about these older Casio's is the format of the movies is MPEG. We bought one of the newer Casio models (since returned), and I did not like that they changed the format to Quicktime.
PROS:
-very simple controls. Once you learn the mode dial, everything is self-explanatory.
-shoots great pictures (8MP) with decent default settings.
-has most of the bells and whistles (and then some) that other compact digital cameras have.
-greater flexibilty than most pocket sized digicams\
-movies record in MPEG format, which is a nice all-purpose format.
CONS:
-an older model, slightly bulkier than today's compact cameras.
-screen is a little on the small side (2.5" lcd)
-movie quality seems to have gotten worse than on the previous model, z750.
Even though this camera is ancient now in 2008 (it came out in 2006, hah!), I still had to find a used one because I'm not as impressed with today's moron-point-and-click cameras that seemingly do all the thinking for you and take away all the flexibility in shooting. Yeah, I could get an SLR, but I'm looking for something I can take on a long hike, or put in my pocket, but still be able to get decent shots.
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Better and worse than ex-z750, but an outstanding p&s camera
I've owned both of these cameras for a couple of years, and I appreciate the optical viewfinder, excellent picture quality, large LCD, fast shutter delay, and manual operating modes. While I agree with the excellent review written by D.Nash praising the 850's virtues, I will say that the 850 does not take as good a picture as the 750.
I've done a considerable amount of testing and comparison, and with all auto settings at default, compared with the 750, the contrast and brightness are too high and the saturation is too low. The contrast and saturation are easily compensated, but the brightness adjustment requires a -0.3 EV setting that is not "sticky" - it isn't remembered when you turn the camera off. The only way to save this so that you don't have to reset it every time you turn the camera on is with your own Best Shot setting. This gives the desired results, but compared with the 750, which gets it correct right out of the box, this is an unfortunate inconvenience.
Do I prefer the 750? Probably not. The better LCD and additional flash settings are worth it. And the "lens error" problem seems to be gone on the 850. Too bad they didn't get the picture as good, though. And there's one feature lacking on both of these cameras, or I would consider them nearly perfect: no raw image mode.
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great little camera..when it works
I've had this camera for about two years. It has been wonderful. Easy to use, took great pictures, no complaints. A few months ago it started having problems turning off. I'd have to remove the battery when I was done taking pictures every once in awhile. This wasn't an all the time issue, so I dealt with it. Then last weekend at my son's wedding it just stopped. I was turning the camera off when it just froze up, lens still sticking out, and won't do a darn thing anymore. The battery is fully charged, I have never damaged the camera, and really can't justify spending the money to repair it when a new camera will set me back about the same amount. Just makes me sick.
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