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Cameratown.com

Digital Photography Review

Casio is, like most Japanese multi-national companies, almost a conglomerate with a whole lot of product lines.  It started out with calculators and watches (thing G-Shock) and now is putting it’s strength into cameras.  In the same way that it put a GPS into a wristwatch and sold at an affordable price, this time the innovation is almost on that scale, and relatively less pricey.  A $700+ 10 megapixel camera with full HD capability, high speed burst speed on stills, and slow motion capture on video.

With the release of the newest model of its Exilim series of cameras, the Casio Exilim Pro Ex-FH20, it’s showing innovation in unexpected ways.  Among other things, this camera is fast.  It has a burst mode of 40 frames per second on 7 megapixels.  It is so fast, it can take a picture even BEFORE you press the shutter button. It stores the images in the camera and you can choose which pictures to save.  This means that even if you missed the picture you can still recover it.

It is so fast, it can capture video at 30fps for full HD quality 1280×720; 210fps at 480×360; 420fps at 224×168; and 1000fps at 224×56.  That is faster than a speeding bullet.  We’re no longer talking about catching a drop of water in the air, but of seeing a bullet pass through a balloon before the balloon bursts.  Well almost.  But you get the drift.

Usually when a camera comes along boasting something extraordinary, most other features would pale in comparison.  Except that this camera also has a 20x optical zoom, equivalent to 26mm to 520mm on a standard SLR.  Casio is serious about this camera.  It uses a CMOS sensor which allows it to capture images faster.  And to round it off, it also has a high-speed anti-shake function, as well as a high-speed night scene setting (a natural result of the anti-shake setting).

Priced at £399 in the UK, it should weigh in at around $700 to $750 in the United States.

Official website:  Casio Press Release