Casio Exilim EX-Z80 Digital Camera
The first thing that catch the eyes when holding the Casio Exilim EX-Z80 digital camera is its slim, sleek design and the stylish look. The weight and size are perfectly proportioned, with its smoothed surfaces give it a professionalism look and the overall feeling of the EX-Z80 is: a great digital camera.
The metallic body of the Casio Exilim EX-Z80 digital camera is attractive and stylish, with rounded corners and edges and they are available in six body colors — pale pink, vivid pink, green, blue, black, and silver. On the top is a small power button and the typical shutter release that comes in all digital camera. At the back, there is a large LCD viewfinder and rest of the controls, including the four-way menu navigation selector.
The EX-Z80 features the new Auto Shutter function (which uses motion blur detection technology) which can automatically take a photo at the instant when hand shake or subject movement creases. Users can also automatically capture the moment of a smile, the instant when subject movement due to panning ceases, or the moment when their own face fills the frame as they point the camera towards themselves.
The Casio EX-Z80 digital camera comes with 8.1 megapixel resolution, a 3x optical zoom lens and the Casio EXILIM Engine 2.0 high-performance image processing module. This further helps to enhance the quality of the photos being taken and reduce the noise level to its minimum. This model of the Casio digital camera can shoot the wide-format 848 x 480 pixel movies, and recording in MPEG-4/H.264 format which are compatible for YouTube and iPod.
The Casio EX-Z80 digital camera includes fun and playful design which user can select to replace the usual rectangular focusing frame. For example, if user selects a heart shape focus frame, when the subject is in focus, a clear heart shape is being displayed and when the image is not in focus, the heart shape will be break up. It is a useful tool which makes focusing more fun.
The EX-Z80 model can use face detection technology to simultaneously detect up to ten faces. All that is needed is to prerecord the faces of the people and the camera can recognized and prioritized them when determining correct focus and exposure. This feature will be extremely useful when it comes to taking big group photo and the camera can automatically focus on the selected faces of individual.
With the small price tag that the Casio Exilim EX-Z80 comes with, it must be must be one of the cheapest pocket cameras on the market. Overall, this is quite a decent camera, with more features then most entry level digital cameras.
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