THIS IS AN INDIPENDET REVIEW AFTER 10 DAYS OF OWNING THIS NEW CASIO DIGITAL CAMERA
Casio has unveiled the EXILIM Zoom EX-Z400 digital camera that features Dynamic Photo function technology and a 12.1 megapixel sensor.
Some key features for the Casio EXILIM Zoom EX-Z400:
-12.1 megapixel sensor
-4x optical wide angle zoom lens (28 - 112mm)
-3″ LCD screen
-Image stabilization
-Dynamic Photo function
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My previous owned cameras:
Canon A-10 in 2003; Canon A-80 in 2004; Casio Exilim S-600 in
2006 . That one was so GOOD that I ordered another one for my daughter
and one for my son.
I needed one for making footage of my music videos. The room where I
record is small so I needed a camera with a wider angle. I purchased
Canon Ixus IS 850. That one was a disaster. Movies had a terrible
noise - not acceptable for music video) the disfoming wide angle made
everyone on the picture look fat. So that one had to go.
So a month after I sold that on on Ebay and bought Casio
Exilim S-770 in 2007. That one was perfect and I bought another Exilim
S-770 for my friend in South Carolina.
So following the developments I just bought myself for my birthday the
new Casio Exilim z-400
Test Casio Exilim
Z-400
The picture quality is reasonable. It is even better than expected. I
was surprised that there was no MACRO setting for close pictures. The
Macro pictures were although reasonable anyway but still not as good
as with my previous Casio Exilim S-770.
Lot of professionals would say that the picture would be unusable with
higher ISO than 400 and I do agree with that. But since I am not a
professional photographer I can live with that idea and try to shoot
as much as possible outside, relying on the daylight and not being too
difficult about expectations of miscues pictures I usually make on my
travelling tours where I have to travel light and easy, able to store
as much photos and videos and capture people and places I visit.
Problem making the videos : Standard and HD mode
The immediate problem is now in making a simple video of my piano playing. I made first movies outside in the daylight and they looked wonderfully sharp with good colors. But after I tried a few more videos with my piano students the picture was fine only the sound stopped after 15-50 seconds.??? WHAT THE HECK?
Strange was that the video continued rolling. I see a big problem that videos have a 10 minute limits without being able to give you a warning of how much space there is left on the card.
So I changed a new SDHD card that has the highest speed. Alas, there was no change what so ever.
Here is a video I made and unfortunately it is a complete DISASTER.
The sound is not synchronized with the picture. Just not acceptable for me.
You can view this video here ...
I hope Casio is going to accept this camera going back and send me a decent one that makes good videos in 28mm wide angle together with a normaly expected sound and picture!
Greetings and have fun with buing a new digital camera
PS you can view the old videos made from 2004-2009 on my website and YouTube channel
Please write your comments to lapianissima@yahoo.com and I will place them here later on.