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(More customer reviews)This is a great little point and shoot camera for candid shots. It's tiny, easy to clip onto your belt and carry it around all day. Large LCD screen, easy to navigate menus which gives you what you're looking for fairly quickly. It has many features not found on other similar models, some of which include a separate setting for brightness, contrast, and color saturation, manual focus, excellent white balance selection and easy to use manual white balance, auto ISO selection, and anti-shake. It has a collection of "Best Shot" images which are presets for the most common situations, including night shots, backlit, fireworks, and portraits - which have helpful comments to let you know what each preset does.
For close-up and indoor photos, this is a wonderful camera under a variety of lighting. Outdoor shots and landscape images do not quite sparkle as well as a high-end digital SLR, but only a professional photographer would be able to tell the difference. It blows away the built-in camera in your cell phone at any rate and is a must-have camera for vacation snapshots.
The USB charging cradle I'm not that crazy about. But, it's a simple matter to open battery/card slot and use a card reader to bring the images into a computer. It uses ordinary SD/MMC(+) cards. For making movies, the manual recommends high speeds memory cards at 10mb/sec or better to avoid dropouts. The movie quality and audio recording just blew me away when I played the movie on my computer. I purchased extra batteries and a charger from Impact, rather than using the cradle to charge the camera - but, that's a matter of personal preference. The camera allows you to quickly swap out the battery or the memory card if either becomes used up.
I found the outdoor images a bit flat, so am I still tweaking the contrast and saturation settings for the best images. I also have a rule to never use software which comes on the CD. My only complaint is that the full manual comes on the CD, but it can also be downloaded from Casio's website. Casio's customer service was quick and responsive when I asked them the maximum memory size for their flash cards. The manual mentions 1gig cards, but the latest model cameras can handle up to 4gig. Then again, 1gig cards will be faster for better quality movies.
I am using the camera for indoor candid shots and it's better than my professional digital camera in many respects for this type of photography. I can carry it on my belt since it's smaller than my cell phone. While it will not replace my professional digital camera, it has the ability to grab images which the big, heavy camera cannot. And while its not a professional camera, it has enough features to keep a professional photographer happy.
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