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Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 Review

The Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 offers high quality 8.1 megapixels and includes 3x optical zoom and 8x digital zoom giving a 24x total zoom when combined.

Available in silver, the high resolution Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 is both stylish and compact and is powered by a super life battery which can support 440 shots per charge. It is ready for action in approximately 1 second, with flash off. The Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 also includes some new flash functions to cover different situations such as; soft flash which eliminates overexposure, high power which gives sufficient light to far away subjects and rapid flash which will give 3 flashes in 1 second. Basic flash functions still remain available and these include auto, off, on and red-eye reduction.

Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 Front
Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 Back

The Casio EX-Z850 latest technology includes the useful Revive Shot function. This means that old photographs that you have in your album can be reshot and faded colours enhanced.

Images can be easily viewed, even outdoors, on the large 2.5" bright TFT LCD display which also includes optical viewfinder. Subjects will be easily seen even under low light conditions and the high speed playback gives an 0.1 second interval release time lag.

Recording modes are various within the Casio Exilim EX-Z850 and include still image, still image with audio, voice recording and TV quality movie with audio (MPEG-4, VGA) with a card slot for SD/MMC.

Choice of focus modes in the Casio EX-Z850 include; manual, macro, infinity, auto, pan and contrast AF with focus range from 10cm (manual), from 40cm (normal) to 10cm - 50cm (macro). White balance choices are auto, manual and fixed which has a choice of six modes, ISO on automatic or manual will give between 50 and 400. The EXILIM engine features the Anti Shake DSP which can eliminate blurring of photos caused by a moving subject or shaky hand and ISO is at 1600 when this is employed.

The one touch EX button means that it is easy to make any manual adjustment of settings via the screen and movies can be edited on the Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 with images being reviewed as 9 image display, slideshow, album, calendar.

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Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 Specifications & Features

  • 8.1 Megapixels
  • 3 x Optical Zoom
  • 8 x Digital Zoom
  • 24 x Combined Zoom
  • 10cm Focusing Distance
  • Automatic, Fixed (6 modes) and Manual Switching White Balance Settings
  • 2.5" TFT, approx. 115,200 pixels
  • Auto, Manual-On, Manual-Off, Red Eye-Reduction, Strong Flash and Soft Flash Flash Modes
  • Maximum Image Size 3264 x 2448 Pixels
  • 640 x 480, 30fps Movies up to Capacity of Memory Card
  • SD Memory Card, Multi-Media Card - with 8MB internal memory
  • Rechargeable Li-ion Battery
  • Approximate Weight 130g

Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z850 User Reviews

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Reviewer: Jay Kaminski - UK
This is a great camera, if you only want to use it during the day. I have found that it will not take any pictures at night, even with the flash on. It just doesn't like it, it's almost too technical. I think that this then means that you can only use the camera for half of the day! I have even tried playing around with the setting to get it to take pictures at night, but it always says that it is under exposed and wont take the photo. I have used other cameras at the same time and they take the photo and it comes out great........

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Rating 8/10
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Reviewer: Sophie Browne - UK
Bought this camera just before going on holiday to the States and so far have not found anything not to like. I have some great photographs to remember my trip by and these weren't difficult to produce. There's lots of features with this camera and to really get the most out of it you should read the manual. Whilst I was away I found that I could easily use the camera as is but, when I got home and read through the manual properly, I was surprised at how much more I could do.

Well worth buying

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Rating 10/10
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Reviewer: George Archer - UK
I thought I would make a comment about this camera because unfortunately it seized up on me shortly after I started to use it but because write-ups have been so favourable perhaps mine was a one-off. I am sending it for repair so we will see.

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Rating 7/10
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Rating 3/10
Reviewer: Emma - UK
We bought this camera because the kids were growing up fast and we needed to have some good quality memories. It has been excellent so far.

Easy to use, fantastic pictures, good battery life and moving subjects (such as the kids) come out really well. It also pops easily into the 'bag that holds everything' and goes everywhere with us.

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Rating 9/10
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Reviewer: Tracie Young - UK
I can't find anything bad to say about this camera and would recommend it to anyone.

Not having lots of experience with cameras I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was able to operate this one easily as it is very intuitive. Because it is so small I take it everywhere with me and I have snapped some interesting moments which have come out as excellent quality photos.

Dowloading to my computer isn't difficult either and I am building up a great album.

Definitely worth buying.

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