Casio Exilim EX-FC100 Digital Camera Review

Casio Exilim EX-FC100

Digital Camera Review

3.8 Casio has managed to squeeze the extremely high-speed photography and slow-motion video into the EX-FC100, which takes 9-megapixel images (or 6 megapixels at 30 frames per second) and records video at up to 1000 frames per second.  While it had some issues with image quality, the high speeds are a powerful draw.
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Playback Mode (8.25)


During playback, images can be zoomed up to 8x, while zooming out will take you to 25-image thumbnail mode. Pressing the Display button alters the amount of information on the screen, from image only, to basic playback information and finally full shooting info including histogram.

Playback Displays
Image Only
Basic Information
Full information
 
Zoom
Thumbnail

The Slideshow options are diverse. The slideshow can be set to all files, all images except continuous shutter ones, snapshots only or movies only, The interval can be set from 1-30 seconds, and the slideshow length from 1-60 minutes. There are five different transition effects, four of which have music attached. These can be replaced by music from your computer, but only IMA-ADPCM format WAV files, in mono.

In-Camera Editing (6.00)


The EX-FC100 has a wide variety of editing tools built into the camera: motion print, movie editing, white balance, brightness, rotate, resize, trim, copy, divide group, CS frame edit. Many of these are self-explanatory, though some deserve some extra discussion.

Motion print saves a frame from a movie file. Either a single frame is saved, or a composite image of nine-frames is created in a film strip frame visual. The movie editing tool trims a file to between two points. This camera also has the rare ability to adjust the white balance of an image, after it's been taken, and it can be shifted to any of the presets (daylight, overcast, shade, day white fluorescent, daylight fluorescent or tungsten).

Usually in playback, if images were recorded in continuous shutter/high-speed mode, they're lumped together while browsing. Divide group splits them into the individual shots, and CS (for Continuous Shutter) frame edit lets you use the editing tool on all of a group at once.

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The editing controls

 

Direct Print Options (2.50)


For DPOF, the number of prints to make from each image can be set, and a date can be imprinted on the file. Plugging directly into a PictBridge printer offers the same choices, plus the ability to change paper size. There is no way to print a proof sheet.

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