Casio Exilim EX-FH20 Digital Camera Review

Casio Exilim EX-FH20

Digital Camera Review

Nov 10, 2008 - By Tim Barribeau
2.2 The Casio Exilim EX-FH20 is the new, super-fast, ultra-zoom released by the manufacturer who made waves with the more expensive EX-F1 earlier this year. The FH20 sports a 20x zoom, the ability to take 40 frames per second at 7-megapixels, or record super-slow-motion video at up to 1000 frames per second. However, once we got the camera into our labs, we found the body to be low quality, the auto focus was slow, it went through batteries at an incredible rate, and it scored poorly in our testing. Full details follow.
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Speed/Timing
Speedy performance is important for any camera, but especially one that promotes its speed-demon capabilities as much as the FH20. All tests were shot with a high-speed SD card, so memory bottlenecks didn't affect the outcome.
 
Startup to First Shot (5.97)
The FH20 takes a surprisingly long time to boot up. From pressing the power button to being able to take the first shot, it averaged just over 4 seconds (more if you forget to remove the lens cap). This isn't a camera you're going to be able to whip out at a moment's notice to grab that special shot.

Shot-to-Shot (9.97)
This is where the FH20 shines, as we were able to confirm the promised 30 frames per second at 8-megapixels resolution and 40 at 7 megapixels. These speeds were so fast that we actually had trouble measuring it. Though, strangely, there is no continuous shutter speed at all for full 9-megapixel resolution shooting.


Shutter-Shot (10.00)
As one would hope from a modern camera, there is essentially no delay between pressing the shutter button, and an image being taken.


Processing (10.70)

This is a measure of how quickly the camera displays an image on the LCD after taking a picture. The FH20 took, on average, 0.8 seconds to save the image and show it to you, which is definitely on the speedy side of things.

 

 

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