Casio Exilim EX-Z1050
Digital Camera Review
Jul 25, 2007
- By Emily Raymond
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At first glance, the Casio Exilim EX-Z1050 looks like every other digital camera and adds funky color choices; pink, blue, silver, and black. Look a little closer though, and you’ll see that it offers 10.1 megapixels – a spec that’s plastered on almost every surface of the camera. Besides that, the features are pretty basic: a 3x optical zoom lens and 38 Best Shot scene modes for a $269 price tag.
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| Likes |
- Accurate white balance
- Decent handling of noise up through ISO 400
- Comes in cool colors
- Lots of picture effects
- Very portable
- Lots of flash options
- Tracking auto focus |
| Dislikes |
- Poor color accuracy
- LCD resolution and limited viewing angle
- No power adapter
- Tiny buttons
- Lengthy menus
- No software for Macs
- Horrible burst mode |
Conclusion
The Casio Exilim EX-Z1050 follows up the older Z1000 with the same 10.1 megapixels and lackluster 3x optical zoom lens. The monstrous resolution is the headlining feature on the camera, but its features are otherwise quite tame. The Z1050 is still just another compact point-and-shoot that takes substandard pictures – it just takes them at an enormous size. Hooray, you can now print enormous posters of your blurry action shots and unnaturally lit portraits. The camera has a few highlights though, such as the vast amount of in-camera effects and the useful auto focus tracking mode, but that doesn’t make up for the cheap components, tiny buttons, slow burst mode, or sub-par movies. Not to mention the zillions of pictures taken and deleted because they looked blurry, discolored, fuzzy, and distorted. Simply put: $269 is way too much to pay for this camera even if it is the cheapest 10-megapixel camera on the market.
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