Casio Exilim EX-F1
Digital Camera Review
Jan 08, 2008
- By Emily Raymond
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The Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 made its long-awaited debut at the CES show in Las Vegas after a little teaser at a show in Germany last August. A few months of Internet gossip included rumors that the F1 is an DSLR, but it is not. It’s a 12x compact ultra-zoom digital camera with a 6-megapixel CMOS sensor and sensor-shift image stabilization. Casio has some lofty claims for the F1: a 60 frame-per-second (fps) full-resolution Burst mode and Movie mode that captures up to 1,200 fps. The camera Casio showed off at CES is a pre-production model, so we could not evaluate its performance, and some of the features aren’t fully functional. Read on for our first look at one of the hottest new digital cameras, the $999 Casio Exilim EX-F1.
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Picture Quality / Size Options
The Casio EX-F1 has a 6-megapixel CMOS sensor that measures 1/1.8 inches. The sensor has 6.6 total megapixels.
The EX-F1 proves it’s a serious camera with its 2816 x 2112-pixel RAW file format. It uses the Digital Negative Format (DNG) that Adobe Systems endorses and recommends as a standard image file format.
There are also JPEG files in various image sizes: 2816 x 1872 (3:2), 2816 x 1586 (16:9), 2304 x 1728, 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200, and 640 x 480 pixels. In the Playback mode, the images can be resized to any size smaller than what it was recorded in.
Picture Effects Mode
Deep in the Recording menu are the picture effects, including Black & White, Sepia, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Pink, and Purple. There are also full-step +/- 2 adjustments for contrast, saturation, and sharpness in the same menu. Live views help users choose the color effects, but the other parameters are a shot in the dark. In the Playback mode, the white balance and brightness can be adjusted in images.
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