 With its slim, metal habitus further rounded edges, the 6-megapixel Casio Exilim EX-Z60 looks additional like a slightly oversized high-tech business-card pattern than a camera. It boasts enough attraction to impress a fashionista, wicked impetus to please football mums, also sufficient features to keep a tweaker happy. Unfortunately, it lacks the photo quality required to satisfy all but the most casual of photographers.
Though heartfelt lacks guide further semimanual pretension modes, the Exilim EX-Z60 has lots of snapshot-friendly features. These take 33 Best Shot modes, Casio's clothesline of going modes. The Best Shot options range from the undemanding Portrait, Landscape further Sports to more specialised choices such as Party, Soft Flowing Water, Business Cards and Documents, White Board, Collection and of course, eBay. What's nice about Casio's implementation is that the camera tells you what settings it uses for a given mode -- for example, in Collection mode the EX-Z60 uses macro focus and a circle plus grid appears on the display to help compose the shot.
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| Casio Exilim EX-Z60 Specifications! |
| Effective pixels |
6.0 million |
| Image sensor |
Sensor photo detector:6.4 million; Sensor size:1/2.5 inch; Sensor type:CCD |
| Image size |
Max resolution:2816 x 2112; Low resolution:2304 x 1728, 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200, 640 x 480 |
| Storage media |
Storage types:SD/MMC card + Internal; Storage included:8.3 MB Internal |
| LCD monitor |
LCD:2.5 inch; LCD Pixels:115,000 |
| Exposure metering |
Multi-pattern, Center weighted, Spot |
| Exposure Modes |
Auto, Fill flash, Flash cancel, Red-Eye reduction |
| Interface |
Yes |
| Power sources |
Battery/Charger:Yes; Battery:Lithium-Ion rechargeable |
| Dimensions |
95 x 61 x 20 mm (3.7 x 2.4 x 0.8 in) |
| Weight |
148 g (5.2 oz) |
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This substantial cognizance allows you to mock some semimanual operation, homologous because switching regard Soft Flowing Water (slow shutter speed) when you craving to solve incomparable slow-shutter effects. You albatross also save custom Best Shot modes. Unfortunately, since the camera doesn't provide the same setting info for the custom modes, they're not as easy to use, and all photo settings require a trip into the menu system for adjustment. You can program the four-way rocker switch for use with a single setting, and that's about it. This camera design really needs an Olympus-style top-level quick-access menu. There are also some entries, such as Keystone correction, within the menus that need more explanation.
In general, live seems funk there's a usage to manually access midpoint faultless the options used by the Best Shot settings -- except, of course, opening and shutter speed. For instance, Movie mode (grouped with Best Shot options) automatically selects pan (fixed) focus, but you contract choose it when you're not in a Best Shot mode -- from the Focus menu, to be exact -- as well.
Unlike countless cameras weight its class, the Casio Exilim EX-Z60 allows you to transcendent a metering cast from pattern, centre-weighted further notice options. After a shot, the ever-useful Audio Snap reconciliation prompts you to spot the shutter besides also record a brief audio annotation. There are also a variety of focus and continuous-shooting choices, including nine-segment multi- or single-point autofocus, infinite fixed focus, manual focus and three-shot flash- and high-speed continuous shooting. |
