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Summary: Great for the price, SO small
Review: This is a great, very small, pocket camera. It has served me well, I have now had it for a year, and find it to be very dependable and accurate. The pictures are either awesome, or grainy, one of the two. They're pretty much always great with the occasional lemon, but thats probably due to me not focusing it correctly. The LCD is great, 2 inches, but sometimes looks like there's that "snow" on the screen which is weird, but it still functions. My only HUGE gripe with it is this: When you look through the viewfinder (the glass viewer, NOT the LCD) the image you see in there is smaller then the actual image that comes out. So if you took a picture of a ruler, looking through the glass it would be say six inches, and you snapped the picture. It would really come out showing about 10 or 12 inches! not the picture you thought you took, however the LCD is accurate. Its great, buy it if you want a really nice small camera for the price.
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Summary: Great camera terrible picturess
Review: Just bought the Z40 model here in the UK, and did my market research afterward rather than before. I decided that on balance for my girlfriends needs that I had probably bought the best camera for the job, and although I find it just a bit too small to hold properly, Girlfriend loves it and it is impressive in almost every important area except that all our pictures are terribly out of focus in a circular region all around the image. It's nowhere near as good as our old Kodak 2MP Camera for image sharpness and so dissapointing we are taking it straight back to the store. It's like a great big blur filter has been applied by some retouching software, only it hasn't. I took a shot in the shop when I bought it and when we printed it out at home it shows the problem superbly. It's completely unacceptable, and I can't believe people would put up with it. Perhaps it's faulty. Probably will go for a Cannon, or anything with bigger better optics.
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Summary: Handy product with big LCD, but NO VIDEO RECORDING
Review: 4 Months and it broke?! I tried to get the warranty and was told that I had to pay more than the cost of the Camera Itself. I also noticed that there were several identical cameras with the same defect (The lenses) in the service center.... What a piece of junk and what a terrible service of CASIO..
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Summary: don't use the digital zoom
Review: I bought this little diddy for my parents for Christmas. Part of the reason that I chose this one was the ease in using since my parents are not gadget smart. They have taken some really awesome pictures but the main fault that I see is the digital zoom. Once you pass the little red line that indicates the change from optical zoom to the digital zoom, you end up with really grainy pictures. So don't buy this or any camera for the added digital zoom in my opinion. Although I will say that my parents were unable to really notice the grain difference between the optical and digital zoom until I pointed it out. I have borrowed this camera for a vacation and found that if I didn't go into the digital zoom it worked great. I did hand the camera over to a guy to take a picture of my hubby and I and it turned out really grainy. Since I didn't have time to question the man about his technique, I have no idea what happened. It was an indoor picture and over and over I have heard the theme of bad indoor pictures. When using the flash you have to be just perfectly distanced from the subject or you will be under-lit or over-lit. (Dark and grainy or whitewashed and spooky) I have seen a very slight amount of red eye that most people don't really notice when looking at the pictures but that's just me. I love the fact that the Casio doesn't require hours of lessons to start out using it. Otherwise it would have been a horrible camera for my parents. The black and white photos are really incredible too. I grew up with film that was only color and never got accustom to looking at a subject and determining whether the composition would do well in black and white or not. I believe this camera is a great way to experience the best of both color and black and white. In fact I have had some shots in both and the b/w look the best. Since no camera is perfect for everyone I gave this a 4 out of 5 stars, but it is definitely very close to perfect. Add movies to it and I'm sold...again.
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Summary: Horrible camera
Review: I have used many digital cameras and was attracted to this one because of its size and speed. Even at its highest quality settings, however, the pictures are terrible! Everything is out of focus and the color accuracy is aweful. Either the camera I purchased is defective or it is simply a really bad product. I'm returning mine to the Casio to try to determine which it is.
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