Casio Casio Exilim EX-Z600

Casio Exilim EX-Z600

Casio Exilim EX-Z600 Review, by Tracey Capen July 26, 2006

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• Latest User Reviews 2 reviews
• Reviewed by: joeydad

  Duration of ownership: 4 Days

  Overall: Camera and computer would not communnicate. Customer service indicated they have problems with some computers. I returned it and purchased a Nikon coolpix P4

• Reviewed by: jfoxbox

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Easy to use, quick, good photos, nice and small- a very usable camera- absolutly great for travel.

  Weaknesses: Doesn't come with a long "handle". We had to get something longer to put this camera arouund the neck.

  Overall: What a great litttle travel camera. We took a trip to Europe, 17 day. My wife took this and I took my digital SLR. She kept hers around the neck the entire trip. It was easy to use, quick focusing, and a very good camera. Sher forgot the battery charger and made it through a 1 gb card before we had to buy another. Image stabalization was great. When we got home I compared our photos. While mine were a little sharper, for 8x10's we saw no difference. The convience of always having it ready and on the neck (it is very light and small) made me a little sorry I hadn't gotten one as well to travel with. Both camera's were 6 megapixel. In low light my camera allowed much better shots (evening concerts in Vienna), but after all is said and done, I would rather have taken a little Casio 600 instead. I saw no fringing in the photos, and will blow up and crop to get some 13x19 prints.

• Reviewed by: twoolf

  Strengths: Zoom (digital only) while taking video, Best Shot mode easy to use, unlimited length 400-600 video, charging USB cradle, large bright LCD

  Weaknesses: Unless I missed something, you have to enter best shot mode to change to video from stills. Also, need to select low light mode from best shot mode to shoot inside with low light.

  Overall: A compact attractive point and shoot that does it all. It has very easy to use controls (except noted issue with switching from stills to video). In low light mode, it takes OK pictures at 800 ASA inside if you hold the camera steady, and don't zoom in to much. The digital zoom works in movie mode, which if very rare in point and shoot cameras. There is no viewfinder, which doesn't both me, and this leaves more room for large and bright LCD display. The best shot mode, shows example pictures for all the different types of scenes, which makes it easy to decide on your mode. I don't know if it has manual aperture and shutter modes.The video looks very clear with TV resolution. I actually bought this camera to replace my old sony which had only low quality video mode.

• Reviewed by: SlowGoose

  Strengths: Small, easy to use

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall: Great camera. Really small, but with a huge view finder. Easy to use, but powerful. Great value for the money. Has all the features I need including 3x optical zoom.

• Reviewed by: woohee

  Strengths: very thin slim size camera of a pocket-sized one, big size of LCD, last longer battery life

  Weaknesses: Hand slip ness of very thin slim size camera, flashing makes Red dot on LCD.

  Overall: I am very satisfied with this camera. Carrying this one is very convenient and taking the picture is very easy after selecting option. After taking picture, it is very easy to watch it with a big screen. I am not sure the picture quality compared to other camera, because I am a novice to use this kind camera. However, it is excellent one for a beginner.

• Reviewed by: wang0771

  Strengths: Small. portable and very cool design

  Weaknesses: not find yet

  Overall: Very cool camera! Great gift for my wife when my first boy was born. She could easily carries it in her purse. Not testing it a lot. But the pictures look good to me!

• Reviewed by: wolfematt

  Strengths: Unphasable batteryFast Start-up and flash chargeOver thirty shooting modesVideo w/ sound is high quality

  Weaknesses: Buttons not the most intuitive, but still goodNo optical viewfinder (found on the ex-z750)

  Overall: This is my second digital (my first was a Fujifilm A340, which is discontinued). If you're going to get an Exilim camera, make sure you do the "trade in and trade up" offer available with Casio. The screen is nice, I haven't tried it in sunlight yet. I have yet to develop my prints, but I will use Kodak PerfectTouch for that. I have a Zen Vision:M, and this camera is actually smaller than my M. That probably means it's smaller than the 5th gen. iPod.Video and sound quality are surprisingly good. With a 2GB SD card, it allows me 26min./66/106 of HQ/NQ/SLP (High Quality/Normal Quality/SuperLongPlay). Yes, this camera works with a 2GB SD card. This camera's flash has worked very nicely, and even has a soft flash mode. The battery indicator still hasn't dropped below full and I've done 50-75 photos (most with flash, some with the rapid flash mode), a few 2min. videos, and a couple minutes of mic.A feature on this camera that really surprised me is the calendar mode, where you can scroll to a day on the camera's calendar and view all the pics/vids/sound you took that day.I recommend this camera because it's high quality, easy to use, and priced reasonably. I'll update on how the prints turn out.