Casio Exilim EX-FH20 - Expert Reviews

Pros: High-speed features work as promised ; comfortable body design ; lots of features for experimentation

Cons: Occasionally annoying to use ; mediocre photos for the money ; eats batteries, storage

Verdict: Equal parts fun and frustrating, the Casio Exilim EX-FH20 is an adequate megazoom camera with a couple of truly novel features.

Pros: Amazing, and unique, high speed still and movie capture ; Full complement of manual and automatic features ; Image adjustment, including white balance, available in playback ; Generally good shooting performance ; High-resolution, 3.0 inch LCD ; ...

Cons: Images are relatively soft and image noise creeps in even at mid-ISOs ; Purple fringing is noticeable along high contrast edges ; Lens distortion at telephoto ; Image stabilization offers only slight benefit at full telephoto

Verdict: At its core, the 9.1 megapixel, CMOS-sensor equipped EX-FH20 meets or exceeds the definition of an ultrazoom camera. Its 20x optical zoom lens starts at what is becoming the wide-angle norm of 26mm and extends to 520mm (35mm-equivalent). Sensor-shift ...

Review summary: High-speed photography undoubtedly has its uses. Before cameras could capture a quick succession of images, no one knew what led to the crack of a whip, for example, nor the order in which a galloping horse's hooves hit the ground. But with these ...

Pros: 1,000fps video and 40fps photography is great fun

Cons: How many people will use it enough to justify the price

Review summary: At first glance, the Casio Exilim EX-FH20 ($599) may look like just another super zoom camera. It has a big lens (20X), a 9 Megapixel sensor, a 3-inch LCD, manual controls, RAW image support, and all the gimmicks you'd expect on a modern digital ...

Pros: 20X optical zoom lens, with great 26 - 520 mm range ; Sensor-shift image stabilization ; Stunning ultra high speed continuous shooting and movie modes ; handy precapture feature ensures that you don't miss a shot ; Large 3-inch LCD display ; easy to ...

Cons: Images are soft/fuzzy, with smudged details, even at ISO 100 ; image quality drops rapidly at ISO 200 and above ; Expensive ; Strong purple fringing at times ; Autofocus system often struggled to lock focus ; no multi-point AF feature ; Slow startup ...

Verdict: One camera I really wanted to put on the above list is the Kodak EasyShare Z980. Unfortunately, battery life numbers are not available yet for that camera. In the group of cameras that remain, the Exilim EX-FH20 turns in strong numbers, coming in ...

Review summary: In March of this year, Casio released the EXILIM Pro EX-F1, the world's fastest digital camera*. The EX-F1 is capable of ultra-high speed burst shooting at 60 fps and can record high speed movies at up to 1,200 fps, helping users catch each decisive ...

Verdict: *As of September 16, 2009, based on a Casio survey for consumer market digital cameras