Casio - EX-S880 digital camera Review

On our recent vacation, we were finally able to get a lot of use out of our Casio EX-S880 Digital Camera.  A nice red colored camera that was a gift, it is extremely light-weight, easy to use, and produces a brilliantly vivid picture that will simply blow you away if you aren't ready for it.  Not only that, but the camera does most of the work for you, adjusting to light, taking into account shadows, and focusing on nearly anything you want in the potential photograph.  The auto tracking feature that the camera has will get everything in focus for you, and the embedded face recognition feature will assist you in picking someone out of the crowd of people on screen.  This is extremely great to have, because the camera can focus on a person, and even if they move while you are taking the picture, it will continue to focus to get the best possible picture before it actually commits.  That is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this Casio though, as it has even more to offer than that.

If you have flipped the camera around, the first thing that is really going to catch your eye is that the screen is so large.  With a camera that is only 3.72 inches wide, the LCD screen takes up 2.8 inches of that space.  So you can basically say, that the space allocated to all the bells and whistles on the back is well used, and there isn't any wasted area.  Next to that screen you also have your toggle controls, menu button, and the recording button for if you want to take advantage of the video-recording options on this little electronic devise.  Recording on the video mode, you get to take advantage of their MPEG-4 video compression, which gives you a really clear picture while removing any white noise during the playback, and couples that with a compatibility that works with nearly all file sharing programs.  That way once your recording is done, you have no problem taking it off the camera for playback on something like your computer or television.

When the camera says that it is "8.1 Megapixels" that means that it can view 8.1 million pixels in high resolution, which gives you a very detailed photograph.  It's a high number for a camera of this size and price, and works towards providing larger photographs when you download them on to your computer.  Think of it as being the more pixels that you have, the better the picture is going to look when you blow it up in size.  Some cameras are good at 2 or 3 megapixels if you don't want it much larger than the view screen, but you want something like what this camera can provide if you want an extremely vivid presentation.  On the camera you have a zoom button (3X Optical) that lets you really get close to your subject through the lens, without having to get that close in person.  This zoom can be further amplified to a level of 12x on the highest resolution it offers.  Having the combination of a great zoom function and this many megapixels gives you a camera that will get the job done no matter what.

This camera was really a great gift, and has performed perfectly since the day it was taken out of the box.  You get a cradle to charge it, a nice lithium rechargeable battery, the cables, adapters, power cords, and instructions on how to use it with the camera.  You will have to purchase a separate memory card to keep all of your pictures on, because the internal memory doesn't have enough space to really accommodate as many pictures as you will want to take with the camera.  There are just so many great things I can say about this camera from its crystal clear pictures and videos, to its quick shutter speed while taking a picture, to the face recognition capabilities and high level of zoom functionality.  Putting all of these features into one little camera that is easy to use, quite flashy with the nice red coloring, and simply a treat to take picture with ends up giving you a digital camera that will last for years.  Well worth the price it sells for at many electronics stores, this is one of the fanciest cameras I have used, and one product that Casio should be proud that they produced.  Recommended both for the person on the go, and the weekend adventurer.