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Casio Exilim EX-Z1080 Review
| Author | Cliff Smith |
| Published | 4th Mar 2008 |
| Manufacturer | Casio |
| Price | £112.17 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £129.00 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersThe monitor screen may be larger than average, but it's not particularly sharp at only 114,000 dots, and its viewing angle could be wider. However it is nice and bright, has a fast refresh rate, and is relatively glare-free even in bright sunlight. In common with the other models in the Exilim range, the Z1080 has a permanently-displayed on-screen menu which gives quick access to a range of often-used shooting options, including flash mode, AF mode, face detection setting, anti-shake mode, ISO setting, white balance and exposure compensation. As well as this, the functions of the left and right directions on the D-pad can be customised to provide instant control over a list of options, making the Z1080 extremely quick and easy to operate.
Although the Z1080 is designed as a point-and-shoot snapshot camera, it does have quite a wide range of useful features, including no fewer than 41 scene programs in Best Shot mode. It has several continuous shooting options including a three-shot burst mode with flash, a selection of AF modes including centre-spot, multi-spot and tracking AF, and of course the face recognition system. This has appeared before on several Casio cameras, and is certainly an amusing novelty. You can pre-program it with the faces of your friends and family, and it is supposed to recognise them in a group of other faces and focus on them as a priority. It does work, but in practice it is not particularly reliable.
Another feature that has also been seen on previous models is the YouTube video mode, which shoots VGA movie clips and encodes them in the H264 format used by the popular video sharing site. There is also a YouTube uploader program included in the camera's supplied software. However if you've ever uploaded a video to YouTube you'll know that you really don't need any special video formats of uploader programs to use it, so this feature is also mostly a sales gimmick.
The camera also has a number of rather more useful features in playback mode, including resizing, cropping and rotating, brightness, white balance and colour adjustment, dynamic range boost, perspective correction and multi-image print layouts. Viewing recorded images is also very quick, with the capability to scroll through 100 images in 10 seconds.
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Mark said on 1st May 2009
Gonzalo Vilaseca said on 3rd June 2009
I can't seem to find this camera in Spain, it seems as it has been discontinued. Is there a new equivalent model from Casio?
MRS S. SHERLOCK said on 25th June 2009
DO NOT BUY CASIO
I bought a Casio digital camera (Elixim Z80) and the zoom has never worked. I sent it off to the Casio repair centre as the camera has a two year wa... more
Robert McKenzie said on 27th June 2009
I bought this from Comets for £80 last year in a half price sale - best £80 i spent. I use it for a pocket camera to whip out if I see anything of interest to capture ... more
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To be brutally honest getting used to the 41 best shot modes is the hard bit. This does seem to be a hugely capable camera. On a ten day holiday I took 280 shots over a ten day p... more