23Dec/050
Got Casio Exilim EX-Z750 Digital Camera
My new Z750 arrived today from NewEgg, complete with 1GB 66x SD card.
First impressions:
- It’s tiny!
- It’s fast!
- Auto white balance sucks in incandescent light. Exposures had yellowed look about them. Switching to the Tungsten white balance setting fixed it
- Noise at ISO 400 is appalling.
- Shutter priority mode seems rather weak. Camera selects between one of two possible aperture values, and always chooses ISO 50. Forcing ISO 200 is an improvement, but still underexposed.
- When you power off, the previous manual settings are forgotten, which I hate. I often have to re-set shutter speed, exposure correction, and ISO mode with each power cycle.
- Movie mode is pretty good; video quality is decent, and audio is..well..audible.
That said, I was able to take some pretty decent flash pictures in a dimly lit room at night. I haven’t used it enough yet to determine if I’m happy with it or not. It’s certainly not worse than my SD60, and the runner up, the Canon PowerShot SD550, has no manual mode at all, so there really isn’t much alternative.