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REVIEWS / POINT AND SHOOT / CASIO INDIA PVT LTD

Casio Exilim EX-Z600

25 May, 2007, 4:58 pm IST | Gagan Gupta | Point and Shoot

Features
This is where the camera really excels. Besides the 6 megapixel resolution and the 3x optical zoom, it offers you all the essential features that you'd want from a consumer digital camera.

To begin with, the best shot mode makes an excellent interface for a scene mode menu, complete with photographic examples of the kind of shots you can take in that particular mode. It's effective to the extent that I rarely had to refer to the textual captions to select the right mode. Even the video recording mode is included in the best shot mode, which is kind of weird, as I would rather have that in an option I can select with a simple flick of a switch.

Overall, the camera interface was highly responsive. Just a simple press of a button could make the action happen at high speeds, which is the way it should be. There's absolutely no delay in navigation so scene selection and going through options never really seem as a chore.

Even the manual feature on the Z600 is top notch. Besides the responsiveness, the manual focus option makes the most of its big screen, by giving you a full screen digital zoom to help you get a better focus. It's not the most accurate, but its a lot better than the windowed zoom preview that most other cameras give you.

You don't have control over the shutter speed or the aperture size, but you do have exposure compensation to mess around with, if you think the camera's not getting the right exposure.

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Tags: Casio , Exilim , EX-Z600 , digicam , digital camera , 6 megapixel

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