Casio EXILIM ZOOM EX-Z120 7.2 Megapixel

The EX-Z120 is the latest offering in Casio's EXILIM ZOOM line up and is designed to be user-friendly, fun, and convenient. It features CASIO's renowned EXILIM Engine with Anti Shake DSP, a high resolution 7.2 megapixel imager, 3x optical zoom lens and a 2.0-inch color LCD monitor. Housed in a compact, durable and lightweight aluminum body.

The Anti Shake DSP reduces blurring caused by shaky hands or moving subjects, while the Auto Macro and Quick Shutter functions ensure that photos are properly focused. High Sensitivity Mode produces clear shots with a bright background without the flash, even when lighting is dim.

The mode dial gives you quick access to the Easy, Program, Aperture priority, Shutter speed priority, Manual, Movie and 32 Best Shot scene modes. The Easy mode and menu use simple icons to make picture taking a snap for inexperienced users. The EX-Z120 features quick start-up and easily accessible direct buttons to switch between the capture and review modes.

The EX-Z120 runs on two AA batteries and captures up to 170 shots using "off the shelf" alkaline type cells - even more with rechargeable NiMH batteries. It has an Audio-Video port allowing quick and convenient image viewing on televisions. And features quick startup and a short release time lag which allows pictures to be taken almost instantaneously, so you never miss the important moments.

In addition to high resolution still images you can also capture VGA (640x480 pixels) motion video with audio at 28 frames per second. Using the "MOTION PRINT" function, movies can be converted into a series of nine images or just one snapshot for printing. Movies can be zoomed-in during replay. The "Movie Editing" operation offers three ways (beginning, middle, end) to cut unwanted scenes from a movie.

The camera has approx. 9.3 MB of built-in memory that is easily expanded using any size SD or MMC type memory cards. An easy operation copies images between a memory card and the built-in memory. You can customize key operations to assign recording mode, exposure compensation, white balance, ISO sensitivity or self-timer functions to the left/right controller buttons. These settings may be changed by simply pressing the left or right control button.

Today's digital photographers want to be able to print their photos easily and with no worries about the colors coming out right. The EX-Z120 is PictBridge compatible, just plug it directly into any Pictbridge-enabled photo printer and makes prints without the need of a computer. For those using a computer, the images are industry standard ExifPrint (Exif 2.2) and PRINT Image Matching III compliant.

It's a good camera with Casio's brand name behind it. It powers on and off quickly and zooms in and out very fast too. The size is comfortable for grips and does not shake while clicking, a very important requirement for these type of digital cameras.

Takes very good pictures in daylight, quite reasonably good without flash in artificial light too, but you have to be careful not to shake your hands!

Quite fall resistant, fell a few times from my pocket, didn't see any major scratch mark!

There are a few issues though, the SD card does not pop-up easily and needs to be carefully gripped and pulled out. Rarely the battery door may get stuck with batteries inside. Be very careful to pry it open slowly so as not to damage the body.

The optical zoom moves the lens in and out quickly, but the digital zoom takes a few moments to kick in.

Flash seems to turn on all the time, too bright on very close range, causing a glare.

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I bought the camera used from Ebay. Shipper was great fast and camera was as described. Took 1 round of pics which were very good. Then took it a few days later to capture a fresh snow fall and the camera powered on then off and has never powered back up. I thought it was the cold draining the batteries so waited to get home changed batteries but still no power on. I will check with a repair shop to see what gives. Really sad about this because the pics and options are great.

Excellent camera....takes very sharp pictures....very short time between flashes...would definitely recommend