Casio Exilim EX-F1 6MP 12x Zoom 2.8-Inch LCD Pro Digital Camera with CMOS Shift Image Stabilization (Black)

It comes with a 150 page manual. In readable (mostly) English. A zillion options. One very nice feature, you can program it to remember most settings. If you want the flash to stay off (which I need most of the time) you can set it to do that, even if you turn it off and on. It seems to have good sensitivity, the image stabilizer works quite well.As a still camera, about average. As a video camera, a lot for the money. It shoots normal video, HD (1080p, 60 Hz) and fast video, up to 1200 fps. Low resolution above 300 fps, good for things that go bump, not for fancy presentations. The 30-300 fps adjustable setting is not so convenient, you have to set the frame rate each time you shoot. It should be programmable. The 300 fps fixed setting has a resolution of about 512x390, good enough for most sports work.A comment on pixels. The Ex-F1 has a 6 Mp sensor. You can get a lot more than that for less money, but it's more marketing than real. You have to look at the sensor (CCD/CMOS) size. Real world lenses are limited to about 100 line pairs per mm in what they can resolve. Based on the specs for the Ex, it tries to get 200 lp/mm. So, not real. My little Olympus P&S is over 400 lp/mm. You just can't get there. Fewer pixels for a given chip size usually means better light sensitivy. That helps more than anything else.For my use, mostly in sports, a very good compromise. The CS prerecord mode is very good. You can get 60 full resolution frames before you press the shutter. It stores them in internal memory and saves after you press the shutter. So you can see what happened just before (up to 60 fps, programmable) With a 16Gbyte SD card, about $25, you can save over 4500 full resolution pictures.

I use this camera to capture the golf swing in 300fps @1/2000 mode. This allows me to analyze the golf swing in great detail. This is only for the stout of heart as it will reveal all the flaws of your perfect golf swing. Too bad it has gone out of sight price wise. I understand they quit manufacturing it.Picture wise it does not compete with my Sony A700 but then I didn't get it to take photographs. The HD video works good too.Old eyes have some trouble with focus as no auto focus in HS video mode.Newer models are available less expensive and do the 240 fps HS video.

The Casio Exlim EX-F1 camera has the unique ability among consummer cameras of both high speed video (300 - 1000 frames per second at typical video resolution) and high speed, 6 mega pixel resolution at 60 frames per second for one second. If you need such speeds and good resolution provided by a low cost camera, this one fits the bill. If you do not need high speed, you will find many other lower cost cameras with otherwise adequate capabilities. But this one takes excellent pictures and provides clear views of rapidly evolving processes. An industrial camera of the same high speed and resolution capability may cost ten times as much as this Casio model.

I bought it for the HD SLO-MO. I wasn’t disappointed

I have to say this camera blew me away! The many features it has for the price is amazing. And the speed! Wow! Set multi pic's, press the button and in one second 60 pic's to save!It takes longer to save them than it does to take them.Highly recommend this camera.Rick Ming

Wow! I think we filmed 10- minutes of pouring milk from one glass to another and can't get over how cool it looks. This is a great camera.

Its the best camera i had it since 5 years and it always impress me

great for teaching golf. camera for stills is ok.