Review on 📷 Casio Exilim EX-F1: Professional Digital Camera with 12x Zoom, 6MP, CMOS Shift Image Stabilization in Black by David Boone

Comes with a 150 page manual. Readable (mostly) English. A million options. A 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 so even if you turn it off and on again. The sensitivity seems to be good, the image stabilizer works quite well. About average as a camera. As a camcorder, a lot even for that much money. It records normal videos, HD (1080p, 60Hz) and fast videos up to 1200 fps. A low resolution above 300 fps is good for things that break, but not for fancy presentations. The adjustable setting of 30-300 frames per second is not very practical, you have to set the frame rate every time you take a picture. It must be programmable. A fixed setting of 300 fps has a resolution of around 512 x 390, which is good enough for most athletic work. A comment on pixels. Ex-F1 has a 6 MP sensor. You can get a lot more for less, but that's more marketing than reality. You need to look at the sensor size (CCD/CMOS). Real lenses are limited in their resolution to about 100 line pairs per mm. Based on the Ex specs it's trying to get 200 l/mm. So not real. My little Olympus P&S has over 400 l/mm. You just can't get there. Fewer pixels for a given chip size usually means better sensitivity to light. It helps more than anything. For my use, mainly in sports, a very good compromise. The CS pre-record mode is very good. You can get 60 full-resolution images before you press the shutter button. It saves them to internal memory and saves them after you press the shutter button. So you can see what happened just before (up to 60 fps, programmable). You can store over 4,500 full-resolution images on a 16GB SD card (about $25).