Casio Exilim EX-Z75 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Anti Shake Optical Zoom (Silver)

This camera goes really well alongside my Fuji s5200(digital) and Nikon F100(film). It's small and very powerful for what it does, and I'll tell you exactly what it does.

Turn the image quality, saturation, and sharpness all the way up, and set the contrast low if you want good landscapes and high if you like to capture lighting. What you will notice is that the jpegs are uncompressed and really close to raw images. there's no compact that does this, and its very very useful once you get used to the camera.

The camera is also very durable. I fell on mine in a concert and I'm 227 pounds and it barely cracked the screen and I had to return. Just recently I decided to get this one, because I missed having a compact on me and I'm back to loving it.

I bought this camera little over a year ago. It looked like a good camera, receiving excellent reviews.

I just wanted a point and shoot camera to document my everyday activities and it was decent. Most pictures would come out blurry despite fiddling with the settings. I have a shaky hand, so I blamed myself. So much for the stabilizer helping me out.
I also planned to use it for outdoor concert photos. So much for that. Any movement what-so-ever would result in poor quality pictures.
And the video microphone picks up so much random static when used it became pointless for me to bother trying.

The kicker that set me off about this camera was that the battery ended up dying after 6 months of sporadic use.

I gave this camera a chance, but I'm definitely not going to be purchasing another casio any time in the near future.

I bought this camera after reading all the positive reviews about this camera. I did note two recurring faults in the reviews but thought I could live with them.

1. fuzzy screen on the camera but it's just the camera's screen and still it makes great photos. This one I can live with.
2. poor design with very little/awkward hold-room makes dropping this camera inevitable. I thought the people who wrote this were klutzes but even small fingers will drop it. I now know that this is one I can't live with.

Two months after getting the camera, one day it just didn't turn on. It hadn't been dropped, wet, squashed, anything. Just nothing. So we sent it in to Casio for repairs. It was still under warranty and came back amazingly quickly working again. Great. Thought it was a fluke.

So one day I dropped it as should be expected with this particular camera. When dropped, this camera lands right on the extended lens. But doen't land perfectly and pushes in one side of the lens making it catawompus and unable to retract. After gently working on it I was able to realign the lens and the camera worked again fine. Two more drops, same thing, irritating but fixable. Now again, all of a sudden it's stopped working again out of the blue. I don't know if it's the dropping or the original problem. It's still under warranty and I'll send it in for repairs again, but the fact of the matter is when I pick up the camera I don't know if it's going to work or not. I'd hate to be on the trip of a lifetime or simply photographing a childs' blowing out birthday candles to have my camera suddenly stop working. This camera takes awesome photos and has terrific options but its unreliability make it no longer the camera for me.

Let me begin by saying that while I was shopping for a camera this was the one that looked sleek and sylish with an attractive price. The main disappointment is the picture is grainy mostly taking inside pictures. I find myself wanting to take outside pictures because they do come out sharp but if you are looking to take natural looking pictures without the flash-they will come out grainy. Even when you choose the option to shoot without flash in natural light-it still doesn't work. When I do use the flash indoors it seems to be too strong--I have also played with the the flash power with no avail. The lithium battery is a big plus - long life and charges quickly- I do wish the battery entry would be elsewhere since it opens easily sometimes when taking pictures-Overall I think it's a good camera with great price

The optics on this camera leave a lot to be desired. Images are not crisp, rather they tend to look soft and a bit out of focus. With 7 megapixels you would expect very good detail but I got better, clearer pictures from my old Canon 4 megapixel camera. This camera is ok if you don't care too much about the details, but if you're taking pictures that you really care about, go with something else.