Exilim Pro
The Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 is a camera for the speed buff and adventurer. by Anne Jose
The Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 is a camera for the speed buff and adventurer. With an ultra high shooting speed of 60fps for still images and 1200fps for video with the EX-F1 you can be sure to capture every millisecond and slow down the action with high degree of detail.
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 300 fps fixed setting has a resolution of about 512×390, 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. Fewer pixels for a given chip size usually means better light sensitivy. That helps more than anything else.
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.
The 12X optical zoom and large lens just blow away most digital cameras. The slow motion (high speed) video is very good at 300fps. I have found that most outdoor sporting / action type activities are very well suited to 300fps slow motion 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.
With all of that said, the photo quality is pretty good, and the camera takes fast pictures. No lag time recording to the flash card at all. It’s also amazing to take 60 photos in 1 second. Astonishing. The abilities of this camera far outweigh those of ANY nikon on the market. It’s absolutely astonishing.
Source: www.coolgadgets4u.com
About the Author
Professionally a Software engineer. But have a great interest on Photography.
Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1
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