Any EX-F1 single images?

Has anyone seen any single-shot images from the EX-F1? Given that it's a new CMOS sensor, I'd think Casio would be posting some samples to generate interest.

I've looked at samples from past Casio cameras on Pbase and the quality seems highly variable to me. Different sensors, different engines, different resolutions -- I concluded they probably don't have any relevance to the new EX-F1.

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Darrell

There are no full size image examples! come to think of it there is very few examples which really prove anything about this camera, I think it's not real actually!

tameside said:

I think it's not real actually!

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It's a very interesting fake!

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Darrell

LMAO. Expect samples on the official site within the next 2 weeks.
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Heading out for band photography and capturing everything in-between.

Within the next 2 weeks! that ends tomorrow!

Only joking, but samples are painfully slow in coming, actually non-existant apart from a couple of suspect ones from Urke.

Officially it is coming and I think the plan is to get as many on pre-order as possible therefore people will be buying on spec and wihout facts.

Personally I wouldn't touch it at £750 until I've seen some samples, irrespective of wether I can catch the exact frame of the ball perfectly on a footballers head!

It's still only in the prototype stage, so even if samples were out, theyre unlikely to be respective of the final models' output...

Don't expect anything which gives a good impression of the image quality until it actually launches - though, being honest, there has to be some trade-off with fps speeds that quick??

jiks said:

It's still only in the prototype stage, so even if samples were out,
theyre unlikely to be respective of the final models' output...

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I know that this will produce a laugh but I thought the camera was for release in March? So, if this is the case, then it is another Sigma DP1 re-run of false starts? Otherwise it must be further down the track and thousands of "prototypes" would be boxed and being shipped even as we ramble on.

It might suit Casio to flog the camera's unique feature which is its high frame rate and thereby disguise the fact that it is a fairly large prosumer camera competing in size with dslr's. Maybe they are not so keen to have their single frame "stills" analysed just yet?

jiks said:

Don't expect anything which gives a good impression of the image
quality until it actually launches - though, being honest, there has
to be some trade-off with fps speeds that quick??

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I cannot see why the image quality would be any less than any other 6Mp small sensor camera - in this day and age it should be pretty good. However the size of the camera and the fact that it out shoots the dslr brigade in frame speed must lead to an inevitable comparison with what a larger sensored dslr can do.

IMHO I would say that in good conditions the image difference would need a micrometer-like inspection to tell but (as usual) the relative image quality similarity will fall off as the conditions and light deteriorate.

The dslr manufacturers must be watching the EX-F1 with some interest if not apprehension. Look forward to many articles comparing high speed (for dslr) shoot offs between the likes of the Canon 5D or 40D and the F1. Followed by pushing each type of camera to its technical limits with still shots.

They might well be unfair to the F1 as it is what it is - a small-sensored 6mp speed demon - it is not an APS-C sized or "Full-sized" sensored camera. High ISO will be satisfactory for me but not for many others who are bound to fnd fault.

One of the reasons why the F1 is so large is probably because of the need to fit a high-capacity battery due to its high image rate duty cycle. Otherwise look forward to pocket-camera examples with the same frame rate sometime soon.

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Tom Caldwell

Tom Caldwell said:

One of the reasons why the F1 is so large is probably because of the
need to fit a high-capacity battery due to its high image rate duty
cycle.

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I've looked at the various online photos where the F1 is being held in someone's hand and it doesn't look "so large" to me -- certainly not as large as the new Fuji S100FS or my 10D. The lens barrel is disproportionately large, but the camera body seems to be sort of mid-size, maybe a shade smaller than the new Oly E-420. I hope my impressions are right -- a bit more info from Casio would do wonders.

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Darrell

Darrell Spreen said:

Tom Caldwell said:

One of the reasons why the F1 is so large is probably because of the
need to fit a high-capacity battery due to its high image rate duty
cycle.

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I've looked at the various online photos where the F1 is being held
in someone's hand and it doesn't look "so large" to me -- certainly
not as large as the new Fuji S100FS or my 10D. The lens barrel is
disproportionately large, but the camera body seems to be sort of
mid-size, maybe a shade smaller than the new Oly E-420. I hope my
impressions are right -- a bit more info from Casio would do wonders.

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Darrell

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Darrell

If we dig-deep on the Casio site there is some useful information in this regard:

http://www.exilim.com/intl/ex_f1/spec.html

My take is that it is sub-dlsr in size but still fairly bulky.

Backtrack from this link and you will find that Casio have covered the camera fairly well - the first link in from the general site is not all that helpful.

The battery may be a Fuji camcorder battery - it has the same designation number - if so it is commonly available and cheap as a cloned item.

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Tom Caldwell

Darrell

Had a quick look - you or others might like to look a bit more deeply but:

Seems smaller than Panasonic FZ50 but a fair bit larger than a FZ18

Bigger than a Canon S5IS but slightly smaler then the body size ex-lens of a D450.

Getting close to the old Canon Pro1 but the lens retracted the Pro1 is physically smaller "at idle" although getting to be much the same weight.

"Chunky" perhaps but smaller than a dslr - fits squarely into the prosumer field in any case and not a pocket camera.

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Tom Caldwell

I'll follow the links.

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Darrell

It's strange, maybe casio signed with urke and kizu a nda this weekend because I think both of them told they were going to upload a couple of pics but...

Yep,

Agree, nda in place, hence they didn't dare post anything, why ddn't they just say that though, if Kizu was a girl I know what she'd be known as!!!