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Re: Casio ZR200 - So far very little interest ?
Alika
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The Casio RZ200 caught my interst. First because of its features which I found seldonly implemented in one compact camera:
blurred background.
14 mm and 21 mm and keeping the aspect ratio the same is amazing. Resulting into a 14mm - 300mm compact canmera !
Shooting pictures while video is a nice addon.
very high speed fps to up to 30
slow motion (Canon, Nikon implemented it now)
0.27 sec seconds between photos (never seen this before)
Very quick strt up time
You forgot HDR-Art
video
....;))
(hardly any site/preview mentioned this initially; actually I had to gather it from the PDF-manual, for crying out loud!)
Though I am also afraid that neither HDR-Art nor regular HDR can be combined with the 14/17mm stitching modes....can anyone confirm or deny that?
(just as it can't be combined with panorama on the Tryx, sadly....I guess we will have to wait yet another 2-3 camera generations, untill both fps and ISO plus processor speed allow the neccesary fast image-bursts & -processing (but in the meantime I would gladly settle for a slow rotating panorama & processing-timelag!)
Looking at the new announcements from Nikon and Panasonic it seems that except that they extending the zoom to 20 x there is really little innovation.
It's far worse than that, in journalist context: try finding
any
website that starts their report by mentioning the actual focal length, instead of blatantly copying the press-releases with the markedroids super-duper-mega-ultra-zoom qualities, without any reference whatsoever regarding the wide-angle performance....
(and calculating it yourself can also be tricky, like Tryx versus Samsung WB210 showed me; both have a 21mm wide-angle-equivalent lens and 1/2.3" sensor, but the Samsung has actually a 3.8mm focal length, the Tryx 4.0mm , or 19.35mm versus 21.62mm (IIRC))
Non of the features above and no sweep panorama (well Nikon has it) !
My only other 'compact' wide-angle favorite, the Panasonic G3 with 7-14mm lens, has neither panorama nor HDR (not to mention HDR-Art; seems Casio is still the only one with that lovely feature??), so until all of that is offered in the G4 or G5, I won't be buying that one for sure....
(nor the even better (but larger) wide-angle option of a Sigma 12-24mm or 8-12mm, as none of the APC-
full-size DSLR's offer all these 3 features either....will probably take even more subsequent camera-generations I am afraid, by looking at the pathetic features of the EOS 1Dx....pathetic because it
has
both the fps and ISO already, allowing the combination of panorama with HDR(-Art))
(or we might have to wait for full-hackable camera's with Android software....8-))
I'm generally doubtful of the 480mm telezoom which makes no sense handheld. I have a calm hand but I cannot get really sharp pictures with my casio FH100 which might be due to the bad stabilizer.
I've looked at the pictures from schaft9 in Flickr and I must say I'm imperssed mainly from the iso 800 cat shots. I've seldomly seen so much texture from a compact camera.
What do you think ?