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Casio ZR200 - So far very little interest ?

Started Feb 4, 2012 | Discussions thread
WJMWJM Regular Member • Posts: 161
Re: Casio ZR200 - So far very little interest ?

Alika wrote:

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 ?

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