ZR 5100 on its way...

...thanks to Telefunk, Guy and Cyrill...I am awaiting the ZR 5100.

Bought from eGlobal. Never even heard of them before ( thanks Telefunk).

Coming from Hong Kong to USA via DHL (slower compared to UPS and Fed Ex in my area)

Wanted an all black camera, but seen the black ( grey lens housing) on Ebay.

They were asking around $329.

I paid $230.00 total, for a white version.

Will be comparing it at the wide end to my FZ80 ( which has soft corners at 20mm), and then to compare to a few other cameras......LX3 mainly...but also see how it compares to travel zoom ZS60.

Might also try it out against Ricoh GX100, Canon S90 and maybe even FZ1000.

Thanks again to thise mentioned , who somehow, some way have helped me make this decision to get this.

I think. I owned a 700 model travel zoom, some years back....was OK...but didnt get used to it, not toook a liking to it back then.

Wonder what language it will come loaded with.

Might need help changing it to English

Thanks again!

ANAYV

ANAYV said:

...thanks to Telefunk, Guy and Cyrill...I am awaiting the ZR 5100.

Bought from eGlobal. Never even heard of them before ( thanks Telefunk).

Coming from Hong Kong to USA via DHL (slower compared to UPS and Fed Ex in my area)

Wanted an all black camera, but seen the black ( grey lens housing) on Ebay.

They were asking around $329.

I paid $230.00 total, for a white version.

Will be comparing it at the wide end to my FZ80 ( which has soft corners at 20mm), and then to compare to a few other cameras......LX3 mainly...but also see how it compares to travel zoom ZS60.

Might also try it out against Ricoh GX100, Canon S90 and maybe even FZ1000.

Thanks again to thise mentioned , who somehow, some way have helped me make this decision to get this.

I think. I owned a 700 model travel zoom, some years back....was OK...but didnt get used to it, not toook a liking to it back then.

Wonder what language it will come loaded with.

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Could be anything, but there's always English to find in the Language menu.

ANAYV said:

Might need help changing it to English

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Menu- Setup Menu (gear wheel) - keep going down down until the item 5 from the very last is Language (2nd item of last page) - press Right and choose a language you like the look of - Press OK to accept.

Random stuff gathering (very) slowly on my page at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/casio/EX-ZR5100/index.html and at some time in the future I will write other pages as hinted at. Stalled lately as I try and repair damage caused by my ISP losing all my pages the other week.

Regards..... Guy

You should have a grand time with your new little beauty. you got a nice price … I paid $280 from eGlobal about 6 months ago for a black one).

I recently traveled with an LX3 and a zr5100. The Casio compares very favorably to the Panny. I find the LX3 hard to beat in most situations for my needs but the zr5100 often surpasses it and offers the extra wide opportunity with similar size sensor resulting in very nice captures.

By far the zr5100 has superior video and the ability to hold focus while panning in video mode (compared to my zr700). Although the two of them pair up nicely as noted by others here using a zr800 and zr850.

Good choice … looking forward to seeing some of your first images.

pK

Guy Parsons said:

ANAYV said:

...thanks to Telefunk, Guy and Cyrill...I am awaiting the ZR 5100.

Bought from eGlobal. Never even heard of them before ( thanks Telefunk).

Coming from Hong Kong to USA via DHL (slower compared to UPS and Fed Ex in my area)

Wanted an all black camera, but seen the black ( grey lens housing) on Ebay.

They were asking around $329.

I paid $230.00 total, for a white version.

Will be comparing it at the wide end to my FZ80 ( which has soft corners at 20mm), and then to compare to a few other cameras......LX3 mainly...but also see how it compares to travel zoom ZS60.

Might also try it out against Ricoh GX100, Canon S90 and maybe even FZ1000.

Thanks again to thise mentioned , who somehow, some way have helped me make this decision to get this.

I think. I owned a 700 model travel zoom, some years back....was OK...but didnt get used to it, not toook a liking to it back then.

Wonder what language it will come loaded with.

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Could be anything, but there's always English to find in the Language menu.

Guy Parsons said:

Might need help changing it to English

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Menu- Setup Menu (gear wheel) - keep going down down until the item 5 from the very last is Language (2nd item of last page) - press Right and choose a language you like the look of - Press OK to accept.

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Thanks so much Guy!

Your step by step procedure will make that an easy quick fix when I first get it.

Guy Parsons said:

Random stuff gathering (very) slowly on my page at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/casio/EX-ZR5100/index.html and at some time in the future I will write other pages as hinted at.

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Thanks for that link. . Was good to revisit it, and now bookmarked it. Looking forward ( as I think Roland and others are) to your updates, and anything else you add.

Guy Parsons said:

Stalled lately as I try and repair damage caused by my ISP losing all my pages the other week.

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That really stinks . Sorry to hear that.

Guy Parsons said:

Regards..... Guy

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Enjoy your weekend.

ANAYV

Guy Parsons said:

Guy Parsons wrote: [...]

Random stuff gathering (very) slowly on my page at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/casio/EX-ZR5100/index.html and at some time in the future I will write other pages as hinted at. Stalled lately as I try and repair damage caused by my ISP losing all my pages the other week.

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Guy, I'm sorry to learn that.

Over the last couple of centuries archaeologists have been reading correspondence from several millenia ago, stored on various kinds of fairly permanent media. One wonders if archivists in just a century will be able to read correspondence from a few decades earlier, because media seems to be getting less permanent. ;-(

Regards..... Guy

Cyril Catt said:

Cyril Catt said:

Guy Parsons wrote: [...]

Random stuff gathering (very) slowly on my page at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/casio/EX-ZR5100/index.html and at some time in the future I will write other pages as hinted at. Stalled lately as I try and repair damage caused by my ISP losing all my pages the other week.

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Guy, I'm sorry to learn that.

Over the last couple of centuries archaeologists have been reading correspondence from several millenia ago, stored on various kinds of fairly permanent media. One wonders if archivists in just a century will be able to read correspondence from a few decades earlier, because media seems to be getting less permanent. ;-(

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I guess my example is one simple reason why I would never trust cloud storage for anything that is remotely important. Just one fumble by some idiot at some data storage place and it's all gone.

Plenty of backups kept on a bunch of hard drives, and best if scattered around a bit. Print anything really important and store somewhere really safe.

Maybe if we chipped everything into granite blocks or made baked clay tablets it would keep for a while.

Regards........ Guy

Hi guys,

Just to jump in here on a slightly different tack. I've just come back from two weeks in the good ole USA and loved it as always, I still say that I could go live in the States, I really do enjoy my time over there.

I took my Pan LX7 & TZ70 having decided to leave the Casio ZR850 at home. Now as some of you will know, I have been on about getting the 5100 to go with my 850 mainly because of its wide end at 19mm which would save me keep fitting the "add on" 18mm lens to my LX7 every time I wanted that slightly wider view, and then keep taking it off again, also having to carry the extra weight of the adaptor tube and lens.

So, the reason for this post, well I got so fed with keep putting the 18mm wide lens on and off the LX7 I do wish that I'd picked up a 5100 a few weeks ago.

I do love the LX7 and not 100% sure that the 5100 will match it for iq but I'm a snapper nowadays, and although I still want a decent photo I'm thinking that the difference between the two cams (for my style of snapping) isn't really going to be that great.

I have a white 850 and can pick up a 5100 for around £215 here in the UK, but not sure that I want another white cam and with the black 5100 being around £30 more I'm going to have to keep searching for one at the lower price,, or buy a white one and mark it in some way so I can tell the difference in my small shoulder bag.

Anyway,, just thought I'd mention it. Hopefully I'll find a black one soon.

Roland.


"" I'm a snap-shooter! I shoot anything that interest me. Sometimes, I get lucky and some of my snap-shots turn into a photograph.""

rolandb said:

Hi guys,

Just to jump in here on a slightly different tack. I've just come back from two weeks in the good ole USA and loved it as always, I still say that I could go live in the States, I really do enjoy my time over there.

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Heh, heh, there's a difference, been to USA a few times spread between 1967 and 1996. Nice at first but living there for 3 months at a time slowly drove my wife and I a bit crazy. Not homesickness, just the overall dumbness of the locals seemed to annoy. Sure there's smart people, but they are overwhelmingly outnumbered by sheeple who really get in the way, mostly very nice people to meet but sheeple nevertheless. There's more of a culture shock for an Aussie going to USA than if they go to Europe, I feel. We saw that when involved for a short time with a company sending exchange students around the world to many places.

rolandb said:

I took my Pan LX7 & TZ70 having decided to leave the Casio ZR850 at home. Now as some of you will know, I have been on about getting the 5100 to go with my 850 mainly because of its wide end at 19mm which would save me keep fitting the "add on" 18mm lens to my LX7 every time I wanted that slightly wider view, and then keep taking it off again, also having to carry the extra weight of the adaptor tube and lens.

So, the reason for this post, well I got so fed with keep putting the 18mm wide lens on and off the LX7 I do wish that I'd picked up a 5100 a few weeks ago.

I do love the LX7 and not 100% sure that the 5100 will match it for iq but I'm a snapper nowadays, and although I still want a decent photo I'm thinking that the difference between the two cams (for my style of snapping) isn't really going to be that great.

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Yes, I'm getting more to the snapper type of shooting, why sweat over absolute quality when it's the memories that are the important thing. As I get closer to pushing up daisies time (sometime possibly in the next 10-15 years based on family history) then I realise that probably nothing that I shoot will survive past grandkids cleaning out gramp's old computer junk.

rolandb said:

I have a white 850 and can pick up a 5100 for around £215 here in the UK, but not sure that I want another white cam and with the black 5100 being around £30 more I'm going to have to keep searching for one at the lower price,, or buy a white one and mark it in some way so I can tell the difference in my small shoulder bag.

Anyway,, just thought I'd mention it. Hopefully I'll find a black one soon.

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I've gone off black and seem to like white, way back my wife had a ZR100 in white, later I bought a ZR1000 in white, then the white ZR5100 and shortly after, the ZR3700 in guess what? White. But the "whites" are all a bit different. Some slightly cream, some pure white, some slightly silvery white, some have white tops, some have a different silver top. Thinking that I may get confused I did "label" a couple. But they are different to look at and only in the dark would there be a problem.

Regards..... Guy

Guy Parsons said:

rolandb said:

Hi guys,

Just to jump in here on a slightly different tack. I've just come back from two weeks in the good ole USA and loved it as always, I still say that I could go live in the States, I really do enjoy my time over there.

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Heh, heh, there's a difference, been to USA a few times spread between 1967 and 1996. Nice at first but living there for 3 months at a time slowly drove my wife and I a bit crazy. Not homesickness, just the overall dumbness of the locals seemed to annoy. Sure there's smart people, but they are overwhelmingly outnumbered by sheeple who really get in the way, mostly very nice people to meet but sheeple nevertheless. There's more of a culture shock for an Aussie going to USA than if they go to Europe, I feel. We saw that when involved for a short time with a company sending exchange students around the world to many places.

Guy Parsons said:

I took my Pan LX7 & TZ70 having decided to leave the Casio ZR850 at home. Now as some of you will know, I have been on about getting the 5100 to go with my 850 mainly because of its wide end at 19mm which would save me keep fitting the "add on" 18mm lens to my LX7 every time I wanted that slightly wider view, and then keep taking it off again, also having to carry the extra weight of the adaptor tube and lens.

So, the reason for this post, well I got so fed with keep putting the 18mm wide lens on and off the LX7 I do wish that I'd picked up a 5100 a few weeks ago.

I do love the LX7 and not 100% sure that the 5100 will match it for iq but I'm a snapper nowadays, and although I still want a decent photo I'm thinking that the difference between the two cams (for my style of snapping) isn't really going to be that great.

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Yes, I'm getting more to the snapper type of shooting, why sweat over absolute quality when it's the memories that are the important thing. As I get closer to pushing up daisies time (sometime possibly in the next 10-15 years based on family history) then I realise that probably nothing that I shoot will survive past grandkids cleaning out gramp's old computer junk.

Guy Parsons said:

I have a white 850 and can pick up a 5100 for around £215 here in the UK, but not sure that I want another white cam and with the black 5100 being around £30 more I'm going to have to keep searching for one at the lower price,, or buy a white one and mark it in some way so I can tell the difference in my small shoulder bag.

Anyway,, just thought I'd mention it. Hopefully I'll find a black one soon.

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I've gone off black and seem to like white, way back my wife had a ZR100 in white, later I bought a ZR1000 in white, then the white ZR5100 and shortly after, the ZR3700 in guess what? White. But the "whites" are all a bit different. Some slightly cream, some pure white, some slightly silvery white, some have white tops, some have a different silver top. Thinking that I may get confused I did "label" a couple. But they are different to look at and only in the dark would there be a problem.

Regards..... Guy

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Thanks Guy,

I guess I"m realistic enough to know that a couple of weeks holiday is no where near the same as being there full time and can understand where your coming from in that respect. Being the wrong side of 60 I also know that my time / chance to be there full time has passed and will have to do with the occasional "vacation" over there.

""Yes, I'm getting more to the snapper type of shooting, why sweat over absolute quality when it's the memories that are the important thing. "" That's how I view it now Guy, and although I want as best a "snap" as I can get, I'm no longer so worried about it, and as I say,

"" I'm a snap-shooter! I shoot anything that interest me. Sometimes, I get lucky and some of my snap-shots turn into a photograph.""

With regard to getting another white Casio, I had already thought that I would probably end up putting a label or sticky tape of some kind on it just so I know which is which.

Roland.


"" I'm a snap-shooter! I shoot anything that interest me. Sometimes, I get lucky and some of my snap-shots turn into a photograph.""

rolandb said:

With regard to getting another white Casio, I had already thought that I would probably end up putting a label or sticky tape of some kind on it just so I know which is which.

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Here's mine......



Used a Brother plastic tape printer with clear tape that has black printing.

Also have a white ZR3700 but it is a sort of silvery white with a slight grip plus it has the top panel silver. So is easy to tell apart.....



Regards..... Guy

Guy Parsons said:

rolandb said:

With regard to getting another white Casio, I had already thought that I would probably end up putting a label or sticky tape of some kind on it just so I know which is which.

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Here's mine......



Used a Brother plastic tape printer with clear tape that has black printing.

Also have a white ZR3700 but it is a sort of silvery white with a slight grip plus it has the top panel silver. So is easy to tell apart.....



Regards..... Guy

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Great idea Guy,, thanks for that.

Roland.


"" I'm a snap-shooter! I shoot anything that interest me. Sometimes, I get lucky and some of my snap-shots turn into a photograph.""

Cyril Catt said:

Cyril Catt said:

Guy Parsons wrote: [...]

Random stuff gathering (very) slowly on my page at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~parsog/casio/EX-ZR5100/index.html and at some time in the future I will write other pages as hinted at. Stalled lately as I try and repair damage caused by my ISP losing all my pages the other week.

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Guy, I'm sorry to learn that.

Over the last couple of centuries archaeologists have been reading correspondence from several millenia ago, stored on various kinds of fairly permanent media. One wonders if archivists in just a century will be able to read correspondence from a few decades earlier, because media seems to be getting less permanent. ;-(

Regards..... Guy

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Will contrast it at the wide end with my FZ80 ( which has delicate corners at 20mm), and after that to contrast with a couple of other cameras......LX3 mainly...but likewise perceive how it looks at to travel zoom ZS60.

Wow, I was just looking around this group so see if there are any threads regarding my newly bought TR70 (which I bought since I also "missed the boat" buying ZR5100) and thank god I found this thread!!

I have been looking for non-pink ZR5100 everyday for the past 1-2 weeks and thanks to thread, finally bought one!

Glad you were able to locate one. I am really enjoying mine.

I did purchase the silicone case that is available for under $10 (US) and it does afford extra grip and weather protection … it might be worth your consideration. (note that it is only offered for the zr5000 but the case does fit the 5100. They are the same except that the 5100 does not have the grip bump out that the 5000 has. The case fits very snug and there is a bit of air space under the case grip itself when installed on the 5100. Not an issue and actually serves as additional aid in handling. Blah blah … I'm way overstating this. Bottom line is that the case does work.

Enjoy

Looking forward to seeing some of your images.

pK

Hi,

Like you I've been looking out for a non-pink 5100 for a while but no luck so far. Where did you source yours from?

davesurrey said:

Hi,

Like you I've been looking out for a non-pink 5100 for a while but no luck so far. Where did you source yours from?

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Like what OP said, I bought it from EGlobal, mine is already on its way.

Before this, I even tried ebay from other countries but still no luck.

Thanks