Report: Casio is pulling out of digital compact camera market

I used to shoot Casio QV-3000EX 15 years ago. Bulky and funny looking camera but quite inbteresting, used Smart Media cards, had manual operation, 3MP Sony sensor, 3x Canon fast zoom lens (f/2-2.5) and the pictures came out nice, aged very well for the time period.

Didn’t know Casio made cameras. Watches yes, but Cameras? They should have put some money into marketing.

Casio may not have ever been particularly popular in the United States...but when I lived in Japan, it was quite popular over there...of course, focusing on point-and-shoot cameras. It's sad news that they're now leaving all markets...

The Casio G'zOne series phones are built like tanks and can handle extreme work environments, I know from experience. If they would update the Commando into the current market I would get one for my hiking GPS needs.

I assume Casio has better luck with their watches. My G-Shock is still going strong after 15 years (still with the original battery!).

REally!? Casio sells like hotcakes in Asia, especially their selfies cameras the TR series and like the EX-TR80. My sister bought one for over $1,000 in Shanghai ouch! Maybe they're pulling out of the US market. Can somebody confirm please!

If I were in their shoes, I would have gotten into the smart phone business early on.
Even now, they still have an opportunity to get into the smart phone business, especially that the US has already banned two major Chinese smart phone firms, and the fact that they have extensive experience in the camera area.
Casio has always been innovative.
They have launched many good products over the years, and their prices are usually very reasonable.

:((
any plans for making some other camera system? I really liked Casio, I hope they add another smaller sensor camera with tiny lenses and loads of functionality as they used to make.
They were among the first in making high speed compact cameras, and ultra slow motion recordings.

I'm from the New York City area, so I like Casio because it makes you say, "Yo."

I still have an Exilim EX-S10. Picked up from Ebay last year for around $25. Metal body that's super thin.....I think it even got some award for that. No IS but its 2.7" @ 230k res screen is fairly bright in direct sunlight. It does ok for a 10 year old pointer.

I hope that means their insanely overpriced selfie cams also go.

"Have you owned a Casio digital camera, or do you still own one?"

My Casio ownership included the feature packed QV-4000/5700 (these were the cameras with 100 scene modes), and the Exilim Pro series EX-P505 and EX-P600/P700. The P-series had fast focus and were a joy to use. The menu system was simple. The P505 was a early stills/video hybrid. It was dogged for it's plastic build, but that little thing could produce, and it was easily usable by every member of the family. We used it for several years until too many hot pixels developed to be practical (side note: I really wish every camera maker would have hot-pixel mapping).

If Casio released the 1/17" EX-10/100 in the states, I probably would have gone with one of those over the Samsung EX2F. Sadly, the cost to import these great cameras put them largely off my radar.

Way back in "the day" I loved my EX-Z750 with it's "past movie mode".

Imagine this: Watching my little girl play she looks both ways then stands up.... for the first time. I click the record button AFTER she stands and catch the entire, momentous event on video.

Fast forward to 2018. I have a Sony A6000, a billion times better in almost every way. If had the A6000 at that moment in time I would have missed the moment.

Casio went on to expand the capabilities of their time traveling shutter/record button adding a burst mode that let you start storing the burst before you hit the shutter. Imagine all the action shots you miss the start of in the split second it takes to press down on the shutter. Not a problem with Casio.

Riddle me this dpreview: Has any other camera maker copied the technology Casio invented 13 years ago????

The EX-F1 was truly a pioneer on slow motion video and huge burst rates. However, the picture quality was just OK for 2008 despite having a relatively large compact sensor, and the RAW restriction to iso 200 ridiculous. The slow motion video was very fun and the FullHD video had surprisingly good quality, though.

I feel sad and nostalgic - a compact by Casio was my first digital camera...

Wow!!!, I could have told them to quit long ago, even with absolutely zero marketing skills....

I didn't know they still exist - I haven't seen a Casio Camera in many years. And I always perceived them as cheap "also done" cameras for the masses with no particularly interesting feature or even quality.

Casio, IMO was the most creative player in compact camera space.
My first two digital cameras were Casio.
The first was a "credit card sized" EXLIM camera in vivid red, my family loved it. It's still small by todays standard, and my frd had one that could play MP3!!!
The second one was EX-FH100, 10x zoom, with 1000fps video, yes its tiny tiny resolution, but 240fps modes were totally usable.
Casio also made those selfie cameras that every Asian girl must have!!!!

I will miss Casio.
on an unrelated note, Casio calculators are the best!

Who’s next ?!

Lars Rehm: I think "640 x 380 pixel resolution" should read "640 x 480 pixel resolution".

REPORT: Casio still makes cameras.

I thought they bailed years ago

Sad news indeed as they did make great little cameras.
In the house are two EX-V8, and one each of ZR100, ZR200, ZR850, ZR1000, ZR5100 bought over the years.
The 25-450mm equivalent ZR850 is what my wife uses and can see nothing better for her needs. The ZR5100 with its 19-95mm equivalent suits me as a handy belt pouch camera or handy backup to M4/3.
Only one of the V8 and the ZR200 were bought in Australia, the ZR100 and ZR850 were bought while in Japan on holidays, and the other V8, the ZR1000 and ZR5100 were bought in via post from Hong Kong.
Boo, hiss to smartphones for killing the compact camera market and killing a shining star in the form of Casio. I will miss them. And sadly, there will be more brands to follow them to the graveyard....

"Many of the company's later models did not particularly stand out from the competition, however."

Come on, Lars... to no repeat myself:
https://www.dpreview.com/news/6979454311/report-casio-is-pulling-out-of-digital-compact-camera-market?comment=0915894173

Except for the 20x zoom and 30 fps instead of 60 fps (but at higher resolutions to compensate) all the High Speed models from later years equals or improve the EX-F1 features, and are pocketable cameras.
If you mean that they could have included further enhancements, well, that's another story.

That is sad. They really made some good stuff.

Look at Casio EX-FH20 of 2008 and conclude that its features were 1) unique at the time, 2) in 2018 still not incorporated in other manufacturers' cameras (Pentax and Sony incorporated a few of them), and 3) never reviewed by DPReview.

It can shoot 40 frames per second with pre-record mode to press the shutter button at the interesting moment and select frames from the buffer. It shoots 1000 fps movies also - why don't we get that in HD today, 10 years later? I never owned this camera but hoped the features would eventually become available in cameras with larger sensor.

I kind of wasn't aware they were (still) offering digital cameras.... I thought they only did calculators and other gadgets but not cameras, at least not recently. Guess I was wrong. But this also isn't a surprise either. I imagine that despite companies like Sony, Canon, and Nikon focusing on other cameras besides P&S or bridge cameras, their (Casio's) marketshare was probably extremely low.

I mean, it might not be a bad idea for some of the bigger players to do the same, as smartphones are overtaking the P&S market (which kind of makes sense--most modern smartphones can probably beat the cheapest $100 Nikon/Canon P&S offerings. But then again, when you start talking about the advanced P&S bodies (ie. integrated lens cameras) like the RX100 or Canon G #X lines, that would be a different story as those (IMO) don't really fall into the same class as the budget P&S cameras.

Tip of the iceberg. Latest sale figures are abysmal across the board for all cameras. This was the market segment that generated most revenue, which drove much of the R&D in higher end cameras. How long before Ricoh pulls the plug or starts looking for a Pentax buyer.

I didn't even know they were still around.

When I finally got the Z750 in 2006, it was one of the last for sale at DigitalRev in Hong Kong. The sheer usefulness of this tiny camera could only be matched by a smartphone today, in terms of a camera, video and audio recorder that would be with you everywhere.

The Z750 could record 640x480 @30fps until the card or battery ran out. Looking back, the image quality was pretty bad, but in those days the quality was almost unheard of. In 2007, the Fuji F30 and Canon G7 finally cracked the video quality barrier, but still with a 30 minute limit. Not the Z750.

The Z750 also had a very useful audio recorder function. It could record audio into a low quality wav file and keep going for as long as memory or battery allowed. It could capture an entire concert if necessary. Audio quality was bad, but the memories were what counted.

The Z750 was on my belt from 2006 to 2010. I had many others including Fuji F30, Canon G7, G10, 30D DSLR and more, but the Casio was always with me.

Back in 2005-2007, Casio cameras enjoyed fair popularity, and discussion on the forums. Main street shops were full of Casio cameras and the Casio forum here was blazing. The Z750 was one of the most popular of the Casios, and was something of a grail for me because of the unlimited 640x480 30fps mpeg4 video function. Up until then, I'd only had Canons with severely craptacular 640x480 at 10fps for 10 seconds (!) or 320x240 at 15fps for three minutes. Needless to say, the Z750 video was like another world. People were agog at the then-amazing quality of the Pike Place video by Mike Davidson:

https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/06/casio-ex-z750

The Z750 was ahead of many other cameras for a number of reasons, including the ability to create, save and export custom settings. DPR members like Bart Hickman shared Bestshot settings including a pushed ISO1600 and 3200 profile. We really pushed the Z750 in those days.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/1320390