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Casio announces wide-angle megazoom small enough for your pocket and with incredible single-charge shot count.

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by tek-ed June 11, 2009 10:09 AM PDT
most of the specs for this camera are pretty good, but the F-Number really sucks. The maximum is F-3.2. whoa! That really sucks...F-3.2 at 24mm and the minimum is F7.5. but that's only in Wide mode apparently...I'ld like to see something in the range of F-2.x
And if you look at the continuous shutter speeds, 10 FPS at 1280 X 960 for 20 shots (about 2 seconds worth) And then you look at the resolution settings for the camera...It doesn't list this resolution. It goes from 640 X 480 to 2048 X 1536. So how did they come to that value when the camera doesn't even do that resolution?
Hmmmmm, I smell "shenanigans".
ed
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by joshua.goldman June 11, 2009 11:51 AM PDT
Yeah, sorry, I should've been more specific. It's Casio's high-speed shooting that drops the resolution to shoot faster. Of course, this also doesn't factor in the wait time it takes to store those photos once they're shot--generally anywhere from 10-15 seconds depending on the resolution. It's all digital trickery and number fudging. ;)
by make_or_break June 11, 2009 10:15 PM PDT
An aperture of F 2.x on a compact point-n-shooter at a $300 price point? You don't even see that size of opening on most general purpose zooms lenses for dSLRS.
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