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Casio Exilim EX-V8 8MP Digital Camera with 7x Anti-Shake Optical Zoom | 
| Brand: Casio
Category: Photography
List Price: $299.99
Buy Refurbished: $144.90
You Save: $155.09 (52%)
New (5) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $144.90
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 9826
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
System Memory: 11.8
Monitor Size: 250
Optical Zoom: 7
Digital Zoom: 4
Display Size: 2.5
Battery: 1 Li-Ion Battery (NP-50)
Maximum Focal Length: 266
Minimum Focal Length: 38
Maximum Resolution: 8.1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 2.3 x 3.8 x 1
MPN: EX-V8SR
Model: EX-V8SR
UPC: 079767622947
EAN: 0079767622947
ASIN: B000VGTQAI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 8 mega pixel, 7x optical | | • | 2.5" Super Bright LCD | | • | Face Detection Technology | | • | You Tube Video Capture Mode | | • | MPEG 4 H.264 Video |
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Product Description
The EX-V8 is equipped with a 7x Optical Zoom and 8.1-Megapixels within its slim shell and a CCD-shift image stabilization system. The Exilim Engine 2.0 high-performance image-processing module allows high quality movies to be recorded at the high compression rate of the next-generation H.264 standard. H.264/AVC video encoding ensures movie file sizes remain small, yet high quality, and YouTube Capture Mode sets all the right parameters for easy posting. YouTube Capture Mode enables you to shoot and save movies at the optimum size, quality and other settings for YouTube. Other features include face-detection, Anti Shake DSP and sensitivities up to ISO 6400. Flash - Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, Soft Flash and Red-eye reduction Shutter speed - 1/2 - 1/800 second (Program AE) Scene modes - 34 Best Shot modes and 11 Movie Best Shot modes Dimensions - 3.76 x 2.35 x 1.0 Weight - 5.26 ounces
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 A Swiss Army Knife of a Compact Camera October 25, 2008
kestral_fire (Rocky Mountains, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
For taking photos to enlarge, frame, and hang on the wall, I use my digital SLR. But the SLR is not portable. This is. I have this trusty little fellow in a small case on my belt most of the time. It has every feature that I need to effectively take a good photo or video with stereo sound instantaneously. It's small and not ever in the way, and because of this I am able to keep a photo diary of important life events in a easy, non cumbersome fashion. Used the camera on a 5 week travel trip through the middle east and europe in June. It was always handy and competently took photos and videos that were relatively superb for such a small camera. Doesn't come close to my SLR for photos, but the cameras fill two distinctly different but important roles in my photography life. Other reviews have said most of what I have to say.
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I just want to add two more things - quite important to me: The video is amazing good and file sizes amazingly small considering the small size of this swiss army knife camera. Also, you can set the megapixel resolution down from 8mp to 6,4, and 2 to pull out up to 14x Optical (not digital) zoom (at 2mp). Sure, you have less megapixels for resolution and cropping, but you will end up with an amazingly clear snapshot of a red-headed woodpecker at 50 feet using the 14x optical zoom at the 2mp setting. Give it a try, it is absolutely remarkable.
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It has its limitations as mentioned in other reviews, but come on, nothing can be expected to do it all perfectly. But this one does most everything, and granting a bit of compromise (I get a kick out of the guy who rates it bad because of some features that cause a blinking light or text on the menu...), wins the small camera ideal and comes in at the present head of the class. For this semester, A+ Casio.
casio August 5, 2008
Dave Leatherman (Charlotte, NC)
Great camera. kenrockwell.com has a great website and rated the camera well and I bought it based on his review and my experience with an earlier model casio. The 7x zoom is rare for a camera this size and the lense does not extend and retract from the camera. That is one of most common things to break on a camera.
 great little pocket camera May 31, 2008
Albert L. Trujillo (California USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this camera as a pocket camera for when I don't want to carry my DSLR. It does just about everything and some surprises rather well. I really like the 7x zoom and the fact that the lens doesn't extend. It also takes great movies.
Pretty good, but has a few problems May 30, 2008
David Jacobson (San Diego, CA USA)
This is a very nice little camera. I like it overall, but is has some problems. Things that I like are the way the cover slides over, Olympus Stylus style. It provides much better protection for the lens than the flimsy little eyelids on most cameras. The lack of a protruding lens makes it more rugged, I think. The display is big. It has very a manual mode and shutter priority and aperture priority, movies, and best shot.
But the things I don't like are these. The manual mode isn't much good, because it still automatically adjusts the sensitivity (ISO). Yes, you can dive into a menu and make it hold, but that resets when you turn the camera off. The little mode dial moves very easily, and it is often the case that it moves with me just handling the camera. It doesn't focus very close. (That is undoubtedly a consequence of not having a protruding lens.)
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