Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z77 Digital Camera

Casio inches its Exilim Zoom alternation advanced with the EX-Z77, a accessory advancement to the Exilim EX-Z75. The Z77 maintains best of its predecessor's accouterments aspects, but appearance a new angel processor and a few added new features.

Design of the Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z77 Digicam

The EX-Z77 maintains the aforementioned abbreviate contour and ascendancy blueprint as the Z75. You can admission best functions through the camera's large, annular joypad and the four attenuated buttons amassed about it. Besides simple card navigation, these buttons additionally admission the camera's accumulating of Best Attempt arena presets, accessible its arrangement menu, and toggle amid almanac and playback modes. While the ascendancy buttons feel a bit too baby and flat, the joypad and zoom buttons fit calmly beneath alike ample thumbs.

Features of the Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z77 Digicam

Besides some baby upgrades, the EX-Z77 doesn't action abounding changes from its predecessor. It keeps the aforementioned 7-megapixel resolution, the aforementioned almost apathetic 38mm-to-114mm-equivalent F3.1-to-F5.9 lens, and the aforementioned hardly chapped 2.6-inch, 114,960-pixel TFT LCD awning as the Z75.

Despite the accouterments similarities, the Z77 incorporates Casio's new Exilim Engine 2.0 angel processor, which hardly perked up the camera's achievement over its earlier brother.

Despite the EX-Z77's low LCD pixel count, its 14:9 wide-screen aspect arrangement offers affluence of allowance for a accessible aftereffect card with which to ascendancy best of the camera's settings. You can bound admission frequently acclimated controls such as ISO acuteness and white antithesis by borer up or bottomward on the joypad and cycling through the sidebar's assorted slots.

Like the Exilim EX-S880, the EX-Z77 appearance Casio's new YouTube Capture approach amid its countless Best Attempt arena presets. As its name suggests, YouTube Capture annal video clips fabricated accurately for uploading to YouTube. Fundamentally, it's aloof a 30fps VGA MPEG-4 cine mode, but it works able-bodied with the included YouTube Uploader software, which lets you column your videos online bound after application YouTube's uploading page.

Performance of the Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z77 Digicam

In our lab tests, the EX-Z77 neither afflicted nor aghast with its performance, assault or attached its antecedent in every category. After a 1.6-second delay from power-on to aboriginal shot, the Z77 could booty a new account every 1.6 abnormal with the onboard beam disabled. With the beam angry on, that added to 2 seconds.

Shutter lag fared best in our tests, barometer 0.5 additional with our high-contrast ambition and 1.1 abnormal with our low-contrast target, which actor ablaze and dim cutting conditions, respectively. In our continuous-shooting test, the camera captured 10 full-resolution shots in 9.2 abnormal for an boilerplate amount of 1.1 frames per second. Admitting that's annihilation to address home about, that amount still exhausted the Z75's access acceleration of 0.7fps, so it's still an improvement.

Image Affection of the Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z77 Digicam

While babble stays abundantly low in the EX-Z77's pictures, a accepted benevolence obscures capacity that should contrarily attending sharp. Pictures taken beneath beaming ablaze tend to appear out hardly balmy alike beneath the tungsten white balance, admitting the camera's chiral white antithesis can advice you affected this problem. The camera's shots assignment able-bodied abundant for e-mails and baby prints, but any bigger book will acceptable disappoint.

At aboriginal glance, the Casio Exilim EX-Z77 seems like a actual nice camera. It's small, fast, and abounding of accessible options. Unfortunately, advertent users will be aghast by its angel affection and bare improvements over the Z75. If you already accept a Z75, you don't absolutely charge to carapace out the banknote for such a accessory upgrade. If you're artlessly attractive for an affordable, simple slimcam, you ability appetite to analysis out Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-W55 or Olympus' FE-190.

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