Casio Exilim EX-Z850 8.1 Megapixel Compact Camera

Great camera

Strengths: Small size, 8MP, bright screen, excellent battery life, quick response time, sleek design, durable (I accidentally drop it on a concrete floor, it still works great only with few scratches)

Weakness: high noise at ISO 400 & above, video isn't great (but it is a compact camera what do you expect, so I'm fine with that).

Overall I love this camera, had it for 2 years, took it to a lot of places. Before I got the Casio z850 I had the Sony DSC-T7 which is horrible, extreme flash that blast the whole picture, blurred images all the time. Anyway you get my point. I did a lot of research before I bought this camera, it have everything you possibly want for a point and shoot and more. Macro and manual focus works...
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Overall I love this camera, had it for 2 years, took it to a lot of places. Before I got the Casio z850 I had the Sony DSC-T7 which is horrible, extreme flash that blast the whole picture, blurred images all the time. Anyway you get my point. I did a lot of research before I bought this camera, it have everything you possibly want for a point and shoot and more. Macro and manual focus works great, nice depth of field pictures. I bought it for $340, it probably sell for a lot cheaper now. It's worth every penny.

By jlit903 - Apr 13, 2007

Great little camera

Strengths: quick shutter speed, nice video, long life on battery

Weakness: Don't like having to use the docking station

This is my first Casio camera and so far I'm liking it a lot (I've had 2 Fuji finepix cameras in the past). Love the small size, quick fire up speed, great resolution. I've taken movies and am amazed at the sound quality. Lots of fun to do those. Macro is nice. Surprising how much use that gets. The ID picture feature, which I never thought I would use, has been used a number of times for work...
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This is my first Casio camera and so far I'm liking it a lot (I've had 2 Fuji finepix cameras in the past). Love the small size, quick fire up speed, great resolution.

I've taken movies and am amazed at the sound quality. Lots of fun to do those.

Macro is nice. Surprising how much use that gets.

The ID picture feature, which I never thought I would use, has been used a number of times for work things.

All in all, a very nice camera and I am enjoying it. Its compact size ensures that it is with me for any picture opportunity that may present itself.

I recommend.

By PamF - Oct 23, 2006

Casio Exilim EX-Z850

Strengths: Small size-sturdily built (except for battery cover)-battery life-bright LCD screen.

Weakness: wimpy plastic battery cover.

I don't consider less than perfect video to be a fault in such a small camera. If you want great video, get a proper video camera. This tiny camera does most things very well. I remember when cameras weighed 5lb, some of them still do!

By sirron - Sep 22, 2006

Excellent camera

Strengths: easy menu, Battery life, small size of camera, design, quick shot, steady shot at digital zoom, regular USB cable to connect camera to crandle, excellent charge speed of flash

Weakness: Awfull video, no carrying case, pictures are very much digital feel , nikon 7900 has better quality of colors...

Overal it is 5 out of 5 camera in 8 mbpx class for pictures and 2 of 5 for movies, I tried Nikon 7900, different casio's(exz600-terrible in each and every aspect,exS600 -decent, exz750 -the best, I would say even better then exz850).
I am very much satisfied with this camera for just everyday use of shoting infinit shots or macro shots.Great camera.

By alexdeiden - Aug 8, 2006

Casio Exilim EX-Z850 Review

Strengths: Compact size, excellent battery life, easy to use, bright LCD screen

Weakness: Movie quality disappointing

This is my first digital camera. I was looking for something small, easy to use, but yet powerful, with good battery life, picture quality and movie quality. After some research, I found out about the Casio EX-Z750, which seemed to have everything I wanted. Its picture and video quality was excellent, and it looked as a very nice compact camera. However, I decided to get the EX-Z850 as I assumed...
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This is my first digital camera. I was looking for something small, easy to use, but yet powerful, with good battery life, picture quality and movie quality. After some research, I found out about the Casio EX-Z750, which seemed to have everything I wanted. Its picture and video quality was excellent, and it looked as a very nice compact camera. However, I decided to get the EX-Z850 as I assumed this would be an "upgrade" to the previous version.
This model has very nice picture quality, but unfortunately the video mode seems to be much worse than the previous model. When I looked at the video samples for the EX-Z750 I was astonished by how good the video looked. But with my EX-Z850, the "high quality" mode is terrible and all grainy, and the "normal" mode looks better than the high quality.
Apart from the video, everything else is excellent. The picture quality is impressive, and it is amazing how many details you can capture with this little camera. The battery life is excellent as well.
I would recommend this camera to anyone looking for a compact digital camera, which is easy to use but yet powerful with features. However, if you are want to capture excellent videos as well, I would suggest you consider the EX-Z750 instead, as the EX-Z850 is not as good in this aspect.

By galandy - May 21, 2006