Image quality
While we applaud Casio's attention to trying to eliminate blurry photos with its various special modes, boosting the ISO often delivers such high noise levels that the pictures are almost useless for anything but small snapshots. Red-eye reduction is a mixed bag, although we were told that one subject's light blue eyes always produced red-eye regardless of the camera used.
We noticed minimal purple fringing in our test shots, though, and colours were realistically pleasing. The camera has a tendency to blow out highlights, but managed to capture decent detail on a crisp new note. Unfortunately, the detail capture was less than razor sharp.
But casual shooters who maintain control over noise by keeping the sensitivity lower than ISO 100 to ISO 200 and don't make huge prints will probably be satisfied with the Casio Exilim EX-Z600's capabilities, and its low price doesn't hurt.
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Edited by Lori Grunin
Additional editing by Kate Macefield
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Tom Bell 18 November 2006
Good: Quick start up, very reliable ie battery
Bad: Menu selections, file no's
Comment: Excellent slim little camera, I wanted something I could take horse racing and just whip out my jeans pocket and take a picture! It works really well when you get the picture set up to how you want it. I prefer it in shadow mode constantly, with a little more colour and brightness added of the menu. Excellent power and playback.
Ian Stevanovich 5 September 2006
Good: Small size, large screen, ease of use
Bad: Installing bundled software
Comment: Easy to set up and use. The screen is excellent. Movie mode shoots excellent video. Bought it for my girlfriend and she looooooooves it.
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