After the camera now own almost 2 months and already in some extreme situations (z.Bsp.Aussenaufnahmen at -20 degrees) was able to test, I get more and more to have found the ideal camera for me to believe at last. While there are a few shortcomings but in the number of many advantages this fall for me under the table.
In manual mode, I can at the camera almost everything set itself. If only this can be found in almost any other camera of this size.
The own creativity knows no limits with this camera. I have far more in any other camera of this size found such a variety of settings, in the range of 'completely manual' everything is available to the foolproof fully automatic. What has what other comparable cameras do not have the Casio: the giant screen in combination with the optical viewfinder. Personally, I'll never buy a camera without optical viewfinder. This is the one historically, as formerly analog SLR fan you probably will never get away quite like this, and I have never seen a display on which you can see details, when the sun shines directly on it.
The next purchase criterion for Casio was, for me. As a ski instructor and father the possibility of video recording in VGA quality And these are also the best compared with those of my predecessors cameras.
I have a Gigabytechip and with this you can for 30 minutes. films with the camera.
Now I come to the next plus point from which I was pleasantly surprised, this is the super battery at the Casio. Those of my predecessor cameras (Fujifilm, Pentax and Canon) were not bad at room temperature. While skiing it's usually a bit colder, and exactly then, these batteries have made relatively quickly limp.
Not so this the Casio, it verges on a phenomenon that one can even still filming at minus temperatures and snap like crazy. Before the battery breaks down, freeze a rather fingers firmly on the camera.
And that's a lot of value, because who has ever made at minus 10 degrees with numb fingers a battery change, know what I'm talking about; because that makes you a second time, because the danger that either the battery or the camera in the snow falls is much too large.
Even with such foreign objects and moisture I could not detect any weaknesses in the picture quality.
Now I could still continue enumerating further plus points but I have limited to the essential which for me personally led me to the decision to buy, and this I have not looked back since.
Abschliesend I would like to enumerate a few weaknesses, but as already mentioned at the beginning, I can live with it.
The first weakness we are confronted immediately after purchase. Although there is a manual as booklet, but this is only a rough summary. The details are only available in the PDF file on the CD. Especially at the beginning you are almost overwhelmed by the variety of settings, and then you always have to turn on the computer and look on the CD, or by looking at the collection of loose sheets PDF expression; this is more like tedious; I can not understand why in the booklet on the few pages was gespaart.
Another weakness is the docking station. You need it in the standard to almost everything, the battery charge, to download the pictures, and for connecting the camera to a TV.
But there are ways to minimize this because it is very inconvenient to carry around this ever part with it.
Point 1 battery charge. With a second battery to get loose due to the already mentioned excellent battery performance without battery charge over a two-week vacation.
Point 2 Download images: chip with one gigabyte, the capacity is almost infinite and I am very flexible with the download.
Point 3 Connecting to a TV: there are the accessory AV cable directly to the camera, which is always very convenient if you evenings want to show the pictures of the day on television on vacation to his children.