Casio Exilim EX-S880 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Anti-Shake Optical Zoom (Black)
By: Casio Average Rating: 3.5 Total Reviews: 10
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 On: 2008-06-27
amazing little camera. great pics, large review screen, one button movie option is a major plus!
On: 2008-06-25
Just what I needed. Mpeg4 videos; nice and small and with a price to match it. Im no camera expert but the pictures look crips and vivid. The Best Shot button is great. The auto focus feature that supposedly focuses on faces isnt working all that great for me though, I must be doing something wrong. I also liked it that you can use pretty much standrad rechargeable batteries. The charger is very nice as well and has a USB interface. Works of 100-240V and 50-60 Hz. Excellent buy.
 On: 2008-05-20
I moved from a Canon SD 750 to this Casio and it was the worst thing ever! Canon makes such good quality cameras that take great pictures then I go to this Casio and it sucks! Not only does it not focus on anything closer than 1.5ft, it just does not take good pictures. I hate this camera, stay with Canon they make real quality cameras. I just bought an SD 1100 Canon and I am throwing the Casio in the trash where it belongs.
On: 2008-04-09
I read a lot of reviews before I bought this Casio camera and they were right on. Its a great camera. I got it and didnt have time to look at the instructions, so I just started taking pics and videos and they came out great. I am very satisfied with this camera. Its small, easy to use and takes great pics and videos. An added bonus was the slide slow feature, my family loved watching our pictures on TV, plus the different background music was fun, too.
 On: 2008-04-01
I started out thinking this camera was amazing because it was so thin, but after some use I realized its an honestly bad quality camera. Its design is pretty attractive, not on the level of say a Cyber-SHot T Series, but it looks good. The lens is quite large for only 3x optical zoom and takes up a little less than half of the front of the camera. Its very thin and has a large 2.8 inch LCD which takes up about 3/4s of the back. It has a convenient thumb-rest as well, making it easy to hold with one hand. Video recording is very easy with a touch of a button. The camera includes 30-some-odd best shot modes, which are seen in many cameras now. This is pretty much where the good ends. Its control system is unremarkable at best, with awkwardly small buttons and an uncomfortable zoom switch. The LCD screen is impossible to see in the sunlight and just emits the feeling of low resolution and quality. The menu system is fine, but they only include some features in the sidebar on the LCD so you have to hunt for the rest in the menus. The optical zoom is nothing special at 3x and the anti-shake is digital, not optical so it really doesnt work well and I believe it degrades image quality. On to the images themselves. The camera has very few ISO settings, and anything above ISO 400 looks like its snowing. Even at low ISOs the cameras pictures look soft. One thing that really bugs me is that in some low-light conditions the color temperature is for some reason really, really warm, making the image look awful. I dont know why it does this but I dont like it. The cameras face-detection doesnt work at all. Sometimes it thinks somethings a face when it isnt, and its only successfully worked for me about 4 times out of a good 600 pictures with this camera. Id say a good 250+ had peoples faces in them. Thats a 1/62.5 chance of working at best. When it all comes down to it, this camera is somewhat good looking but this cant compensate for terrible, super-soft pictures. Id give this camera a pass and buy a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-T70 of Canon PowerShot SD870 IS. These cameras have about the same resolution but larger screens, optical stabilization, and the take good pictures. The Canon has a wide-angle lens and 3.6x optical zoom while the sony has a touchscreen and super sleek design. Casios a small company and doesnt have the build quality or production capapbility or funding to produce a winner yet. Its worth the extra money for one of the other ones, trust me.
PROS:
-Somewhat Attractive Design
-Large Screen
-Easy Video Recording
CONS:
-Terrible, soft pictures
-Low light pictures have really, really warm color temperatures
-Limited ISO range, high ISOs are super noisy
-Cheap build quality
-Face detection doesnt work
-No optical anti-shake
-Small, awkward buttons
On: 2008-03-17
I really want to like this camera but unfortunantly I dont. Yes the video is good but the pictures could be a lot better. Here are pros and cons of image quality:
PRO - Video is prob the best you will get on a pocket camera like this. It takes SUPERB pictures in medium light and flash pictures.
CON - Atrocious pictures in daylight or bright light situations. The "Auto picture mode" is one of the worst Ive seen in these conditions and it is killing my vacation to Italy (yes I am here now with my new camera). It is possible to manually adjust exposure and metering to compensate a little bit BUT THE SETTINGS DONT SAVE so I have to manually adjust every time I take a picture. Also, WHAT YOU SEE IN THE VIEWFINDER ISNT ALWAYS WHAT RECORDS AS A PICTURE. The image will be cropped or suddenly washed out when I go back to review....HOW ANNOYING. It is so bad that I am returning the camera when i get stateside again.
On: 2008-01-07
This is a great camera and it is a good buy for the money. It has a slim design so you can put it in your pocket and take it anywhere. It has a nice large screen for easy viewing.
 On: 2007-12-23
Just use it intermittenly. Cannot comment on battery life, many other functions, etc. yet.
Overall a great extra thin camera, lots of good improvements. I just want to focus on the negatives:
1. button size. Very small. Easy to mis-press something
2. button location. Worse than previous design. Always accidentally turn it on. This is my biggest complaint
3. Size. Slightly thicker than previous design (I had S500).
On: 2007-12-22
Just use it intermittenly. Cannot comment on battery life, many other functions, etc. yet.
Overall a great extra thin camera, lots of good improvements. I just want to focus on the negatives:
1. button size. Very small. Easy to mis-press something
2. button location. Worse than previous design. Always accidentally turn it on. This is my biggest complaint
3. Size. Slightly thicker than previous design (I had S500).
On: 2007-12-19
I owned a S770 and loved it. I thought this would be an upgrade but it is not. I am on my second one after trading in the first due to an optics problem. Surprise, the optics problem is still there. Casio has not admitted to the problem yet, but this will come back to haunt them. Many of my pictures have circular spots on them. These are caused by a reflection issue in their optical path. Why yes, I do know about optics. This has ruined company party and family Thansgiving photos. And, I cannot get hold of anyone at Casio to get their opinion of this. As much as I hate to do so, since I really like the thin design, I am going to return my S880 and try to find an older S770.
On: 2007-12-01
I just purchased the EX-S880 to replace my old Casio Exilim EX-Z50 that I bought 3 years ago. I have always been very pleased with my old Casio - I never had any problems with it even after dropping it 5 feet onto the concrete. I was interested in a new camera that wasnt as worn as my old one after so much use and I was interested in some of the new features and possibly a little better picture quality. I thought about getting a camera with better zoom but decided that the pocketability of these Casios is still my main priority. If I can put it in my pocket Im apt to get a lot more photos. After much analysis I finally decided just to upgrade to this newer Casio, figuring it has to be at least as good as my old one. I was more than surprised by how pleased I was with this S880. The picture quality is much better in general and the flash travels much farther. I am not a professional photographer by any means but I do care about picture quality. There are some manual control options for the more advanced photographer, but it also has automatic settings which I have found to be very effective and better than anything Ive tried to take manually. My old Casio started up and was ready to take pictures very quickly but this one somehow is even faster with less delay between pictures and less delay when using the flash. Very large and bright screen. No pitfalls that I can see. My old Casio had a lot of red-eye problems when I didnt use the Red-Eye flash. This one still has a little bit of red-eye but not as much as my old EX-Z50. If I had the patience for the Red-Eye flash this wouldnt be a problem at all.
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