We recently purchased a Casio Exilim, after reading the great reviews on-line.

While it is a nice little camera, with many handy features, includng an exceptionally large display screen, it was missing one rather important feature for me - a view finder! The vast majority of pictures that we take are outdoors, often in bright light. From mountains for distant scenes, to close-ups of flowers, etc. In bright light conditions, it is very difficult to impossible to see what is on the screen, and I need a view finder in which to view what image is being captured. Barring that feature, I found myself guessing and hoping I'd be getting what I wanted in my picture, with varying degress of success. However, when I wanted to get some up-close pictures of rain-drops on flowers, I could not capture it at all, since I couldn't see the image on the screen!

Sadly, this issue has caused me to decide I need to return this little guy, and find one with an old-fashioned view finder to use when I need it.

For those who can function with just the screen, by all means, give it a shot! For the price, it will be hard to beat.

Exilim z1080! great digital camera!!! pretty pocket camera! Loved the material! is a little heavier than other digital cameras, but that's because of the material! metal! and I like that! gives the camera an stylish look! and of course it's way resistant! It has a lot of modes that are very handy!

PROS:

- Beautiful camera

- Pretty slim and small

- Big LCD

- Resolution! 10.1 effective pixels

- Mic and speaker

- Battery life! AMAZING! and it's better if you buy an extra battery! although the charging is pretty quick!

- 1 gb memory is enough! you can take lots of pictures!

- Audio in videos

CONS:

- Videos taken at night are not high quality ... but c'mon! this is a pocket camera! if you take videos during day light the results are going to be great!

- Optical zoom ... but again: pocket camera! we are not talking about some SLR camera!

- I have to agree with other customers, the manual is useless! pretty manual but that's it!

Maybe you'll read something about the white balance or color balance ... I haven't notice the problem with my pictures, but maybe the videos are a little dark sometimes (fixable)! and apparently theres a firmware update at casio web page! I highly recommend this camera!!!!

This is probably the best compact digital camera that you can buy at any price. Why? Because the vast majority of non-DSLR digital cameras use 1/2.3" ~ 1/2.5" CCD image sensor, but this Casio EX-Z1080 has a 1/1.75" one! It really does make a difference (less image noise) particularly when you shoot in low light condition.

In addition to taking great photos, this camera starts up really fast, has super long battery life, and is easy to operate while packing lots of functions.

Note: There's no carrying case included with this camera, so if you're taking it on a trip right away, you should order a case/pouch too.

Let me start off by saying that this is absolutely the best camera I've owned. I love the 10.1MP.

All the "Best Shot Selections" are great presets and work fantastic. I was so shocked that when I purchased this camera you could zoom in like crazy! See things that you would think you were looking under a microscope at!!

The sound works great with the video and the video mode is easy to use.

Overall, this camera is great and I just love it, I've read so many reviews on Amazon about this camera and haven't found many that have had anything negative to say about it. I recommend it! Now, take some awesome pictures! = )

WOW! A truly unbelievable camera. I had a Fujifilm camera (cannot recall the model) with only 4.5 mega pixels. That camera doesn't even come close to this. This camera makes me want to take pictures. Very easy to operate and takes pictures very quickly. Tons of different settings to get the perfect picture for any occasion. **Make sure to lightly touch the shutter button until the square in the middle of the screen turns green to ensure a great shot** I can't see myself every switching to another camera. Worth the price- a magnificent piece of technology.

When I was looking for a camera, I wanted three things: It had to be small enough to carry in my purse, take great pictures (regardless of the movement of the subjects or the photographer), and it had to have a long battery life. The Exilim EX-Z1080 excels at all of these.

After doing extensive research, I finally bought this camera. I've had it for a month now and have no complaints. The battery life on this camera is amazing! The pictures are high quality, without too much lag time between shots. I have not used the movie mode, since that was not the reason I bought the camera. When I do, I will be sure to update this review.

I've had several Casio cameras and have enjoyed them all. This is the pinnacle thus far, but I have a problem I'm wondering if anyone can help me with.

When taking flash pictures, I hold down the shutter half way to focus and then push all the way down for the shutter release. There's a significant shutter delay of about a half second. When I picked up a Z77 at Best Buy, there was no shutter delay.

Anyone have an idea of what's going on?

Thanks,

Gary

Awesome, awesome, awesome!! So small you can take it anywhere and if your a picture fanatic like me, it's a great thing to be able to slip it in your purse take a random snapshot and have great quality pictures.

My wife loves her camera. Does everything she wants it to do. The battery life is excellent.

Only reason for the four stars instead of five is that the controls are a little cryptic to figure out from just using it, definately read the manual to access the different modes and such. But I'd buy it for her again in a minute.

Now I do not know much about Digital Camera's so when my old one broke I started to look for a new one online by reading all the reviews at Amazon.com, Target.com, etc.......to see which was the most popular and had the best reviews in my price range!

This camera won hands down and I researched for quite awhile before I finally purchased it!

It not only looks good and is compact (but still easy to hold), it is easy to use.........it comes with a quick reference instruction page that are very easy to follow! The LCD wasn't as big as I wanted orgininally (wanted 3") but I was very happy to find that it is plenty big enough. The best part of the camera is that it takes GREAT PICTURES and they stay looking great even after you download them.........all of my family was amazed on how good the pictures came out over the holidays. I guess you can thank the 10MP for that of course and everyone that has seen my camera can't believe it is a 10MP as you can't find them out in the stores yet!

Like other reviewers I agree that it can be a bit slow to actually take the picture but it is much better then any other digital camera I have used (of my friends or families) and I would not return it just because of that.........I also think it has a lot to do with the picture taker too.......some shots are just to hard to get if they are moving to fast so use the great VIDEO feature on the camera which works great.

I have not used everything by far on the camera but so far I love it......and the BEST SHOT feature is amazing........we use it for eBay stuff all the time and it works great.

OVERALL I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS CAMERA TO ANYONE........IT IS A GREAT CAMERA FOR THE PRICE!!!