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Casio Exilim EX-FH20 Reviews Analysis

Digital camera - compact - 9.1 Mpix - optical zoom: 20 x - supported memory: MMC, SD, SDHC, MMCplus More product details

Casio Exilim EX-FH20
alaSCORE 95

209 reviews

November, 2009

74 / 100

87 Experts

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We compute this summary by analyzing 209 reviews from across the web.

image quality

1.5

  • Image stabilization offers only slight benefit at full telephoto
  • image quality drops rapidly at ISO 200 and above
  • quality lacking
  • Image stabilizer didn't seem very effective in movie mode
  • No image viewer included
  • Image adjustment
  • True optical image stabilization (albeit not the most effective we've seen
  • Speedy image playback
  • Speedy image playback, very easy to step between images, whether singly or in groups
  • Image stabilization is less effective than that of many competitors
  • some image problems
  • Smaller imager offers less image quality
  • Multi-motion Image mode
  • Sharpness and quality of pictures
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price

0.5

  • mediocre photos for the money
  • How many people will use it enough to justify the price
  • Expensive
 

performance

4

  • slow startup
  • small buffer makes processing batches of images slow
  • Higher frame rate videos lack quality & resolution, slow startup, small buffer makes processing batches of images slow, white balance inconsistent
  • Slow startup time
  • slow write times
  • High-speed features work as promised
  • high speed still and movie capture
  • Amazing, and unique, high speed still and movie capture
  • Generally good shooting performance
  • Stunning ultra high speed continuous shooting and movie modes
  • Certain high-speed modes are finicky
  • Unique scene modes: high speed anti-shake / night scene
  • Unique scene modes: high speed anti-shake / night scene, move in/out CS
  • high-speed capture and HD movies
  • Amazing high-speed continuous shooting
  • Amazing high-speed continuous shooting, 40 frames at up to 40 frames/second at 7 megapixels, 8 megapixels at lower frame rates
  • Good low ISO performance
  • Nice design, Comfortable to hold, Good macro, Good low ISO performance, 20x optical zoom, Loads of fun with the slow motion video (see below)
  • Unique high-speed feature
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memory

0.5

  • storage
 

focus

0.5

  • Autofocus system often struggled to lock focus
  • Focus fixed on first frame of Continuous Shutter mode bursts
 

color

5

  • white balance inconsistent
  • including white balance
  • Image adjustment, including white balance, available in playback
  • Significant chromatic aberration in the corners and edges of the frame at both wide and tele focal lengths
  • Slightly odd color rendering: Most colors are quite accurate
  • Slightly odd color rendering: Most colors are quite accurate, but yellows through oranges shift toward a yellow-green bias
 

lens

2

  • Lens distortion at telephoto
  • Lens could break easily
  • Lens comes out too far
  • 20X optical zoom lens
  • 20X optical zoom lens, with great 26 - 520 mm range
  • Long, 20x optical zoom lens
 

zoom

5

  • lock zoom
  • 20X optical zoom
  • 20x super zoom
  • Design over EX-F1, 20x optical zoom
  • smooth and responsive zoom
  • Possible to zoom during movie recording (but sound of zoom motor will affect audio track
 
  • To find this level of time-stopping ability in the same package as a very credible long-zoom digicam
  • To find this level of time-stopping ability in the same package as a very credible long-zoom digicam, all for under $600 at retail represents an extraordinary bargain
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LCD

5

  • large screen
  • 3ďż˝ color LCD TFT display (230
  • 3.0 inch LCD
  • Large 3-inch LCD display
  • Large 3" LCD
 
  • No tilt-swivel LCD
  • active children
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video

5

  • no optical zoom when shooting video
  • High-speed video resolutions are too small
  • I can understand why - but audio muted on high speed video
  • I can understand why - but audio muted on high speed video, shame it could not be recorded seperately - and I know if it were voices it would be out of sync
  • High Speed Video needs a reasonable light
  • Super-fast burst modes and video
  • high definition video
  • 000fps video and 40fps photography is great fun
  • 1,000fps video and 40fps photography is great fun
  • HD video
 
  • high frame rate video
  • 20x super zoom, HD video, high frame rate video
  • high-def video recording
  • Even more amazing high-speed movie recording
  • a particular nuisance for video recording
  • No tilt-swivel LCD, a particular nuisance for video recording
  • the FH20's video modes reaching well into the hundreds of frames/second can provide amazing images and insights
  • And if you really need to get down to the nitty gritty of time and space, the FH20's video modes reaching well into the hundreds of frames/second can provide amazing images and insights
  • Loads of fun with the slow motion video (see below)
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design

5

  • comfortable body design
  • Natural looking colors
  • Design over EX-F1
  • Nice design
 

shutter

5

  • Excellent shutter lag at wide angle focal lengths
  • Virtually no shutter lag (10 msec
  • No "early shutter penalty" in single-shot mode (No penalty for pressing the shutter button too quickly after the previous shot
  • Long shutter lag at maximum telephoto
 

usability

5

  • Occasionally annoying to use
  • Use of M-JPEG codec means large movie files
  • Sparse controls
  • Full complement of manual and automatic features
  • easy to hold and operate
  • Full manual controls
  • easy to hold
  • very easy to step between images
 
  • Decent array of manual controls
  • easy
  • very easy to use
  • easy, very easy to use
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build quality

5

  • Generally good build quality
  • solid-feeling construction
  • Nice, solid-feeling construction
  • comfortable design and construction
  • Solid, comfortable design and construction
 

flash

1

  • Flash has a tendency to flatten
  • without flash in low light conditions a little grainy - need to select Best Shot Night mode to compensate
  • No provision for external flash
 

interface

5

  • Excellent user interface for dealing with masses of burst-mode images on playback
 

exposure

5

  • Lots of exposure options and adjustments
 

viewfinder

5

  • intriguing slow motion view mode
 

contrast

3

  • Purple fringing is noticeable along high contrast edges
  • including full PASM modes and contrast/saturation tweaks
  • Lots of exposure options and adjustments, including full PASM modes and contrast/saturation tweaks
  • but contrast and Dynamic Range Extension options help with this
  • Slightly limited dynamic range, but contrast and Dynamic Range Extension options help with this
 

resolution

3.5

  • 000fps is at too low a resolution to be much more than a fun gimmick
  • 1,000fps is at too low a resolution to be much more than a fun gimmick
  • Higher frame rate videos lack quality & resolution
  • High frame rate movies are very low resolution
  • Lowers resolution for hi-speed fps
  • 40fps shooting mode at 7MP resolution
  • 9.1Mp maximum resolution
  • 40fps shooting mode at 7MP resolution, 9.1Mp maximum resolution, 20X optical zoom, 3ďż˝ color LCD TFT display (230,400 dots), Sensor-shift image stabilization
  • High-resolution
  • High-resolution, 3.0 inch LCD
  • Lowers resolution for hi-speed fps, Flash has a tendency to flatten, Lens comes out too far
  • 000 frames/second at tiny resolution
  • 210 frames/second at quite decent resolution
  • as high as 1,000 frames/second at tiny resolution, 210 frames/second at quite decent resolution
  • Electronic Viewfinder has very good apparent resolution
  • Electronic Viewfinder has very good apparent resolution, despite modest pixel count
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appearance

5

  • DNG RAW format only available at ISO settings of 100-200
 

sensor

5

  • Sensor-shift image stabilization
 

menu

5

  • Good control layout (PASM in menu system is slightly awkward
  • Good control layout (PASM in menu system is slightly awkward, but necessary for them to be included in HS modes
  • And if you really need to get down to the nitty gritty of time and space
 

battery

5

  • eats batteries
  • eats batteries, storage
  • Eats up batteries like no tomorrow
  • Above average battery life
  • uses AA batteries
  • Somewhat limited battery life
  • Somewhat limited battery life, despite good CIPA numbers
 

reception

5

  • Well implemented face detection feature
  • face detection
 

portability

5

  • lots of light required
  • easy to see outdoors and in low light
  • light and compact
  • allows magnific low-light pictures
 

size

1.5

  • A tad large
  • A tad large, loss in fps over EX-F1
  • you're going to want a big
 

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