Comments on: 7.2 Megapixels In Your Pocket

By: Archiver

Archiver — Tue, 02 May 2017 02:36:31 +0000

Hi Mike, it’s a voice from the past. When you wrote this review and posted sample images and video, you probably didn’t think you’d propel a fair number of people to buy the Z750. I was one of the folks marveling at the quality of the Pike Place video you posted above, and that video was one of the things which convinced me that the Z750 was the ultracompact stills and video camera that would satisfy me.

The Z750 was on my hip from 2006 to 2009, collecting images, video and audio throughout Australia, China and Hong Kong. Other cameras surpassed it over time, but the Z750 was with me everywhere because of the sheer convenience.

Thanks for the review all those years ago, and for showing us a glimpse of Pike Place Market. Seeing that guy throw a huge fish across the stalls surprised the heck out of me.

By: Alistair G.

Alistair G. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:25:39 +0000

To Wayne above, you probably already know this but when you change the battery and leave it more than a minute or something between batteries, it forgets the time since the internal capacitor discharges. Swap the batteries reasonably fast and it doesn’t forget the time. Maybe your original battery is dying and causing the camera to forget the time?

Well I bought this EX-Z750 camera for 50 GBP from Ebay a few months ago and I love it. You can set the shutter speed to shutter priority and like Mike says above it remembers the shutter speeed that you set, next time you go to switch it on! So you only need to ever set it once!

Only the Z750 and Z850 and the Fuji F31FD and latest 14MP Nikon can do this, that I am aware of.

Also it can be run in Aperture Priority but you can only choose between 2 apertures, which are F2.8 or F4 at min. zoom, these 2 apertures go smaller as you zoom but max. out at F5.1 and F7.4 at the long end of the zoom. It has full manual controls and an optical viewfinder that zooms at the same time as the main zoom lens!, plus I wear glasses and can still see the whole frame of the viewfinder! Battery life is very good, low light noise performance is OK but quite a bit better when you reduce resolution. As usual ISO 400 is close to unusable except at very low resolutions.

It won’t focus very close even on min. zoom which bugs me a bit, and on max. zoom it has to be a silly distance away, but it’s auto focus is actually pretty good. Pic’s are reasonably sharp and colourful with good contrast. The 3 limiting factors to this camera’s performance are the noise above ISO 100, the aperture that can’t be closed (slight softness to pic’s) and the lens won’t focus close.

I find that the macro setting mode makes no difference to close focussing which I thought was odd. Screen is quite bright, replacement batteries are cheap, and it’s a reliable camera and very easy to use. The auto settings are very good. I use a mixture of auto and manual. I like that you have 5 settings for flash intensity, useful for close up’s in detail work. Screen is quite bright but the 850 is quite a bit brighter. So I use a 2.5″ Delkin DU2.5″-M pop up screen shield (shade).

It takes good quality SD movies at 29.97 Frames / sec. with good sound with good frequency response at bass and treble ends BUT you can’t hold it steady enough as the camera is way too light for this function so everything shakes no matter how steady your hands. My Sony PC120E camcorder produces WAY better movies since it has a mass of around 600g which absorbs the shakes of my hand (my hands are actually quite steady compared to a lot of people) due to having much greater momemtum. Also the optical steady shot on the Sony makes quite a difference. There is NO steady shot of any kind on the EX-Z750. I use a Sandisk Extreme III 2GB SD card and it’s fine. You need outdoors conditions with reasonable light to use the full resolution on stills and see no noise in the pic’s. The screen picture magnification goes up to 8x. The lens zoom is 3x (optical). Digital zoom on the movies really sucks bad so never use it. There is NO optical zoom on movies while recording, which really SUCKS bad. The Sony kills it since it has 10x optical zoom for movies. So for movies it’s just about passable in a pinch, but for stills it’s a really great very flexible camera.

Recommended.

If I wanted a better camera I would want better low light (noise) performance (I DON’T WANT OR NEED MORE MEGAPIXELS), I would want the ability to CLOSE the cursed aperture to smaller than F4 (preferably to F8 or F10) on min. zoom, which would increase pix. sharpness greatly and increase depth of field, and I would want a quite a lot brighter screen because in daylight most of what you see is yourself reflected in the screen! (screen not bright enough). For movie mode I would want an almost miracle like optical image stabiliser, and the camera to be thinner, but HEAVIER to make movies stop shaking. All of these would be much more beneficial to the final image than giving me 1 more megapixels of noisy output…

Cheers,

Alistair G.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:17:32 +0000

i bought the casio ex-z1000 at costco a couple years ago – and it worked fine until now – it goes into set date time and location mode every time it’s powered on – do you know of a fix for this problem? i have tried reset and reformat to no avail – is there a master reset trick? i would rather not have to send it in if there is a quick fix – let me kknow if you can help – thanks!

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:57:54 +0000

Alistair: Yes, it does. Both cameras.

By: Alistair G.

Alistair G. — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:08:40 +0000

Hi, please can you tell me whether this Casio Z750 camera is able to stay in the “Shutter Priority” mode, even when you power off and power back on, or do you have to go back into the menu system when you power back on because it forgets? I would really appreciate an answer to this. Same question for the Z850 if you get your hands on one.
Many Thanks,
Alistair G.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:37:13 +0000

I forgot to say the camera is still under guarantee but they claim damage has been sustained. Goofers. The fault it has is independent to a small tend on the case.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:35:21 +0000

I have the same problem with the SET and Zoom buttoms not working. I sent it back to Casio (in England) and they want to charge me Â£82.99 to fix it. Hate them. I will sell it faulty on ebay and will never come near casio rubbish again. They are quoting me to replace the optical lensunit and optical stobe and the exterior case.

Good luck

By: Frank Hammel

Frank Hammel — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:59:58 +0000

Hi,

I have the same problem with the SET button AND the ZOOM lever. Eventually they stopped working, which makes operating the camera quite hard :-) I cannot even install the new firmware (1.02) because that requires a working SET button. Obviously that happens quite a few times as I can read on other sites, but no solution to it yet. Please help if you can.

Thanks !

By: Travis Hellstrom

Travis Hellstrom — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:01:48 +0000

I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but my SET button is no longer working. To make matters worse I took out my battery to try to fix it and now it asks me for the date every time I turn it on. Is anyone else’s SET button not working?

Thanks!

By: Mike Davidson - The Blue Angels: Universally Awesome

Mike Davidson - The Blue Angels: Universally Awesome — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:18:11 +0000

[…] out on the Lake to snap some nice shots of the Boys in Blue and even shoot a bit of video. This little Casio EX-Z750 continues to amaze me. The video quality is stellar, especially for something that fits in your […]

By: MikeF

MikeF — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:44:59 +0000

I’ve had the EX-Z750 for a bit over 3 years, but the lens error cropped up finally, last summer. I did nothing to cause it, I’ve always taken immaculate care of it. So disappointing, as I’ve loved this camera. But what I really don’t understand is that after this much time, with this problem effecting so many people, there aren’t some technical instructions posted somewhere on the web for people who are willing to tear into an out-of-warranty camera and take their chances fixing it. It must be the only thing that does NOT exist on the Internet.

By: cheyanne

cheyanne — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:55:56 +0000

ok well i have a smalll problem i bought a sony digital camera in 2007
and im trying to figer out how to get sound on it for the video..
it does not say on the insturtion with the paer it came with..

from cheyannr thankxs

By: Mike Davidson - A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras

Mike Davidson - A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:01:32 +0000

[…] I bought my first truly great ultracompact a few years ago, the Casio EX-Z750, I was in this boat. 7.2 megapixels in your pocket… what more could one possibly need? After eventually moving up to the excellent 7x zoom Casio […]

By: Ron Baynes

Ron Baynes — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:46:51 +0000

I have been using an EXZ750 for about a year and getting excellent results. After reading about difficulties with made-in-China versions, looked closer for manufacturing country and there it is “Made in China”
Obviously this oesn’t prove that some or even most of the China models are defective but apparently there are exceptions to the rule. By the way,
can anyone recomment a site to go to for a good deal on a Kingston memory card?
RB

By: JD

JD — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now, you have me confused. I was actually saving money for buying digital SLR but I can’t help but agree with the fact that taking great photo is about being at right place at right time. By the time my SLR will boot up, the great moment might have passed. Hm…can someone gift it to me please? ;)