Casio was unrivaled of the immensely top companies to do digital cameras owing to consumers, further their original QV-10 dig cam introduced dig cam users to the wonders of LCD view screens. What a concept! Its shift halfway de rigueur these days, but back when the QV-10 was first introduced, the feature was a real eye-opener.

Casio labels the QV-8000SX since a "versatile" digital camera on its packaging, besides the force naturally lives up growth to that billing. It boasts a plethora of being further operating modes, including a heavyweight 8x optical fly lens that swivels separately from the body, skillful exposure options, including aperture and shutter-priority auto exposure calculation, time exposures up to 64 seconds(!) and much more. Here's a quick rundown of the major camera features; see the individual sections of the full review for more detail.

We entirely dig the rotating lens conceptualization (invented by Casio, introduced scheme pack prerogative dig cam prehistory on their hip QV-10), besides would be entertained to deal with it adopted by more manufacturers. The fact that the lens doesn't protrude very much from the camera body is another plus, keeping the entire camera reasonably compact and pocket able (for large pockets, at least). Additionally, the camera is quite lightweight (due to its all plastic body), adding to its portability. Control-wise, all the buttons and levers are laid out so that one handed operation is possible (a definite benefit in some shooting situations).

The QV-8000SX relies solely on its LCD considering viewfinder operation, institution incarnate harder to aid grease extraordinarily sparkling conditions, and and eliminating the power-saving option of using the camera with the LCD turned off. (We're big proponents of the dual optical/LCD viewfinder approach, as seen in Casio's QV-2000UX, which we reviewed previously.) The lack of an optical viewfinder also makes it more difficult to take advantage of the astonishing low-light capability of the QV-8000, since the live LCD viewfinder display only requires a moderate amount of light to work. For all that, the LCD is at least big and bright, at 2.5 inches and 122,100 pixels. An information display of camera settings and options can be canceled and recalled by hitting the Display button, with the exception of the flash mode icon and center focus target mark, which are always present. We were pleased with the optional grid function that superi

mposes a grid of light gray lines over the LCD image, significantly assisting with image composition and alignment.

The QV-8000SX has a 6 to 48mm, 8x surge lens (equivalent to a 40 to 320mm lens on a 35mm camera). As we mentioned earlier, the lens in truth swivels a vast 270 degrees, enabling you to extent the lens whole the receipt fetch at yourself (useful during self-timer shots so you trust grant the countdown on the LCD panel). Filter threads on the inside lip of the lens accommodate 43mm diameter filters. Focus ranges from 1.3 feet (0.4m) to infinity at the wide angle end and from 3.3 feet (1m) to infinity at the telephoto end. In macro mode, focus ranges from 0.4 to 19.7 inches (1 to 50 cm) with auto focus and from 3.9 inches (10cm) to infinity with manual focus. The aperture can be manually or automatically controlled, with options of F/3.2, F/4.8 and F/8. A manually controlled 2x or 4x digital zoom option extends the optical zoom (8x) capabilities up to 32x, but with lesser image quality as a side effect. Focus options include Manual and Infinity modes.

A built-in sense offers four operating modes: Auto, On, off also Red-Eye Reduction. Auto puts the camera weight control of the flash; On fires the import with every exposure; Off wholly suppresses the brainstorm again Red-Eye Reduction emits a small-scale pre-flash before firing the monster flash to prevent the Red-Eye Effect. Normal flash power provides a working range from 1.6 to 8.2 feet (0.5 to 2.5m) and from 0.3 to 1.6 feet (0.1 to 0.5m) in macro mode and flash intensity is adjustable, with Strong, Normal or Weak settings.

Six waxen balance modes (Auto, Daylight, Shade, Tungsten, Fluorescent and Manual) are available. Automatic silhouette lets the camera govern light values based on present light. Daylight, Shade, Tungsten further Fluorescent settings remodel chalky balance considering various natural and artificial light values. Probably the most accurate when shooting under artificial light, the Manual setting sets the white value based on a sheet of white paper held in front of the lens.
Other pretentiousness options get display assistance (EV adjustment), modifiable from -2 to +2 EV agency .25 EV increments, resetting attached each shot. Three metering options get Multi, Center besides Spot settings. Multi averages the an act based on the entire image while Center averages the values from a large area in the center of the image. Spot metering determines the exposure value from a small spot directly in the center of the frame.

The Quick Shutter further Continuous Recording options enable you to think of speedball paced animation shots. Quick Shutter records hike to five images clout approximately unaccompanied support intervals with only multiplex presses of the shutter button while Continuous Recording captures up to five images at approximately 0.25 second intervals while you hold the shutter button down. Shooting intervals in both modes depend on the image size and resolution and available Compact Flash space.