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The EX-H5, Fulfil your wildest expectations
The EX-H5 brings together fantastic quality and a sophisticated design. The combination of the 24 mm wide-angle lens, the mechanical image stabiliser and the 10x optical zoom enables you to capture any subject, from sweeping landscapes to detailed close-ups. The 12.1 megapixel resolution is ideal for enlarging and printing up to poster-sized images. The EX-H5 can also take high-resolution HD videos. Fulfil your wildest expectations with the EXILIM EX-H5 digital camera.
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24 mm wide-angle lens
Whether for landscape photos, tourist sights or group pictures in confined spaces, the 24 mm wide-angle lens makes the EX-H5 your perfect companion whatever the occasion. The 24 mm focal length allows you to capture a larger area and include more friends in a group photo from only a short distance away.
EXILIM Engine 5.0
The digital brain of the EXILIM camera is the EXILIM Engine 5.0. This innovative image processor functions according to a completely new concept to achieve particularly bright colour reproduction, high image quality and quick response times: The processor offers even better performance and is even faster, ensuring effective moiré and noise suppression without losing details. The EXILIM Engine 5.0 masters all challenges such as backlighting, portrait, landscape and night shots or poor lighting conditions. What's more, the image processor offers clever functions, such as Intelligent Colour Technology, the new Dynamic Photo function or the improved Make-up Mode.
12.1 megapixels
Within its compact and elegant housing, the EX-H5 hides 12.1 megapixels, which don't just give you spectacular photos but also ensure outstanding detail. 12.1 megapixels are perfect for editing, enlarging and printing sections of photos without any reduction in picture quality.
10x optical zoom with mechanical image stabiliser
It's easy to zoom in on those special moments: the 10x optical zoom can bring even the most distant subjects right up close, while the mechanical image stabiliser automatically reduces blurring. The EX-H5 has everything you need in any situation and guarantees outstanding photos.
HD video recording
The HD video recording feature on the EXILIM EX-H5 allows you to shoot high-resolution and detailed videos with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels - simply press the Movie button and start recording. What's more, the 16:9 wide-screen format gives your video clips an expressive, professionally filmed character.
* Max. recording length 29 minutes/video
Face detection
Whether you're on holiday, at a party or spending time with your family - people are particularly popular subjects for a photo. It's always a pity when faces turn out blurred on a picture. The Face Detection now offers the perfect solution, recognising the individual faces or even entire groups, and automatically applying the best possible setting.
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BEST SHOT Art Shot
Produce real works of art with the new BEST SHOT "Art Shot": With the new EXILIM Engine 5.0, the "Art Shot" can convert ordinary subjects into artistic images. Simply choose between Oil painting, crayon and watercolor - your photos are converted into little masterpieces without special artistic talent and expensive paints.
NEW: Extended Dynamic Photo function
With the extended Dynamic Photo function you can continue to cut out subjects from an image series, position them in front of a different background, change the size and combine them with fun animations. In addition, you now have even more amazing new options: Add a single stationary subject or one or more moving subjects into your films! A special highlight: You can not only provide animation for subjects that you add to your film, but you can also insert your own handwritten texts. What are you waiting for? Get creative, bring your snapshots to life and surprise your friends with a fun "Dynamic Photo" greeting with a personalised message!
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Make-up Mode
The EXILIM EX-H5 also features a Make-up Mode Function for especially appealing portrait photographs. The outstanding image processing makes the skin on faces appear smoother and softens facial shadows caused by strong sunlight or illumination. You can select from twelve levels as desired - from minimum to maximum - and observe the effect on the TFT colour display while taking the photo
Lighting function
The EX-H5 can recognise and correct difficult light situations: the light function optimizes the brightness of faces automatically even in scenes with backlight simply by pressing the release button. Even the sky or buildings in the background that are subject to overexposure are rendered in full colour.
Hand-held night scene
With the newly developed image processor EXILIM Engine 5.0, your camera recognises dark or night scenes automatically. Without the help of a tripod, the EX-H5 reduces camera shakes, creating sharp, bright portraits and night shots.
Product Description
- 12.1 megapixels
- 10x optical zoom
- 24mm wide angle lens
- 2.7-inch LCD
- HD video
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83 of 83 people found the following review helpful
By James
Colour Name:Black|Amazon Verified Purchase
I read about this type of camera ("compact travel zoom") in a review at DPReview, and it struck a chord with me: a small camera with a lens that does wide-angle and decent zoom. I've been fed up with carting a DSLR around on holidays, but I like the wide-angle. So, I thought I'd punt a few quid and see how it worked out, figuring that £120 or so isn't bad for what promised to be a good bit of kit. I should add that I have had a couple of Casio EXILIM cameras, so I didn't have any fundamental concerns about the brand, quality, etc.
Anyway, to cut to the chase, the camera is outstanding. The picture quality is excellent, nice vibrant colours, sharp focus, and amazing wide-angle photos or zoomed-in details. As with all EXILIM models, you get a terrific range of options to get the best pictures.
Its image stabilisation means it takes good pictures in fairly dim light. Indoors, in the evening, in a normally lit room, you get a nice clear photo, without flash. This gives you natural-looking photos, and how many cameras at this price can boast this? Also, the HDs videos are pretty good. You can walk and video at the same time and the picture doesn't shake at all. Sometimes the video stabilisation "jumps" if you are really shaking the camera around, but it's a not a problem mostly and in any case you can switch it off or alter the settings if you're going to be running around a field!
Best of all, in my opinion, is the battery life. I've taken nearly five hundred photos so far, and loads of videos, and I've charged the battery up once. It's supposed to do about 1000 photos between charges, which I reckon is perfectly achievable if you don't take videos. This means that you could take the camera on holiday fully-charged and leave the charger at home. What's amazing is that the battery itself is tiny!
The EXILIM cameras let you change a number of settings on a quick menu: you can change the picture size / aspect ratio (especially useful if you like the "shape" of conventional 35mm photos), flash modes, autofocus modes, autofocus points, shutter mode up to 10fps shooting, if you want, and that's before you get into the proper menus! From there you get to dig deeper into the cameras functions if you so wish.
Other reviewers mentioned the Best Shot features. To be honest, I rarely use them -- it does a good job in most situations in the default settings -- but the many Best Shot modes are good at taking difficult photos. For example, "Night time portrait" (which I've used once at the Vatican) will let you take a self-portrait photo of yourselves in front of a monument at night. It takes a really long-exposure photo of the background and then flashes briefly to light you up in the foreground. This is a difficult shot to achieve even with a top-notch DSLR, but the Casio does it with one setting. There are about 40 different Best Shot modes including Portrait, Self Portrait, Night Time Portrait, Scenery, Portrait with Scenery, Food, Children, Autumn Leaves, Flowing Water, Natural Green, Flowers, Pets, Party, etc.
Writing this just prompted me to look through the BS modes and some of them are incredible: for example, the Self-Portrait setting lets you click the shutter, then (at your leisure) point it at your face. When it sees your face in the frame, it takes the picture. Good stuff. The Self-Portrait (2 person) setting does the same... but it waits for you AND your buddy to get into the frame! Amazing! Perhaps I'll start to use them a bit more now.
Anyway, enough rambling. Buy this camera. You won't regret it.
UPDATE: 26 Feb 2011
Had the camera for a while now and taken hundreds of pictures with it. Still absolutely chuffed with it.
One point of note though -- if you want to take HD video, you MUST have a high-speed SD card. If you use an older, or slow, card then it won't be able to keep up with the amount of data that the camera is taking, and you will lose sound after 20-30 seconds. If you have a high speed card, the card can cope fine and this problem won't occur. I would recommend you test your card by shooting a video for more than minute or so. If you watch the screen it shows a little "REC" symbol in red. If this starts to flash, it means that the card can't keep up. In the manual, it recommends a card with a transfer speed of 10MB/second or above. I ruined all my first videos on holiday :-( then started to use these and all was well: Sandisk Ultra 15MB/s SDHC Card 8GB - Retail Pack
Anyway, to cut to the chase, the camera is outstanding. The picture quality is excellent, nice vibrant colours, sharp focus, and amazing wide-angle photos or zoomed-in details. As with all EXILIM models, you get a terrific range of options to get the best pictures.
Its image stabilisation means it takes good pictures in fairly dim light. Indoors, in the evening, in a normally lit room, you get a nice clear photo, without flash. This gives you natural-looking photos, and how many cameras at this price can boast this? Also, the HDs videos are pretty good. You can walk and video at the same time and the picture doesn't shake at all. Sometimes the video stabilisation "jumps" if you are really shaking the camera around, but it's a not a problem mostly and in any case you can switch it off or alter the settings if you're going to be running around a field!
Best of all, in my opinion, is the battery life. I've taken nearly five hundred photos so far, and loads of videos, and I've charged the battery up once. It's supposed to do about 1000 photos between charges, which I reckon is perfectly achievable if you don't take videos. This means that you could take the camera on holiday fully-charged and leave the charger at home. What's amazing is that the battery itself is tiny!
The EXILIM cameras let you change a number of settings on a quick menu: you can change the picture size / aspect ratio (especially useful if you like the "shape" of conventional 35mm photos), flash modes, autofocus modes, autofocus points, shutter mode up to 10fps shooting, if you want, and that's before you get into the proper menus! From there you get to dig deeper into the cameras functions if you so wish.
Other reviewers mentioned the Best Shot features. To be honest, I rarely use them -- it does a good job in most situations in the default settings -- but the many Best Shot modes are good at taking difficult photos. For example, "Night time portrait" (which I've used once at the Vatican) will let you take a self-portrait photo of yourselves in front of a monument at night. It takes a really long-exposure photo of the background and then flashes briefly to light you up in the foreground. This is a difficult shot to achieve even with a top-notch DSLR, but the Casio does it with one setting. There are about 40 different Best Shot modes including Portrait, Self Portrait, Night Time Portrait, Scenery, Portrait with Scenery, Food, Children, Autumn Leaves, Flowing Water, Natural Green, Flowers, Pets, Party, etc.
Writing this just prompted me to look through the BS modes and some of them are incredible: for example, the Self-Portrait setting lets you click the shutter, then (at your leisure) point it at your face. When it sees your face in the frame, it takes the picture. Good stuff. The Self-Portrait (2 person) setting does the same... but it waits for you AND your buddy to get into the frame! Amazing! Perhaps I'll start to use them a bit more now.
Anyway, enough rambling. Buy this camera. You won't regret it.
UPDATE: 26 Feb 2011
Had the camera for a while now and taken hundreds of pictures with it. Still absolutely chuffed with it.
One point of note though -- if you want to take HD video, you MUST have a high-speed SD card. If you use an older, or slow, card then it won't be able to keep up with the amount of data that the camera is taking, and you will lose sound after 20-30 seconds. If you have a high speed card, the card can cope fine and this problem won't occur. I would recommend you test your card by shooting a video for more than minute or so. If you watch the screen it shows a little "REC" symbol in red. If this starts to flash, it means that the card can't keep up. In the manual, it recommends a card with a transfer speed of 10MB/second or above. I ruined all my first videos on holiday :-( then started to use these and all was well: Sandisk Ultra 15MB/s SDHC Card 8GB - Retail Pack
103 of 104 people found the following review helpful
By collywobbles
Colour Name:Red|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bought this camera for my wife. She is a very keen amature photographer, but produces some lovely shots.
It really is a fantastic little camera. The 10x optical zoom lense is very clear and focuses easily on objects, even a tiny boat several hundred meters out to sea from the top of a cliff.
Although it has 12Mpixels you can get very nice quality pictures using the 5 Mp setting which is more than enough to view clearly on a 32" tv screen.
It has a physicaly tiny flash, but it is surprisingly powerful.
The best detail for us was the "best shot" feature. There is a setting for almost every situation. All you do is choose the setting, point the camera and take the picture. The camera dose the rest. It even puts make-up on the portraits, lol. (true)
For the price this is a wonderful camera and I would recomend it to anyone.
Just two observations which might help. Get a good quality camera case, just a small one, to protect it against knocks. And get a spare battery as the one that comes lasts easily a whole day of constant photograpy, but if you forget to recharge it, you will need a spare. They aren't very expensive, I got one for less than a fiver.
Edited 1st October:
A detail my wife found, which is annoying, is that there is an on/off button on the top, but the camera button on the back also turns the camera on and extendes the lens. She heard the lense motor straining when the camera was in her trouser pocket and had accidentaly turned on while she was sitting down. For such a fine camera it is a disappointing design fault.
It really is a fantastic little camera. The 10x optical zoom lense is very clear and focuses easily on objects, even a tiny boat several hundred meters out to sea from the top of a cliff.
Although it has 12Mpixels you can get very nice quality pictures using the 5 Mp setting which is more than enough to view clearly on a 32" tv screen.
It has a physicaly tiny flash, but it is surprisingly powerful.
The best detail for us was the "best shot" feature. There is a setting for almost every situation. All you do is choose the setting, point the camera and take the picture. The camera dose the rest. It even puts make-up on the portraits, lol. (true)
For the price this is a wonderful camera and I would recomend it to anyone.
Just two observations which might help. Get a good quality camera case, just a small one, to protect it against knocks. And get a spare battery as the one that comes lasts easily a whole day of constant photograpy, but if you forget to recharge it, you will need a spare. They aren't very expensive, I got one for less than a fiver.
Edited 1st October:
A detail my wife found, which is annoying, is that there is an on/off button on the top, but the camera button on the back also turns the camera on and extendes the lens. She heard the lense motor straining when the camera was in her trouser pocket and had accidentaly turned on while she was sitting down. For such a fine camera it is a disappointing design fault.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By P. Bridges
Colour Name:Black
This is a great little camera, it is extremely easy to use and has loads of extra features. The small instruction book that comes with it is very very basic,but I managed to purchase an instruction manual over the internet for a nominal charge which I have found invaluable, and was amazed at what can actually be achieved with this camera. Would have no hesitation in recommending this camera to others.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
small but good
superb camera the wide lense takes excellent shots i am well satisfied wether it be portrates or views great value
Published 16 days ago by Mrs. C. Mcphail
4.0 out of 5 stars
Casio EX-H5
Previously I owned a Casio Exilim EX-Z300 which was absolutely great. I bought the Exilim EX-H5 because of the more powerful zoom. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kim
3.0 out of 5 stars
Camera review
Everything was fine the first few times i used it and the lens of the camera has an error message
Published 3 months ago by ruth
5.0 out of 5 stars
Has served me well
I have had this camera since July 2011 and its been a treat to use. The extra best shot modes really do enhance certain shots. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Paul Price
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great Exilim model
I have owned several Casio Exilim cameras over a number of years. I really like them.
But I've often wondered why Casio put out so many different Exilim models. Read more
But I've often wondered why Casio put out so many different Exilim models. Read more
Published 13 months ago by T. Dean
4.0 out of 5 stars
casio Exilim EX-H5
Very easy to use,ideal pocket camera for those impromptu photos. A few good in-camera processing programs, removing the need for post processing. Read more
Published 15 months ago by anglo saxon
1.0 out of 5 stars
casio camera
had this camera for just over a year now and has broken twice!not impressed at all.
would return it but out of warranty now
would return it but out of warranty now
Published 16 months ago by bert
4.0 out of 5 stars
Incompatible
One of the reasons why I bought this camera was that I was starting to become unhappy with the results of my previous Casio camera. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Robin Michael
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Camera i've ever owned
Thought I'd do a quick review of this camera after using it a few months.
Good Points:
-Takes amazing quality pictures
-10 times zoom is very handy and allows me to... Read more
Good Points:
-Takes amazing quality pictures
-10 times zoom is very handy and allows me to... Read more
Published 18 months ago by JAE
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Camera
Used this camera on a trip to South of France. Is an excellent point and shoot, although the flash is not the best and you can accidentally block it with your finger. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Michael Perry
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