Casio Exilim EX-ZR200 High Speed 16 MP, 12x Optical Zoom Compact Digital Camera (White)

This is the best electronic device I have purchased for a long time. I have had the cannon powershot and Pansonic Lumix camera's which are meant to be decent point and shoot devices but they are sooooo.... slow taking the shot that have we missed most of the spontaneous fun times when our children have been playing. There is nothing more mood killing for a child than have the parent say 3, 2, 1 ........ before the camera is ready to take one shot. Even then after the shot was taken it seemed that the quality was no better than our phone camera's????So after reading many reviews it became clear that what I need it very fast shutter speed and great quality optics. The Casio Ex-Zr200we beats all the competitors by a mile for these two requirements especially when you look at the price (cost me $170 new from a Japanese seller on Amazon), I have more great shots of my kids laughing and having fun from one 2 minute session on the deck than I have over the last 3 years. I just asked them to have fun and took picture after picture (there is no delay between photos and it has a burst mode that is just insanely fast) we ended up with 20 photos, fantastic quality, with our kids smiling and laughing.The panorama mode workes very well, which I really wanted for when we travel. The zoom is much more powerful than my other cameras but the quality of the image does degrade if you use the max zoom. The camera feels very solid, and looks great. I would recommend you purchase the SanDisk Extreme 32 GB SDHC Class 10 sd card, it is very fast and does not slow down the camera at all, much faster than most of the class 10 cards and about the same price ( I purchased a refurbished card from a Hong Kong company on ebay for $ 22 and it is working great)I purchased the camera from SUNONE, in Japan. I was worried that I was going to get ripped of but they did deliver exactly what they promised a new camera in the box with all the accessories for about $ 100 less than buying locally. They did take a long time to deliver, nearly a month, and never responded to my questions but in the end I would buy from them again because the price was so good and they did give exactly what they promised. The camera was set up in Japanese but it is easy to change the language using the comands in the menue. The manual is in Japanese but you can download a english version from the web.There are a lot of other features that I am going to have fun playing with but the photos I have now of my kids have made this the best purchase I have made for a long time.

Full disclosure first: I'm a huge Casio digital camera fan. I've had the EX-M20U which is a remarkable camera the size of a few credit cards, the EX-Z75 which is built like a tank, the EX-V8 which packs a 8x optical zoom into a small/protected package and takes super shots, the EX-G1 which is water/shock resistant camera you can take anywhere any time, the EX-H10 which is another tank-like camera that takes excellent photos and has a battery that lasts twice as long as any other I've seen (I've never drained it in use), and the EX-ZR100 which is a computer-like camera and with its HDR feature allows you to pull great photos out of difficult lighting. Every single one of those cameras takes outstanding quality photos -- and in outdoor contexts sometimes truly stunning photos.And now the EX-ZR200 ...I considered the EX-ZR300 but went with the EX-ZR200 because I didn't need the additional (non photo-quality-related) features.The EX-ZR200 is an improvement of the excellent EX-ZR100. Both take quality photographs. The EX-ZR200 is faster to start and has USB charging; it also allows HDR-art movies (but unfortunately not HDR movies).The controls are straightforward -- and the settings are plentiful/useful. The Best Shot options cover a wide range of situations (and you can set up your own modes). In my opinion no other camera manufacturer has better internal image processing software than Casio. Sharp, clear and true to life.Apart from image quality, the camera is compact. It fits well in hand. It has superb battery life. The build quality is excellent. It is also attractive.I don't post-process my photos. I crop or straighten now and then. But with this camera you don't have to post-process to end up with excellent output.Highly recommended!ASUKA of Japan was an excellent vendor. The camera arrived within four days -- a day earlier than expected. Brand new; unopened box. All I needed to do was change the language of the menu settings to English (from Japanese).

Bought this camera for the ability to shoot high speed video. This is my second camera first lasted about a year before high speed video stop working, so I would recommend to get an extended warranty

This does everything I wanted. The 1000 fps video works ok, you can clearly see the action.The zoom is great. When taking regular photos, the rolling shutter is pretty slow, for example I tried to take a picture of lightning using burst mode and the bolt only ever appears in a few horizontal lines.Using the self timer to take a self portrait is almost impossible unless you use manual focus. The auto focus doesn't work until you touch the shutter button, so it ends up focusing on the background and holding that focus after you step into the shot.Overall, I love it.