Summer ‘08 Compacts - Casio Exilim S10

tech: Summer ‘08 Compacts - Casio Exilim S10

June 20 2008 | Arnold Pistorius

For the final part of our Summer digital compact group test I have the razor-thin Casio S10. This has got a massive 10 megapixel sensor, making it the highest-density snapper on test.

One of the highlight features of the camera is its ability to shoot direct to YouTube format, using the funky little record button on the back. This makes it stunningly easy to take stupid holiday videos and put them up for all your mates to see.

The Casio is our five-star group test winner - check out the video to see why!

-Wil

comments

Christopher Lloyd

June 21st, 2008 - 12:43pm

Erm… The other parts were very good reviews… but what was it with the completely over the top effects on the photos that you tool! There was so much wooshing I couldn’t see the pictures clearly!

Jazza

June 22nd, 2008 - 11:11am

I agree with Christopher, too much wooshing. couldn’t see what you were talking about. And isn’t there too many photo options on this camera. 35!!!

Khoji

June 26th, 2008 - 12:11pm

Great review but by praising the 10-megapixel chip as a big plus you’re helping the manufacturers to go on producing increasingly bad cameras. The 10mp sensor is NOT a “huge” sensor it is a tiny sensor with even tinier pixels. That is not good, that is very, very bad. It means low sensitivity and fuzzy, artefacted, over-processed images (just display them 1:1 on the screen and you will see it).

A 5mp or even a 3.2mp sensor in the same camera would produce radically better images. You would have much better low-light performance, better colour rendition and crisper, sharper looking photos. And nobody in the target audience would miss all the “additional” pixels that really just reduce the quality of the images.

Large pixel counts only make sense on physically large sensors. In small P&S cameras they are a marketing gag purchased at the expense of image quality.