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Review by Kool Dad for Casio Exilim EX-Z29 10.1 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.7-Inch LCD (Purple) 
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Well, I my review might be a little jaded since I’m used to using DSLR cameras that produce brilliant pictures but I’ll give you my opinion anyway. For $70 bucks I guess it’s worth it to have a camera that you can just throw in your pocket and use for snapshots. In low light your gonna get allot of “redeye” because the flash is so close to the lens. Outside in well lit area i.e. daytime the camera works good. It’s also very slow between shots (must be the processor) again I’m used to cameras that can take several shots a second.

Bottom line: If you want a basic camera to take ok snapshots and you can get this camera on sale for $70.00 I’d say it’s a good buy. If you want more speed and better pictures in low light look somewhere else.

UPDATE: 5/28/10 My son dropped the camera into the dogs water bowl that was full. The camera was submerged for 10-20 seconds. Without turning the camera on I removed the battery and the memory card and let the camera dry for twelve hours. The camera works fine.

UPDATE: 6/24/10

I’ve owned this camera for two months now and It’s just a piece of crap. Theres no better way to put it. Whites are too easily washed out. Redeye is awful, and the time it takes the camera to process the pictures in between shots is forever. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

Review by trinidaddy for Casio Exilim EX-Z29 10.1 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.7-Inch LCD (Purple) 
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Bought the previous model EX-Z9 with 8.1 megapixel in a cool orange metallic housing almost two years ago on a sale for $89.–for my wife. I was a bit sceptic about the CASIO brand for a camera, a CASIO for me is a watch… As a photo enthusiast for more than 30 years I owned Olympus, Nikon, Pentax, Minolta, Canon, Sony, Kodak and even a Polaroid camera. I figured, since when I switched from using 35mm cameras to digital, the life expectance of those is an average 2 years. Because they are so handy to be always carried around you drop them, you loose them, they got pickpocket in a crowd at a concert, wet up while I’m sailing or they just die the magic electronic or fine mechanic death. The very same CASIO EX-Z9 actually only lasted for four month…. it got stolen in a break in our apartment… Ok, back to the subject, in those 4 month we had this camera it impressed me compared to it’s price, with the excellent quality of the pics it took, nice zoom, powerful little flash, easy to use menus, the sturdiness of the housing made more from metal than plastic, it’s small size easily fitting in a shirt pocket, it came with a rechargeable lithium ion battery and travel charger and it’s cool look (it wasn’t pink…).

As a replacement I got for my wife last year on a Amazon Gold Box Deal for the same $89.– a Nikon Coolpix L20, 10 megapixel, at that time I couldn’t find a CASIO in that price class and the Nikon was rated in more than a 100 reviews with an average 4 stars. It turned to be out bigger and heavier than the CASIO, didn’t came with rechargeable batteries, has an all plastic housing and I noticed the picture output on crisp shots, specially with flash use was far higher with the CASIO in auto mode than with the Nikon.

I myself own a bigger and more professional Canon PowerShot G10 and now put the Amazon Gold Box offer for $69.– for the CASIO EX-Z29 despite it’s pink in my shopping basket, so I have a nice little camera to carry around all the time…… just will have to hide it away from my wife….!