Casio EXILIM Pro EX-F1: 60fps - the end of shaky/blurry UFO videos?

mrk · 7 Jan 2008 at 04:16

Maybe!

DPreview said:
CES 2008: Casio today announced its EXILIM EX-F1 - a six megapixel camera with 12x zoom and some very impressive burst shooting capabilities. Capturing up to 60 frames per second at full resolution and a staggering 1200 fps if you drop the image size to 336 x 96, this innovative camera will also shoot 1920 x 1080 Full HD movies at 60fps. Helping to ensure the moment isn't missed is a buffer system which continually updates then saves the contents to card when the shutter is released. Illumination is taken care of by a conventional strobe which works at up to 7 fps and a cellphone-style LED for 10-60 fps. The EX-F1 will be available from March 2008 priced at $999.99.

I'm interested in knowing if this is in fact true 60fps (like for example many compacts that are 5mp but in fact are interpolated to 5mp etc) if so then where does this leave the dslr if these slr style cameras can shoot hd video and capture at such high framerates!

Edit*

After looking at the spec:

DPReview said:
Continuous shooting 60 fps at full resolution for 1 second or 5 fps for 12 seconds
With flash: 7fps

Seems it's not "that" awesome but is still impressive - 60 shots in 1 second for 1 second or 5fps for 12secs.

Raikiri · 7 Jan 2008 at 04:29

1200FPS

Slow mo awesomeness. You been reading Engadget or Digg?

mrk · 7 Jan 2008 at 05:19

iGoogle

Logsi · 7 Jan 2008 at 05:47

ignore

Aod · 7 Jan 2008 at 08:14

to make this actually useful, they'd need to increase the buffer size to allow shooting the 60FPS video for longer. up to 30 seconds is needed i think
i've got a fuji compact with their "super CCD" that will happily shoot 640x480 video at 30 (true 30) untill the memory card is full. obviously this shoots at a much higher resolution, but just one second of video isn't worth the bother.

balls · 7 Jan 2008 at 10:47

Not really sure of its usefulness, however 5fps normally isn't too bad.

sean · 8 Jan 2008 at 01:14

Aod said:
obviously this shoots at a much higher resolution, but just one second of video isn't worth the bother.

There doesn't seem to be an actual limit on 60fps video (at 1080p), it's only the full 6 megapixel burst mode that's limited to one second of recording. At least that's how it looks from where I'm sitting.

Bloomin impressive either way tbh :eek: