Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 Digital Camera

[Jim Saueressig]

Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 Digital Camera

Anyone ever read up on this thing? I never heard of it before tonight. Its not a DSLR but the features were surprising:

6 Megapixel Resolution/12X Optical Zoom (35mm film equivalent : approx. 36 to 432mm), CMOS sensor, high speed LSI processor

Using the still image burst mode, users can shoot at an ultra fast 60 frames per second. In burst mode, the frame rate can also be varied from between 1 and 60 frames per second while shooting. Up to 60 shots can be taken at once, so 60 shots per second for one second, or 5 shots per second for 12 seconds, are possible.

High Speed Movie Recording Up To 1,200 Frames Per Second
The EXILIM Pro EX-F1 can record high speed movie footage of motion too fast for the human eye, for ultra slow motion playback. Users can select a recording speed of 300 fps, 600 fps or 1,200 fps. There is also a Movie Button that lets users quickly start movie recording without first switching from still image mode.

Full High-Definition Movies
The camera features Full High-Definition movie recording capability. Users can record beautiful movies at a screen size of 1920 x 1080 pixels, at a rate of 60 fields per second. The camera can be connected to an HD compatible television with a separately available HDMI cable to enjoy viewing movies.

Thats pretty impressive stuff.

http://www.exilim.com/intl/ex_f1

 

[Mike Peregrine]

I think there will come a day when we are only using one camera out there for both stills and video simultaneously.

There are some new players that are essentially using RAW digital to create video, which allows a videographer to work with video the way still photographers process digital photographs. Luminous Landscape recently ran an article on the subject here.

There are the typical hurdles at this point ... cost of the cameras and the big one, cost and capability of the computers needed to process such enormous file sizes. But eventually, the lines between still and video will blur and we will be able to pull high quality stills out of video streams, and easily use interchangeable lenses to shoot video.