Casio's EX-FH20 reviewed: perfect for YouTube slow-mo junkies, nobody else

The key to any good pseudo-educational show featuring demonstrations that typically result in explosions (i.e. Mythbusters) is super-duper slow-mo sequences that expand those fleeting instants of incredibly expensive pyrotechnical glory into multiple minutes of time wasted between commercial breaks. If you're looking to record your own similar antics, amateur-style, Casio's time-stretching shooter the EX-FH20 is for you, delivering decent image quality and a bevy of burst and slow-mo modes that will capture 7 megapixel stills at 40 fps and 1000 fps video at 224 x 56. However, if that sounds rather gimmicky to you, according to PhotographyBLOG's full review there's really nothing noteworthy about the machine which, at $600, is out-paced and under-cut by other, similar SLR-lite options like Canon's PowerShot SX10. 'Nuff said.

[aedile Posted Nov 19th 2008 11:06AM]

Uhhh... Can I just say "Screw You Guys"? I like mythbusters.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 5th 2008 3:59PM]

i.e. is not the same as e.g.

The proper usage in this case would be e.g.

[Bock Posted Nov 19th 2008 11:24AM]

Meh, I like this camera, hope to get it by the end of the year. I wish it had a Canon lense though and perhaps better image quality. Well most important of all would be a lot cheaper, but heh oh well.

[fieldcar Posted Nov 19th 2008 11:53AM]

The photographs just plain suck for a camera of that price, but you cant deny its high speed video capabilities being worth the price. C'mon Tim(engadget author), It's really not meant to compete with the canon sx10, its meant to push the envelope on prosumer high speed video capture. Up until these casio cameras your options were to have nothing or pay $10,000 and have something that was completely boxy, large, and not at all portable.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2008 12:08PM]

the PowerShot sx10 doesn't do 1000 fps video at 224 x 56. 'nuff said.

[conscious Posted Nov 19th 2008 12:56PM]

watch me pass this up in 1000fps.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2008 1:07PM]

Hate on the camera all you want, but don't be hating Mythbusters. The show rocks. Plain and simple. Insulting others smarter than you doesn't make you look intelligent, it just makes you look like a fool.

If you had one tenth the experience, skill, and intelligence those guys possess, you'd have a real job instead of just posting junk like this.

I would much rather have the young folks of today watching pyrotechnical bliss and actually learning something instead of watching the rest of the crap that's on TV these days.

Here's a good look at what college students these days are capable of:

http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Michael_Olesker/The_sad_sad_state_of_college_English.html

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2008 6:35PM]

The only reason I watch Mythbusters is to laugh at all those factual errors those two brain dead idiots make in the shows but at the end of each episode I cringe knowing that those factual errors are passed on as actual truths.

James Earl "Jamie" Hyneman and Adam Whitney Savage knows nothing about everything. The only thing they actually are good at is blowing things up. ohh, wait. they don't blow things up, it's the bomb technicians they hire to work on their shows that actually blows things up.


The link you provided gives me a 404, not found message.....

[Temple Posted Nov 19th 2008 1:19PM]

The review gave it four out of five stars (recommended), not sure how Engadget can manipulate this into a plug for Canon.

Also this camera shoots in 720p@30fps, the Canon can't even shoot HD movies (also NOT youtube resolution or quality). Also, the low-res is for the crazy 1000fps movies, you can shoot high-res perfectly fine.

Also this camera takes stills at up to 40fps. The Canon SX10 is barely over 1fps.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2008 1:25PM]

This camera is great for golf photos as well. It can slow down the swing and be used for teaching.
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[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2008 3:08PM]

There are some serious Mythbusters fanboy in here! Can't you just take a joke? He didn't say the show was crap.

Next, what part do you not understand in "if that sounds rather gimmicky to you" ? That means if you don't need slow-mo, the camera is to pricey for what it does.

No need to hang the guy for this. It's not even an IPhone vs totally-random-non-related-object post, for which you should rightfully hang somebody if someone does not agree with you.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2008 3:16PM]

typo last line: SLR-like*

[bishopdante Posted Jan 5th 2009 10:24AM]

This will be very handy for school science labs though, the 1000fps low res option means that you can actually measure events to within 1000th of a second.