Casio EX-V8 Review

Pressing the Play button brings up the image last captured. The default information is displayed: image size (8-megapixel), quality (Fine), file number, battery level indicator, and time and date of capture are shown. Pressing the 4-way controller left or right scrolls through the stored images. A "musical note" icon (not shown) indicates there is an audio memo attached, press the SET button to play the audio. Pressing the DISP button enables the display of the exposure data: EV compensation (0.0), Shutter speed (1/640), Best Shot mode used (Auto), flash mode, white balance (AWB), metering, Aperture value (f4.6), ISO used (ISO 50) as well as the histogram. Pressing it again removes all information from the screen.

The playback image can be magnified up to 8x when you press the telephoto button. You can scroll around inside of the enlarged image. Pressing the wide angle button will shrink it back down again.

Here you can see the playback of a movie, which is saved in .MOV format. It gives you "VCR" like buttons to control Rewind, Play, Fast-Foward, and Stop.

You can edit the length of the movie clips.

MENU (Setup tab):

Slide Show - Plays a slide show of all the pictures on the memory card with effects
Layout Print - Select a print Layout
MOTION PRINT -Prints one or multiple frames of a video
Anti Shake - On, Off
Movie Editing - Allows for in-camera editing of movies
Dynamic Range - +1, +2
White Balance - Allows you to change the white balance of the selected photograph
Brightness - -2, -1, 0, 1, 2
Keystone - Straightens pictures of business cards or documents
Color Correction
Calendar - Brings up the camera's calendar
Favorites - Show, Save
DPOF Printing - Date Stamping and Number of copies to print
Protect - Protect selected images
Date / Time -Set date and time
Rotation - Rotate selected picture
Resize - Make the current picture smaller
Trimming - In-camera cropping tool
Dubbing - Adding audio to the photograph
Copy - Copy pictures back and forth between the memory card and the camera

Audio memos up to 30 secs. can be recorded and attached to still images. You can also play back your audio-only clips. The sound will be heard through the camera's built in speaker.

If you shot your picture at the highest resolution and need it for email or web use then select the Resize option and create a 6m (2816 x 2112), 4m (2304x1728), or VGA (640 x 480) size image.