Bought this camera for my wife: she loved the stylish red color, big screen, and small size of the camera. Took nice pics. For a week. Then it broke. The power would come on, but the lense would not extend and the camera would not technically “power up”. Talked to Casio, they said send it in for repair (at my expense). Sent it back for a refund from J&R, and they were great at processing that. Overall, this was my first, and probably last, Casio camera. Really disappointed that it stopped working within the first week, makes me wonder about the overall quality of their products. Bought a Canon instead. I give this product 3 stars, which I think is more than fair, considering how long it lasted.
Rating: 3 / 5

This camera literally lasted me one year and for the price I paid for it is truly not worth it. The reason why I bought this camera is that my brother had won one in a contest. We were out at a night club and it worked soo well in dark picture settings, I was impressed immediately. So I bought one ,almost within a month, and was satisfied with the ease of use and picture quality. The zoom is not really super great since it’s only 3x at 10.1 mega pixel. I guess if you want a better zoom go somewhere else. After a year of wear and tear the camera started acting up while vacationing out of the country. The zoom button was acting up and the view picture started freezing. I can only say that this manufacturer must not make good quality cameras like Canon or even Kodak does. It never fell on the ground or even mishandled. I usually have my digital cameras for years. My previous digital was a Canon and I replaced it with this poor quality one instead. I would not recommend buying this digital camera unless you like to waste money and purchase a new one every year.

Oh and if you want to hear something even better, I was within warranty and their customer service tells my husband and I to send it certified mail through USPS. Upon arrival, they state my camera has a broken side and voided my WARRANTY wiithout stating it on a letter sent back to me tell me that the only issue I had was a broken/error card or whatever. I had to call them to find out why they were charging me half of what I paid for this camera in the first place to fix it. They tell me that it was only b/c there was a damage on the camera that they voided the warranty. The customer service representative goes on to tell me that….’isn’t it better to call us instead of finding out on paper that your warranty was voided?’ Not sure what anyone else may take of this, but doesn’t sound like a great manufacturer to me. And to set the record straight the camera was in perfect condition, only scratches from every day wear and tear, never fallen on the ground and the only thing I can get out of all this was the camera was damaged in transit through USPS. They had told me to send it certified mail in the first place, BUT the stipulation with USPS is that by sending anything via certified mail it does not insure anything you send out. So go figure? Great suggestion Casio!

So there you go, my bad experience with Casio. Never again, they are better as manufacturers for calculators! Buy a Canon instead.
Rating: 2 / 5

I had this camera for less than a year before it broke. I took great care of it and always kept it in its case. Around one month after I purchased it, the zoom broke. About 5 months later I was using it and it would turn on for 1 second, make two clicking noises, and then turn off. I took it to the camera repair shop and they said it would cost over $200 to fix it, which was even more than I originally paid for the camera. When I tried to contact Casio, they were extremely unhelpful and just had automated computer response e-mails which were sent back to me. Overall, this camera was not great and I would never purchase a Casio again.
Rating: 1 / 5

As with all the Exlim Casio cameras, excellent. We have recommended Casios to many and all have been happy with their purchase. We do miss the docking station/charger of our previous model, but the additional pixels of this model make up for that loss.
Rating: 5 / 5

I’m not sure what the deal is, it’s all very fishy.

But I bought 2, and both were DOA. The first one was clearly used, and had to go back. It wouldn’t save pictures to the internal memory.

The second one is new, but literally DOA. I charged the battery up, put it in the camera. It let me set up my time/date/etc. Then once it started to ‘boot up’, and the zoom extended? The camera crashed and would not power on at all after that. The lense clicks twice and it turns off. No good. It even had dead pixels!

I’m very frustrated. How bad can quality control be that I can get two DOA’s in one night? It’s bad enough that it’s a 35 minute drive to the Best Buy. So ridiculous….

— Update:

It took me 3 tries to get this model camera from Best Buy without it being DOA. 3 DOA’s…. How does that happen? Well, 4th was the charm.

Once I got one that worked, I was happy. Great pictures, great color, amazing clarity, the size… I like the plum color, too.

Now, a month later, I’m miserable. The once clear pictures are nothing but blurry, over exposed, and full of glare. Everything is washed out and blurry.

This model camera has serious defects. Serious, serious defects. Do not buy. Every picture looks like it was washed with bleach, and smeared around in photoshop. It doesn’t get much worse.
Rating: 1 / 5