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Casio has today announced its first camera to incorporate ceramic lens technology, which has a higher refractive index and is stronger and thinner than glass. The 3.2 megapixel Casio Exilim Card EX-S100 is made of stainless steel, which gives it a nice heavy feel, and is the smallest 2.8x optical zoom camera in the world, just 17mm thick. A large 2-inch screen dominates the back of the credit card-sized camera, which has no optical viewfinder. It will be priced £349 ($399).
August 25th, 2004, LONDON, UK – CASIO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. has announced the world’s smallest* digital camera with an optical zoom (2.8x), the “EXILIMÆ CARD” EX-S100. The camera owes its exceptionally compact design to another world first – the application of ceramic lens technology, providing a great advance in optical quality with a strength even greater than glass.
In 2002, CASIO launched the first EXILIM digital camera, an ultra-thin credit card sized camera designed as the ultimate in point and shoot photography. The camera could be carried easily, and enabled photography for any occasion, anytime and anywhere, having a huge impact on the digital camera market overnight and helping the ultra-slim genre to become a major segment of its own. Since that first EXILIM, CASIO has continued to create even thinner cameras with more rapid responsiveness and superior performance, creating an EXILIM lineup that has
expanded to become a trend setting force in the marketplace.
The new “EXILIM CARD” EX-S100 was developed as the defining model of the series, and as such, represents all the brand concepts. The key features of the EX-S100 are the use of the world’s first transparent ceramic lens within an ultra-slim 2.8x optical zoom lens unit, and CASIO’s original EXILIM Engine, an ultra-compact image processing LSI module that enables the camera to achieve high image quality, high speed operation and low power consumption – all within an extremely slim and compact body package. As a result, the EX-S100 is the world’s smallest optical zoom equipped digital camera, with a volume of just 79 cc and measuring a very compact 88 x 57 mm. Moreover, it is only 16.7mm thick, and just 14.2mm at the thinnest point.
The EX-S100 features a stainless steel body, a hallmark of the EXILIM CARD series, which has been polished to a brilliant shine through a special process. It is created entirely of metal, right down to the screws, for a true feeling of high quality. The front of the camera has been given a fresh look, with a theme of circular patterns to highlight the shape of the lens, while the back of the unit features a more square look that matches the impressively large 2.0” TFT LCD screen. In keeping with the distinctive form of the other models in the EXILIM CARD series, the lens area itself protrudes slightly from the body of the camera.
With a 3.2 megapixel CCD for superior high resolution photo imaging, a unique quick response design and the BESTSHOT function making it easier to capture desired scenes, CASIO has again proven that it is the leader in ultra-compact cameras that offer astonishingly advanced performance.
*as of August 25, 2004
EX-S100 Features
2.8x optical zoom
Only 16.7 mm ‘thin’ – stylish body that’s the size of a credit card
Comprehensive design approach for rapid response
Other features
| Sensor | • 1/3.2" Type CCD |
|---|---|
| Image sizes | • 2048 x 1536 • 2048 x 1360 (3:2) • 1600 x 1200 • 1280 x 960 • 640 x 480 |
| Movie clips | • 320 x 240 (15fps) unlimited depending on the size of memory card |
| File formats | • Still: JPEG (Exif 2.2) • Movies: AVI (Motion JPEG) • Sound: WAV (monaural) |
| Lens | • 36 - 102 mm (35 mm equiv) • F4 - F 4.8 • 2.8x optical zoom |
| Digital zoom | Up to 4x |
| Focus | • Contrast type AF (selectable between spot, multi); pan focus, macro mode, infinity mode, manual focus • Program mode |
| AF assist lamp | Yes |
| Focus distance | • Normal: 40 cm to infinity • Macro: 17 cm - 50cm |
| Metering | Multi pattern |
| ISO sensitivity | • Auto • ISO 50 • ISO 100 • ISO 200 • ISO 400 |
| Exposure compensation | • +/- 2EV • 1/3 EV stops |
| Shutter speed | 4 - 1/2000 sec |
| Aperture | F4/F8 |
| Modes | • Still |
| Image parameters | • Color saturation • Contrast • Sharpness |
| Scene modes | BESTSHOT modes |
| White balance | • Auto • 6 modes • Manual |
| Self timer | • 2 or 10 secs • Triple self timer |
| Flash | • Auto, On/Off, Red eye reduction • Range: 0.4 m to 2.5 m (W) 1.5 m (T) |
| Viewfinder | No optical viewfinder |
| LCD monitor | • 2" TFT LCD • 84,000 pixels |
| Connectivity | USB |
| Print compliance | DPOF |
| Storage | • SD/MMC card • 9.3 MB internal memory |
| Power | Lithium ion rechargeable battery |
| Weight (no batt) | 113 g (3.9 oz) |
| Dimensions | 88 x 57 x 17 mm (3.4 x 2.2 x 0.7 in) |
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