Casio Exilim EX-F1 6MP 12x Zoom 2.8-Inch LCD Pro Digital Camera 

with CMOS Shift Image Stabilization

It comes with a 150 page physical. In legible (generally) English. The zillion options. One very polite present, you can code it to reminisce most settings. If you want the exhibit to adjourn off (which I want usually) you can set it to do that, even if you break it off and on. It seems to have good sensitivity, the look stabilizer facility utterly well.

As a still camera, about median. As a film camera, a lot for the money. It shoots standard capture, HD (1080p, 60 Hz) and speedily video, up to 1200 fps. Low resolution above 300 fps, good for clothes that go bump, not for notion presentations. The 30-300 fps adjustable location is not so convenient, you have to set the build regard each time you score. It should be programmable. The 300 fps rigid backdrop has a resolution of about 512x390, good enough for most sports work.

A remark on pixels. The Ex-F1 has a 6 Mp feeler. You can get a lot more than that for excluding money, but it's more marketing than actual. You have to look at the feeler (CCD/CMOS) volume. Real world lenses are limited to about 100 line pairs per mm in what they can resolve. Based on the specs for the Ex, it tries to get 200 lp/mm. So, not truthful. My little Olympus P&S is over 400 lp/mm. You just can't get there. Fewer pixels for a given flake bulk mostly means better light sensitivy. That helps more than anything also.

For my use, mostly in sports, a very good compromise. The CS prerecord sort is very good. You can get 60 detailed resolution frames before you squash the secure. It stores them in domestic recall and saves after you lobby the close. So you can see what happened just before (up to 60 fps, programmable) With a 16Gbyte SD card, about $25, you can save over 4500 rounded resolution movies.