Talys said:
Huh. I guess I was not alone walking down Best Buy wondering, who bought Casio cameras :-\
It is a pity, because I always liked them as an electronics gadget company as a kid. My first digital watch!
I've worn their watches and still use their calculators. For a basic calculator with scientific functions, theirs deals with normal algebraic notation and precedence like I expect them to.
My first digital camera was a Casio. They were experimenting with trying to make a little more high-end camera, so they made one with a Canon lens. It got excellent reviews. I bought it before my Alaska cruise in 2002. I saw a review that compared five, I think, cameras of the period. The Casio was rated as good as any, even though the others were much more expensive. It was already sort of in closeout mode by the time I got mine. They threw in an IBM hard drive that fit the card slot, needed since memory was so much more expensive then. It took not quite 4 megapixel photos. I have a picture I took with it of the Grand Pacific Glacier on my wall in a 13" x 19" print. It looks great. In theory, I know that it shouldn't hold up that well enlarged that much, but it does.
I think they found that the Casio name was associated with cheap gadgets and so didn't get the respect they needed to do higher-end stuff. I can understand why their class of cameras would not appeal to much of anybody now that cell phone cameras are so decent.
I recently decided to make prints of three of my Hawaii pictures to put up in my front room, where they would fit the décor. I went to find the original RAW files of the pictures so I could make good versions for printing. I couldn't find one of them, and discovered the original JPEG in the folder of the few iPhone pictures I made during the trip. So I now have on the wall an enlargement of a picture I made with my iPhone 6S. It looks like you are looking out the window at the beach. I made the other two pictures with my G7X II.
