Yesterday I bought a used Casio Exilim EX-FH100, a similar model which I had for three years from a young man who sold it for just S$75.00 after using it for his project requiring slow motion video. I like the compact size and 10x zoom capability of the little camera, so as soon as I saw the advertisement, I ordered it without negotiation.
As I had all the settings finalised on my camera over the years of using it, I had forgotten about all the settings I set until I took out and started shooting with the newly acquired EX-FH100. I could not get what I used to get on my original Casio. Only after a little while, I realised that the new Casio was not set up in the way I used to have.
The camera has settings for memory which would remember the settings for AF Area, metering, ISO, white balance etc. My preference is using spot metering and also spot for AF area, without memory settings, these settings need to be set every time. That's why I could not get what I want as I could not remember those settings until I digged further on the Menu settings.
The problem with most of the cameras today is too many settings and the settings are not set to be the best practical options. The novice users are left with too many options they would not be able to understand if this is their first camera.
However, after say that, I also start to appreciate the level of control in this camera, the information display on screen as photos are taken. As I learn to look at the histogram, I like the feature of on screen histogram display on the left instead of in the middle as in my Olympus E-P1.
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