Is the Casio EX-S12 Camera With Dynamic Photo Worth the Hype?
Most point-and-shoot camera makers are marching in lock step — all introducing features such as fancier face detection, higher light sensitivity, and larger LCD screens. Casio is playing along, but it’s also adding more-powerful image processing — allowing its cameras to capture photos in high-speed bursts, shoot slow-motion video, or track fast-moving subjects. What it is: Casio’s EX-S12 (and a sister models, the EX-Z400 and EX-Z270) use this extra processing power for a new function called Dynamic Photo that lets you cut a still subject, or even a stop-motion video clip, from one shot and insert it into another. Why it’s different: Cameras have been adding editing capabilities, such as removing red-eye but Casio is the first to put compositing — making a new image with portions of other photos — into a point-and-shoot. Does it live up to the hype? Absolutely not. The prescribed process for creating these images with the EX-S12 is arduous, with a low success rate. And even when th
