EXILIM - EXILIM Zoom EX-Z400

EXILIM Engine 4.0

EXtreme Power

Backlight, portrait photos, night-time photos and poor lighting conditions - the new EXILIM Engine 4.0 image processor enables you to overcome all these challenges. The EXILIM Engine 4.0 processes complex images very quickly and ensures excellent image quality with moiré and noise suppression, making it a pleasure to take and view excellent photos. And the best is yet to come: even with the wide range of new functions and the complex data processing, the energy consumption has been reduced by almost 30%, increasing the battery life significantly.

Mechanical image stabilisation

Outstanding pictures

It is virtually impossible to hold a camera absolutely still. Even the slightest movement can cause blurring and lack of clarity in the photo. The mechanical image stabilisation captures these movements and balances them out mechanically with the help of CCD shift technology, reducing the likelihood of blurred photos to a minimum.

Dynamic Photo Function

Discover the artist in you

With the Dynamic Photo Function, you can cut a motif out of a photo which has just been taken and use another photo as background. You can even cut out several photos from series shot and insert them to show a moving object on a still background. Create a unique image where only the motif moves – with no editing on the computer.

Multi-motion function

Always on the move

The BEST SHOT function Multi-Motion-Image enables you to capture a movement sequence in just one single photo. Take a photo of the moving motif in front of a still background. This motif is photographed in a series of images which are compiled to one single picture by the new EXILIM Engine 4.0. This enables you to capture movements such as a snowboarding jump from the launch to the landing on one single photo.

Hand-held night scene

Steady hand

With the newly developed image processor EXILIM Engine 4.0, your camera recognizes dark or night scenes automatically. Without the help of a tripod, the EX-Z400 reduces camera shakes, creating sharp, bright portraits and night shots.

Lighting function

Rich colours

The EX-Z400 can recognize and correct difficult light situations: the light function optimizes the brightness of faces automatically even in scenes with backlight simply by pressing the release button. Even the sky or buildings in the background that are subject to overexposure are rendered in full colour.

Face detection function

The simple touch

Whether you're on holiday, at a party or spending time with your family - people are particularly popular subjects for a photo. It's always a pity when faces turn out blurred on a picture. The Face Detection function now offers the perfect solution, recognizing the individual faces or even entire groups, and automatically applying the best possible setting.

Make-up Mode

Feel like a model

The EXILIM Zoom EX-Z400 also features a Make-up Mode Function for especially appealing portrait photographs. The outstanding image processing makes the skin on faces appear smoother and softens facial shadows caused by strong sunlight or illumination. You can select from twelve levels as desired – from minimum to maximum – and observe the effect on the TFT colour display while taking the photo. The EX-Z400 has a separate "Make-up Mode Button" to activate or de-activate the function quickly.

Find out more about the Make-up Mode Function

BEST SHOT motif programmes

You don't need to be an expert to create great photos

From "Landscape" and "Portrait" right through to "Night scenes" or "Retro" look – your EXILIM EX-Z400 adapts flexibly to a whole host of requirements. To ensure that all your photos and movies are a success from the start, the flat digital camera comes with 39 presettings for a wide variety of situations. With BEST SHOT, you can also create and save your own settings, which can be selected at any time.

Overview of all BEST SHOT motif programmes

BEST SHOT-Button

Why hide?

BEST SHOT motif settings are extremely practical and therefore can be accessed immediately at the touch of a button. From "Landscape" to "Sunset" your EX-Z400 readily adjusts to the most varied demands, regardless of whether you are taking photos or movies.

Auto BEST SHOT

Just press and hold the button to take your shot

The EXILIM camera takes control of all settings and automatically selects the ideal BEST SHOT subject mode for the current situation. So you can simply enjoy the moment and concentrate fully on your subject.

Overview of all BEST SHOT motif programmes

Auto Shutter function

Enjoy the moment

Blurred images are usually the result of an unsteady camera action or subjects that move while the release button is being pressed. EXILIM offers a simple solution to the problem of blurred or shaky photos: The new Auto Shutter function can automatically determine the perfect moment to take a photo.

Working in conjunction with the Anti Blur Auto Shutter, Pan Auto Shutter, Smile Detection Auto Shutter and Self Portrait Auto Shutter functions, the new technology ensures rapid focus and takes the photo automatically when the image is steady, so the result is not impaired.

Anti Blur Auto Shutter

Hold it there!

The practical Anti Blur Auto Shutter function helps prevent shaking and blurring caused by movement; it does this by taking the photograph at the precise moment when your hand or the moving subject becomes still.

Pan Auto Shutter

Always on the move

Fast-moving subjects are hard to capture on camera. When you activate the Pan Auto Shutter function, the photo is automatically triggered as soon as the moving subject becomes still in the frame, e.g. when you follow it with the camera.

Smile Detection Auto Shutter

No smile, no photo!

Smile and the world smiles with you! The innovative Smile Detection Auto Shutter function ensures that you will never again miss that smile when taking photos. Press the release button as soon as you have the faces in the frame. The photo will then be taken, fully automatically, once the subjects are smiling.

Self Portrait Auto Shutter

Are we all in the photo?

Totally practical: the Self Portrait Auto Shutter function enables the camera to recognise faces. Once the release button is pressed, the camera prepares to take the photo and automatically does so once the faces of the subjects are located within the frame.

Advanced Auto Tracking AF Function

Everything in view

Dogs running, kids jumping around, moving cars - there are countless examples of moving subjects, which can try the patience of even professional photographers. Thanks to the Auto Tracking AF function with motion analysis, you can relax and concentrate on the overall subject. Press the release button half way down, to fix the focus for saving – as soon as you see the picture you want, simply press release!

28 mm wide-angle lens with 4x optical zoom

So far — so good!

The combination of the 28 mm wide-angle* design and 4x optical zoom makes the EX-Z400 the perfect companion for every occasion — you have plenty of scope to take photos, be it of your loved ones, beautiful sights or romantic sunsets. Whether you're in a small room, a car or on a ferris wheel – the 28 mm focal distance enables you to capture a larger area, allowing you to snap more of your friends for posterity in a close-up group photo, and much more.

*equivalent to 35 mm film

Photo Formats

It's your choice

You're in charge – you can choose between 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9 formats. That is particularly practical if you will be showing your pictures on a screen, television or video projector with this format. The 3:2 format is the classic format for photos. With the aid of the 4:3 format you can admire your photos on the TV or on your PC. The 16:9 format is best suited to plasma and LCD-televisions.

Trimming

Custom-made

With trimming you can define sections of a photo while they are still in the camera and save them as separate shots. And so, for example, you can just cut a person's face and print it out as a photo - even without a computer.

Passport Photo Function

Passport photos at the click of a button

Stress and instant-photo booths are a thing of the past. Using the BEST SHOT programme for "Passport photos", you can take several passport photos in various standard sizes in seconds – ready to print and cut out.

HD video recording

Ready for the movies!

You can now film your videos in high-definition quality*! Using the HD Movie Function in the EXILIM EX-Z400, you can make colourful and high-detail videos with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels – simply press the movie button and recording begins. Moreover, the 16:09 wide-screen format gives your video clips an expressive, professionally filmed character.

*Max. recording duration of 10 minutes/video

YouTube™ Capture Mode

Share your videos with your friends!

It has never been easier to upload your own videos to YouTube™: With the EX-Z400, you can film* your most memorable moments directly in a video size and quality optimised for YouTube™! The exclusive software makes uploading** your videos to YouTube™ child's play.

*Max. recording duration of 10 minutes/video
** To upload your videos, you need an Internet connection. This may entail additional costs.

Pre-record mode

Do you want to film the past?

Pre-record can do just that! If you do not press the shutter release on time in important moments, the past 5 seconds will already have been saved!
How does Pre-record work? In this mode, the camera is constantly making recordings - and when you press the shutter release, the last 5 seconds are added to your current recording.

12.1 megapixels

Impossible to ignore

The EX-Z400 CCD chip offers an amazing 12.1 megapixels. The camera delivers crystal-clear and extremely detailed photos. Even magnifying details and photos to poster size is not a problem — outstanding quality and no loss of image detail.

Bright and high-contrast 7.6 cm (3.0 inch) TFT colour display (Super Clear LCD)

Total clarity

The EXILIM EX-Z400 features a large, bright 7.6 cm (3.0 inch) TFT colour display (Super Clear LCD) that permits viewing from almost any angle. In addition to the large viewing angle and a high resolution of 230,400 pixels, the TFT colour display provides above-average contrast, thus assuring an especially clear and sharp image of your subject. The display offers above-average brightness to simplify viewing of your images even in sunlight. You can select from 5 presets to match the brightness to the ambient lighting conditions: 0/+1/+2/Auto1/Auto2

Super Life Battery

Extreme power

The combination of an ultra-efficient processor and a powerful lithium-ion battery ensures that the fully charged EX-Z400 can produce up to 550 photos to CIPA standard.

Various Flash

The flash for every situation

You can adapt the flash of the EXILIM Zoom EX-Z400 to different situations. The following presets are available for this:

• Red Eye-Reduction: reduces the "red eye effect"
• Soft Flash: for ideal illumination of the immediate area
• Auto: flash is switched on automatically when required
• On: flash always switched on
• Off: flash always switched off

AV socket

TV show instead of slide lecture

Invite your friends and relations to enjoy the best movies and photos in large-scale format. You simply connect your EXILIM Zoom EX-Z400 to a TV using the AV output.

Memory card slot

However you want

The EX-Z400 can save your photos and movies on SD/SDHC, MMC/MMCplus or Eye-Fi Wireless cards as desired. You can now decide which of these optional cards to use spontaneously and flexibly.

Specifications

Number of Effective Pixels			12.1 million
Image Sensor			1/2.3-inch spuare pixel CCD
Image Sensor	Total Pixels		12.39 million
File Format	Still Images		JPEG (Exif Version 2.2, DCF 1.0 standard, DPOF compliant)
	Movies		AVI format, Motion JPEG, IMA-ADPCM (monaural)
	Audio (Voice Recording)		WAV format (monaural)
Internal Memory			35.7 MB
Recording Media			SDHC Memory Card, SD Memory Card, Eye-Fi Wireless Card compatible
Number of Recorded Pixels	Still Images		12M (4000 x 3000), 3:2 (4000 x 2656), 16:9 (4000 x 2240), 8M (3264 x 2448), 5M (2560 x 1920), 3M (2048 x 1536), VGA (640 x 480)
	STD / LP Movies		640 x 480 (30 fps) / 320 x 240 (15 fps)
	HD Movies		1280 x 720 (24 fps)
	YouTube™		640 x 480
Recording Capacity ( Max. Resolution)	Still Images	Built-in Memory	Approx. 4 shots (Fine) / ca. 8 shots (Normal) / ca. 13 shots (Economy)
	Still Images	SD Memory Card 1GB*1	Approx. 122 shots (Fine) / Approx. 234 shots (Normal) / Approx. 350 shots (Economy)
	Movies	Recording Time	Max. recording time per file: 10 min.
		Built-in Memory	Approx. 11 second (HD)
		SD Memory Card 1GB*1	Approx. 5 min. 27 second (HD)
Operating Speed	4fps Continuous Shooting*5		Approx. 4 frames per second
	10fps Continuous Shooting*6		Approx. 10 frames per second
	Flash Continuous Shooting Speed*7		Approx. 3 frames per second
Lens	Construction		7 lenses in 6 groups, including aspherical lens
	F-number		F2.6 (W) to F5.8 (T)
	Focal Length		f=4.9 to 19.6mm
	Focal Length	35mm Film Equivalent	Approx. 28 to 112mm
Zoom Ratio	Optical Zoom		4X
	Digital Zoom		4X (16X in combination with optical zoom)
	HD Zoom		Max. 25X @VGA
Focusing	Focus Type		Contrast Detection Auto Focus
	Focus Modes		Auto Focus, Macro Mode, Pan Focus, Infinity Mode, Manual Focus
	AF Area		Spot, Multi or Tracking
	AF Assist Lamp		Yes
Focus Range*8 (From Lens Surface)	Auto Focus		Approx. 40cm to Infinity (W)
	Macro		Approx. 10cm to 50cm (W)
	Infinity Mode		Infinity (W)
	Manual Focus		Approx. 10cm to Infinity (W)
Exposure	Exposure Metering		Multi-pattern, center weighted, spot by imaging element
	Exposure Control		Program AE
	Exposure Compensation		-2EV to +2EV (in 1/3EV steps)
Shutter Type			CCD electronic shutter, mechanical shutter
	Shutter Speed*9	Auto	1/2 to 1/1000 second
	Shutter Speed*9	Night Scene (BEST SHOT)	4 to 1/1000 second
Aperture*10			F2.6 (W) to F7.0 (W)*11, auto
White Balance (WB)			Auto WB, Daylight, Overcast, Shade, Day White FL, Daylight FL, Tungsten, Manual WB
Sensitivity (SOS/REI)*12	Still Images		Auto, ISO64, ISO100, ISO200, ISO400, ISO800, ISO1600, ISO3200
Sensitivity (SOS/REI)*12	Movies		Auto
Other Recording Functions	Image Stabilization Mechanism		CCD-shift image stabilization
	Make-up Mode		Yes
	Lighting		Yes
	Handheld Night Scene		Yes
	BEST SHOT		Yes: 39 scenes
		Dynamic Photo	Yes
		Multi-motion Image*13	Yes
		Pre Record Movie	Yes
		YouTube™ Capture Mode	Yes
		Auto BEST SHOT	Yes
		Voice Recording	Yes
	Face Detection		Yes
	Auto Shutter		Yes
Self-timer			10 seconds, 2 seconds, Triple Self-timer
Built-in Flash	Flash Modes		Auto, Flash Off, Flash On, Soft Flash, Red Eye Reduction
	Flash Range		Normal: Approx. 0.1 to 4.5m (W), approx. 0.5 to 2.0m (T)
	Flash Range		Continuous Shooting: Approx. 0.4 to 2.2m (W), approx. 0.5 to 1.0m (T)
	Flash Charge Time		Max. approx. 4 sec.
Monitor Screen			3.0-inch TFT color LCD (Super Clear LCD), 230,400 dots (960 x 240)
Timekeeping Functions	Date and Time		Recorded with image data
	On-image Time Stamp Function		Yes
	Auto Calendar		To 2049
	World Time		162 cities in 32 time zones, city name, date, time, summer time
Input/Output Terminals			USB/AV port (PAL/NTSC)
Input/Output Terminals	USB		Hi-Speed USB compatible
Microphone			Monaural
Speaker			Monaural
Power Requirements			Rechargeable lithium ion battery (NP-40) x 1
Battery Life	Number of Shots (CIPA)*14		Approx. 550 shots
	Continuous Playback (Still Images)*15		Approx. 9hrs.
	Continuous Movie Recording Time*16		Approx. 4 hrs. 10 min.
	Continuous Voice Recording Time*17		Approx. 14 hrs. 20 min.
Dimensions (Excluding Projections)			96.9 (W) x 57.6 (H) x 23.0 (D)mm
Dimensions (Excluding Projections)			Thinnest part: 21.1mm
Weight (Excluding Battery and Accessories)			Approx. 131g
Bundled Accessories			Rechargeable lithium ion battery (NP-40), lithium ion battery charger, AC power cord, USB cable, AV cable, strap, CD-ROM

*1. When using Panasonic (Matsushita) Pro High Speed 1GB SD Memory Card.
*2. When using built-in memory.
*3. With built-in flash off.
*4. When set at maximum image size and normal image quality.
*5. Max. recording capacity: 8 images, shutter speed 1/250 sec., image is fixed at 2M (1600x1200) pixels and normal image quality.
*6. Max. recording capacity: 20 images, shutter speed 1/250 sec., image is fixed at 1.2M(1280x960) pixels and normal image quality.
*7. Max. recording capacity: 3 images, shutter speed 1/250 sec., image is fixed at 2M (1600x1200) pixels and normal image quality.
*8. Range is affected by optical zoom.
*9. Shutter speed range may be different depending on the BEST SHOT scene.
*10. Using optical zoom causes the aperture to change.
*11. F7.0 is the aperture when an ND filter is being used.
*12. SOS: Standard Output Sensitivity. REI: Recommended Exposure Index.
*13. Image size 2048 x 1536 pixels.
*14. Auto Mode, standard brightness monitor setting.
*15. Continuous playback conditions: Temperature: 23°C (73°F), scroll one image about every 10 seconds
*16. Continuous movie recording without zoom.
*17. Voice recording times are based on continuous recording.

EXILIM and BEST SHOT are registered trademarks of CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. YouTube™ is a registered trademark of YouTube™, LLC. Any other company or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of those companies.

Specs are subject to change w/o notice