Full Review

I found this product to be highly satisfactory in my experiences with it. I initially bought it so I could take pictures of my tour in Germany and my deployment to Iraq. I needed a camera that wasn't too big and could fit on my kit (the gear that I wear that holds my magazines, grenades, etc.)with ease. Of all the cameras that I looked at, the Z75 seemed to be the smallest in terms of size. It was nice and thin also, which made it perfect to fit in one of my empty grenade pouches or into my pocket when I'm in a hurry. In my line of work, speed is key.

I do recall one experience with the camera. I was hitching a ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk from one FOB (Forward Operating Base) to another and I wanted to get some good shots of flying over Baghdad. Well I somehow managed to drop the darn thing on the floor and I immediately got a lil annoyed. I thought I had broken it and lost all the pictures. Casio made this camera pretty durable, because all it did was take a picture of me looking down at it when it hit the floor of the bird. The only damage to the camera itself was a slight scratch to the LCD screen. Which incidentally was my fault anyway, being as I stomped my boot on the camera to keep it from sliding around inside the bird till I could pick it up.

As for the picture quality, I have to admit it is excellent. Once uploaded to my computer, I'm able to zoom in and see things in the background of picture with ease. Operation of the camera is pretty straightforward. It has an aiming square so you can shoot what you actually want to shoot. The only things that I found to be troublesome are, these are pretty minor problems mind you, the buttons are a bit too small (especially when wearing gloves) and the process of changing to a different kind of shot is tedious.