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CASE FOR CASIO QV-R51 AND QV-R40
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Casio QV-R51

Reviewed April 2004

Introduction

 Introduction
Ergonomics
Characteristics
Image Quality
Interface & Software
Camera Views
Test Photos
Specifications
Our Opinion
The Casio QV-R51 is one of 2 similar cameras recently released by Casio. This one is a 5 megapixel, the other, the QV-R41 is a 4 megapixel. Both these cameras are based on the QV-R40, a model released in the Fall of 2003.
Like the QV-R40, the QV-R51 is fast to start and fast to react to the shutter release, taking approximately 1 second to be ready to shoot, and claiming a shutter lag of 0.1 sec.
The QV-R51 is powered on with a small switch that is mounted flush to the top of the camera. To its right, the shutter release has a circular zoom control around it, providing wide angle when pushed to the left and telephoto when pulled to the right.

As is often the case, the wide angle side of the zoom control also serves to display thumbnails (9 per screen) of captured images in playback, while the telephoto side can be used to magnify an image up to 4X.
The QV-R51 can also be activated with either of 2 buttons on its back, next to the optical viewfinder.
The first button to the right of the viewfinder, , turns on the camera and immediately enters the Playback mode, avoiding having the lens deploy. The second button, , also starts the camera, this time in the recording mode. Although either of these buttons will, by default, turn on the QV-R51, they cannot turn it off — the top On/Off switch is required — unless that capability has been specifically assigned to them in the Setup menu.
The other external controls of the QV-R51 are arranged to the right of its large 2 inch LCD monitor. At the top is the MENU button and below, the 4-direction control that allows navigating the menus and which has a separate SET button at the centre to confirm selections.

By default, the right and left arrows of the 4-direction control are assigned to select the Recording mode: Snapshot, Bestshot (Scene mode) and Movie mode, but can be reassigned to other functions if desired (see the Characteristics section of the review).
The down arrow selects the flash mode when the camera is still in image capture mode (Auto, Forced On, Forced Off or Auto with Red-eye Reduction). In Playback, the same button can be used to delete one or more photos.

The up arrow cycles through focusing modes. The first option being the Macro mode , which has a focus range of 10 to 70 cm (3.9 to 27.6 in.) and which locks the zoom to either 1X or 1.2X.

The second option is Infinity mode , which sets the lens to infinity focus.
And finally, the third is Manual focus which allows adjusting the focus of the QV-R51 over a range of 10 cm (3.9 in.) to infinity at the wide angle setting, and 60 cm (23.6 in.) to infinity when the zoom is at the maximum telephoto setting. Focus is adjusted using the right and left arrows and the camera automatically provides a blow-up of the central part of the frame on the LCD screen to make sure the focus is sharp.
In Playback, the up arrow calls up the Calendar screen indicated by the green icon. The Calendar screen highlights the day(s) on which images were captured, making it simple to select a particular day and see all the images taken on that date.

The last button on the QV-R51's back is the DISP button. Be it in the Recording modes, or in Playback, this button controls the information shown atop the LCD monitor's image.
In the Recording modes, the QV-R51's LCD monitor indicates most important camera settings such as the recording mode — or the scene mode — the image size and quality, the presence of a memory card and, once the shutter release is held at the halfway point and the camera is ready for the shot, the aperture and shutter speed that will be used.
Pressing the DISP button once adds a real time histogram showing a graph of the subject's brightness. A second press clears all information off the screen except for the AF brackets; a third press of the button turns off the LCD monitor.

In Playback, the DISP button never turns off the screen, but does control the overlaid information. And, as with the recording modes, the button can be used to show all the pertinent shooting data, along with a histogram.
Without a doubt, the hallmark of the Casio QV-R51 is the speed at which it is ready to shoot, and how fast it can capture photos. The ergonomic design — effectively unchanged, aside from the larger LCD monitor, since the QV-40 — is very functional and makes the camera extremely user friendly.
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Introduction
Ergonomics
Characteristics
Image Quality
Interface & Software
Camera Views
Test Photos
Specifications
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