Casio today announced a new addition to its line of Exilim point-and-shoot cameras. The EX-Z9 is a slim, ultracompact digital camera available in a range of colors (orange, pink, silver, and black).
The 8.1-megapixel camera also has a "YouTube Capture Mode," which optimizes video footage for quick uploads to YouTube directly from the camera via a USB cable. For higher-quality videos, the EX-Z9 can also shoot clips at a 848x480-pixel resolution.
Other EX-Z9 features called out by Casio are a 3x optical zoom, a 2.6-inch LCD display, Anti Shake DSP digital image stabilization, face detection, and 23 different image-optimization modes.
The EX-Z9 will be available this month for $160. That's a good price, but I'm still a bit more geeked out over the upcoming Casio Exilim EX-F1, which takes 60 shots per second and shoots video at up to 1,200 frames per second. Awesome.
