Digital Home Thoughts: Casio Brings World's Fastest 60fps, 6 MP Camera/Camcorder

"Ok, here we go. Casio has a world's first prototype shooter at IFA sporting what must be Sony's 60fps 1/1.8-inch CMOS sensor. Right, bursting sixty 6 megapixel frames per second for what should be a resolution in the ballpark of 2921 x 2184. It'll even go 300fps if you want to scale things back to VGA video. The prototype features a 12x optical zoom and 2.8-inch LCD in a beefy piece of kit measuring in at 127.5 x 79.5 x 130.0-mm / 650-grams. What's also notable is what's missing from the specs: the storage utilized by this cam. A pretty serious omission when you think about the transfer speeds required to move (and store) that much data."



Given the amount of data to be transferred, I guess one of the requirements is going to be a high speed memory card of some sort, or a built in drive, however the site does not give this information. Overall, this seems like a very nice camera; although I am not so a huge fan of the form factor. In general, I prefer the standard compact style cameras or the DSLR devices, but the larger integrated lens cameras, like this one, just don't do it for me.