Casio shoots with YouTube in mind

Announced in the US only yesterday, the EX-S880 and the EX-Z77 are Casio's latest models to join the compact category of cameras and the Japanese manufacturer is trumpeting the new cameras as YouTube-ready.

Now savvy tech types would snigger if they overhear someone rushing out to buy Casio's latest simply because it can shoot YouTube-sized videos. After all, the contents on the video-sharing site is not exactly known for its sterling resolution quality.

Besides being able to shoot 640 x 480 30fps videos (not groundbreaking at all) in MPEG-4 H.264, Casio has also added a custom video uploading app specific to YouTube. However, this specificity will not please Casio users who are already using other video-sharing sites like Revver or Yahoo Video. We are guessing that the application logins direct into a user's YouTube account and offers a resume function for failed uploads. But till we receive further details from Casio, this remains to be seen.

Casio US has indicated that the YouTube Capture mode will not be limited to just the S880 and Z77 though it has not released further details on other new models that will feature this functionality.

Casio Singapore was unable to revert at press time on the local availability and pricing of these two cameras.  Compare them here

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