Casio has recently announced its Exilim Zoom EX-Z5 digital camera that has 5x optical zoom, 3x digital zoom and a 2.5” TFT display.

According to Casio, the EX-Z5 is beginner friendly with numerous default settings, such as the ones for outside, night and inside shots. The camera has the ability to switch to an easy mode, which is again a beginner friendly option, since they won’t have to worry about technical features. Personally, one of our favorite technologies is the anti-shake feature. As the name suggests, it stabilizes the image even if you have can’t hold the camera still, which is indeed a common occurrence.

The EX-Z5 can take still images, record videos and audio samples in JPEG, AVI and WAV formats, respectively. The camera has 8.3MB internal Flash memory, but you can expand via SD Card and MMC cards for more storage.

There are numerous flash options, image, movie and audio resolutions and settings; it even has a Revive Shot, which essentially lets you take digital stills of your old photographs to preserve and/or edit them.