Casio has put subtantial marketing behind its TRYX hybrid camera and it is a daring and innovative design. This extremely thin and surprisingly pliable device does double duty as a 12 megapixel point and shoot camera as well as a 1080p capable HD camcorder. We put it through its paces.
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The Casio TRYX is a result of a great vision. Take a camcorder with a flip out screen and put the camcorder (lens, camera, storage and battery) into the screen and ditch the body. As a result, the Casio TRYX is surprisingly thin (at 0.59 of an inch) yet feels solidly built. Casios's experience in making tough point and shoot cameras is clearly visible in the TRYX.
The TRYX only has two buttons. One for power and the other to trigger the shutter, although Casio made it possible to use the screen to take pictures which makes much more sense given the TRYX doesn't have a conventional shape for a point and shoot camera.In fact, the TRYX ($269.99 at Future Shop) is anything but conventional. It can be flipped and twisted into a variety of shapes. It can be fashioned into a tripod, a hanging camera, a makeshift camcorder. The articulating screen can also be bent and flipped in interesting angles which extends its functionality as a point and shoot camera.
Casio has made this camera extremely easy to operate. Turn it on and it is good to go in about two seconds. If you want to take video, press the dedicated icon on the screen and it begins recording. If you'd rather take stills, then clicking on the physical button (or anywhere on the screen if you program it) does just that.
Casio has outfitted the TRYX with a lot of brains, it has a Exilim Engine HS dual core processor, contrast Detection Auto Focus, ISO range of 100-3200 and while it has no optical zoom it can capture a burst of images, and thencombine and positioning of each frame to piece together a clear, detailed, final image.
We found the photo quality of the TRYX to be above average for a point and shoot and some of the included modes (like sweeping landscape mode) are very well implemented while others (like HDR) are kitschy and fun.