Pictures are fine, but make lens is flawed
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Pictures are fine, but make lens is flawed.  Quit working within 6 months.  Would not extend, and warranty is a joke.  A money grab from company for sure!  Camera quickly became a $450 one that is now a factory referbished one.  Not fixed, not replaced!  However,  they would be happy to sell you an upgrade........Will never buy Canon again.
1988345
The camera hole creates an oval shadow along the top of the lens. The hole is cut too short along the top.
1539548
Ordered Sigma 18-250mm lens with great enthusiasm and upon receiving it, starting taking pictures. The pictures came out excellent. Soon, a week later, the internal lens was noisy, as if, it was loose inside. Moreover, the picture angle changed just before the click, which was VERY annoying. This kept happening when zooming and the more you zoomed, the more this repeated.
Thinking this was a defective item; I returned this and ordered the same lens again. To my surprise, even the 2nd one turned out to be having exactly the same issue. VERY DISAPPOINTED.
2885160
It appears that the collimation/alignment is off, I googled a bit and found some vids explaining how to fix it myself, though I may call around some camera shops (if any still exist) and see it they know how to fix this.
Fun fact, many of the videos are of this exact model... buyer beware...
440009
Camera works great I bought it a couple months ago. Went to do a shoot with the telephoto lense and the lense was broken. I'm giving the bad rating so hopefully they will replace the lense I paid for.
3804718
Returned the camera - blurry pictures if the subject isn't standing perfectly still
689566
i love my camera, but seems the lenses are far too expensive than camera itself
4935337
This is a pretty good lens for the price with little aberration at the edges. The one problem is that there seem to be artifacts of point light sources if those sources are near the center of the picture.
4959088
Everything worked great, except for the 8x lens...the two top corners of the picture are now blackened out by the lens, and parts of the picture are blurry when the lens was being used. If there is anyway to replace just this lens, that would be perfect.
(I also didn't notice much of a difference when using the wide angle lens, but this isn't much of a concern.
412826
Others have said most of the key things about why this camera should be an unqualified 5-star recommendation, so I won't repeat comments on great battery life, very fast start-up, virtually no shutter lag, stunning pictures, or unexpectedly good movie mode.

What I will tell you about is the problem that, from what I've read on various message boards including the widely respected on on DPReview, is happening to a fair number of people.

A not-insubstantial number of people are reporting that their Casio has started (a) giving "LENS ERROR" messages a good percentage of the time when they start up and (b) they are unable to get a focused picture when the camera does start up correctly.  For me, it was after about one month and 500 pictures that it started happening.

First, although I've not yet tried to do this, I read that Casio is replacing these lens sets and/or cameras.  However, if this starts happening to you, THERE IS A DECENT WORK AROUND.

Once you get the camera to start up without a "LENS ERROR" message, zoom out to the limit of the optical zoom (the vertical red line on the zoom level indicator) and then back in to the home position.  That should "reset" the camera's idea of where the lens is, and you'll now be able to take an in-focus picture.  See?  The little focus rectangle now turns green when you push halfway down instead of red.  You're good until you shut the camera off... next startup you'll have to do the same thing.
2528727
Initially I was thrilled with the lenses I received with this camera and the options I had. Upon my first usage the 50mm standard lens' aperture ring was stuck. I took it to a local camera shop and they didn't know how to get it loose, so I have sense bought a new lens. The other lens didn't fit on the camera properly and wouldn't click and lock into place!

Having said all that with the new lens I had to buy myself, the camera is great! I fell in love with it (after I got a good lens for it)!
1339971
The lens of the Camera is scratched and all the pictures comes out blurry : (
2336611
The problem is that the camera itself has to be zoomed completely out. If it is not, the picture has rounded sides.  Also the picture is not focused smoothly across.
1445471
The lens is obviously not put in properly. Egen on flat surfaces, the projected image is slanted. Its only slight, maybe 10-15 degrees bit still very annoying.
1335703
I bought this unit in the hopes that it would work correctly with my Nikon D5000 and D5300 SLR camera's. Unfortunately, I cannot tell when the picture is correctly focused (it appears so in the view finder, but when I transfer the disk to my PC, it appears slightly off). This is due to the "focus" green light does not appear (as it does with my other automated lenses. Unless someone can tell me what I am doing wrong, I feel that this is only a 3-star product. I can honestly say, though, that it is well constructed and a beautiful lens, but outside of that, just collecting dust in my camera bag.
2387632
Lense cover seems okay at first, however there are multiple distortions in the photos and videos with the lense on
214480
So far the lens is great. Although some lighting situations cause a unsightly horizontal 'bar' across the frame. I'm not sure if this is a defect or just lighting, hearing different things on the line. But great pictures I'm happy with it.