The need to lug around a camcorder is rapidly being reduced for many people by the growing video capabilities of digital stills cameras. Casio's EX-Z1080 is no exception, and has its sights set firmly on those looking to capture quick blasts of video for uploading to the web.




Packing a YouTube friendly mode into this compact camera, alongside an impressive 10.1 Megapixel and High ISO 6400 sensitivity capture, this looks to be an impressive piece of kit.

Gizmodo note this $279 camera's impressive feature set:

"• 10.1 million effective pixels, 3x optical zoom
• Best Shot function
• High-sensitivity shooting mode
• ISO 6400
• 2.6-inch bright widescreen LCD display
• Brightness of 1000 cd/m² at the center of the LCD screen
• Maximum 7 shot/second high-speed continuous shutter (at 2.0 megapixel)
• Super Life Battery allows up to 370 shots to be taken when fully charged
• Movie mode with electronic image stabilization function.
• High-quality movies using the H.264 standard
• YouTube Capture Mode for uploading to YouTube
• Comes with unique "YouTube Uploader for Casio" software
• Choice of five camera body colors: gray, black, blue, pink and gold"

For many people, being able to easily shoot, capture and upload videos to YouTube using a high-powered, lightweight stills camera is likely to portend leaving the video camera on the shelf at home, which recent statistics seem to indicate is fast becoming the case.

With cameras like this hitting the market, it is easy to see why.