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Quality Value
135 of 135 Yahoo! Users found this review helpful I spent the better part of 3 months searching for a digital camera before settling on the Fuji FinePix. In my comparisons, I looked at Sony, Cannon, Minolta, Olympus, and Nikon in addition to the Fuji.Overall, this is a very well built, very easy to use camera that takes a very clean picture. It should be noted that on its highest resolution setting, a tripod almost becomes mandatory to guarantee the best picture.
Camera Pros:
1. GREAT zoom! Fastest, clearest, and easiest to operate zoom I looked at! BIG plus! 6x optical is great. 3x digital is, more or less, unnecessary.
2. Screw-on ring adapter for adding a secondary zoom converter, wide-angle lense, or even filters (GREAT plus here!)
3. Takes AA bateries. I do a lot of travel and dont want to have to struggle finding specialized batteries. Also, I do a lot of camping, so rechargeable only cameras (Sony!) are pretty much worthless to me (I often dont know when I will encounter a wall-plug to do my recharging). Fuji rated to around 320 shots on a fresh set of standard AA alkalines. I dont know how many shots it could be on Lithium AAs.
4. Easy to use! Stable Grip! While it is a bit low on features, the camera is very intuitive and easy to use. I like to take a good pic, but I dont want to screw around with thousands of settings (ala Olympus and Nikon)
5. Great feel - feels very solid and has that really cool SLR type look. Yeah yeah, this is very subjective, but at least it FEELS like a camera!
6. Theres one other really nice feature I just cant remember, but it would go here!
Cons:
1. Proprietary memory card is slightly more expensive (Fuji Xd memory) and limited to 128 meg.
2. A little on the boxy side, though it is pretty light.
3. Lacks some flexibility and features (such as extended f-stop control or extended manual shutter speed control)
4. Not totally a negative, but not really a solid positive either: The viewfinder eyepiece sights through the lens, but not really. Its a digital rendering through the eyepiece that focuses through the lens. As a result, the viewfinder picture isnt as clear as some others, but the picture turns out just fine...
Other:
1. At 3.3 megapixls, best resolution setting, 1 pic - appx 1.3 megs in size!
2. About 2 seconds between shots. Does not permit Rapid fire or burst shots like the Olympus. Some cameras have a bit of onboard memory that allows for 3-5 rapid fire shots in under a second (though they then take 5 seconds to memorize the pix that were just taken).
3. Downloaded 32 megs (25 pix at max setting) in under 60 seconds! WAY faster than my last digital camera.
Great camera. If I upgrade from here, it would be a pro-series camera with all the bells and whistles to take truly cust shots. ...