Digital Camera Review

DP Review has posted their review of the Fuji FinePix S8000fd where they write:

The S8000fd packs an awful lot into its compact body, and seems to be trying pretty hard to be all things to all people, with manual exposure controls sitting alongside point-and-shoot convenience features such as face detection. There is a high-speed shooting mode (at reduced resolution), and some extremely high sensitivity modes (again at lower resolution), for shooting in low light. What compromises this all-encompassing approach brings, we shall see. …

The advantage of a larger camera is that the designers can fit more controls onto the body - and allow them room to breathe, so it doesn’t feel too ‘cramped’. And the S8000fd certainly has more than its fair share of buttons and switches, which between them give the user instant access to pretty much all the most commonly accessed controls - although you still need to use the menu system if you want to change white balance or metering, or to use the self-timer (infuriatingly the self-timer also cancels itself after every shot)…

This is because cramming an 18x (27-486mm equiv.) lens into a compact body involves some compromises, both optical and digital (to avoid the camera ending up the size of a suitcase, the sensor has to be very small indeed). The zoom produces significant levels of chromatic aberration at the long end and clearly visible distortion at both ends, but that is to be expected. As is the slight loss of resolution and contrast at longer focal lengths and the less than class-leading image quality in general. We were more disappointed to see that Fuji still hasn’t sorted out the purple fringing and red channel clipping that has plagued previous models.

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CNET reviews the Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd and writes:

Any time an electronics manufacturer creates a product targeted at teenagers, I start to worry. Too often it means a poorly performing product with a slick design and an inflated price tag. Fujifilm’s new FinePix Z10fd, which is intended for the mid-teen to mid-twenties market, certainly has a nice look with its bright colors, silver accents, and horizontally sliding lens cover. …

Image quality is good, but the noise reduction algorithm that Fuji uses to keep ISO noise under control takes a lot of sharpness away from the Z10fd’s images. If you’re not going to print your images larger than 4×6 inches, this shouldn’t be a problem, but if you plan to print large, crop, or view images on your computer at full magnification, then you’ll notice that the Z10fd’s images can be quite soft, especially at high ISOs. …

While the Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd is aggressively priced, there are other cameras out there that can deliver better image quality for about the same amount of money.

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DP Review has posted their review of the Fujifilm F50fd where they give it a rating of ‘highly recommended’ and write:

As the replacement for the Fujifilm F30/F31fd, a camera that has reached an almost legendary status since its launch back in 2006, the Fujifilm F50fd has some big shoes to fill. If anything deserves to be called a ‘classic’ camera in the shortlived world of digital compact cameras it would have to be the Fujifilm F30/F31fd. It wasn’t very pretty, it wasn’t very feature packed and it wasn’t even very cheap. …

Fujifilm’s standard ‘F mode’ button brings up a small menu containing ISO, quality & size, color settings and power management. There is also a button on top to activate image stabilization. Most other settings such as metering mode, white balance, AF mode, burst mode etc. have to be changed in the menu, and unfortunately the F50fd’s user interface simply was not designed for tweaking these settings on a shot-by-shot basis. …

Although the F31fd (and the F30 before it) was a fairly bland compact camera, it was blessed with an outstanding imaging sensor and set the benchmark in terms of image quality, most specifically low light performance. Fujifilm achieved this through some very clever technology in its Super–CCD sensor and Real Photo imaging processor but also, and most importantly, through the bold decision to not jump onto the megapixel bandwagon. Instead, it put a flagship compact camera with a relatively large sensor sporting only six megapixels on the market at a time when most competitors already were heading towards double digit resolution figures.

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Imaging Resource reviews the Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd and writes:

The Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd has body styling reminiscent of a single-lens reflex digital camera, and uses a 1/2.35-inch CCD image sensor. The front of the Fujifilm S8000fd is dominated by the Fujinon Zoom-branded 18x optical zoom lens, which offers a 27mm to 486mm zoom range and an f/2.8 maximum aperture at wide-angle. …

The Fujifilm S8000fd is a handsome little machine with a better grip than some dSLRs and the Shutter button in just the right place. But the battery door hinge (on the short edge of the cover) is a pin floating in a slot (so the cover can slide open) rather than a hole, which makes it hard to align when you close it. And the memory card goes in only at an angle (another oddity), whether it’s an xD card or an SD card. …

Like the Olympus SP-560 UZ and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18, the Fujifilm S8000fd is an ultra-long zoom with an 18x optical zoom range and an 8.0-megapixel sensor. But Fujfilm has added a lot of value to the ultra long zoom with the S8000fd. I particularly liked the two default Scene mode options on the Mode dial, the Natural Light and Natural Light with Flash options, the very quick pre-focus shutter lag and the comfortable grip.

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CNET reviews the Fujifilm FinePix Z5fd and writes:

Like most, the 6-megapixel Z5fd offers a 3x zoom lens with a typically narrow f/3.5-4.2 36mm-108mm-equivalent lens. The 5-ounce camera’s dimensions are 2.2 inches high by 3.6 inches wide by 0.8 inch deep, which makes it comfortable to stick in your pocket, but not quite as comfortable to shoot with. For instance, because of the combination of the camera’s thin profile and the position of the lens so close to the edge, my finger frequently crept into the frame (only once did it actually end up in the photo, though). …

Though the 2.5-inch LCD tends to blow out in bright sunlight, it otherwise works very well. Plus, the Z5fd offers the option of driving the display at 30fps, 60fps, or in a standard power save mode. Though denoted by frame rates, the 60fps does make the screen look slightly higher resolution than the other modes. As you’d guess, it draws more power, as well. …

All of which adds up to a pretty typical, not particularly notable addition to the budget-camera pantheon. The Fujifilm FinePix Z5fd probably ranks as one of the smaller, cuter budget models, but it’s ultimately your call as to whether the marginally slimmer build makes up for the missing features and inconsistent photo quality. I don’t think it does.

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