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| Announced: | Jul 13, 2006 |
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Average rating:
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Opinion: Extraordinary low-light perfomance in a well designed, low cost, package. This cam is a great adjunct to my Panasonic FZ30, which is a terrific superzoom, but a poor choice for low light conditions. The best feature is the setting that allows you to take two pix nearly simultaneously -- one with the flash, one without.
No aperture or shutter priority, but it has an "anti-blur" feature that functions as a shutter priority of sorts, taking the picture at the fastest shutter speed available.
Problems: Note that it does not come with an xD chip. This isn't much of a problem, as the industry as a whole has been tossing in 16 or 32 MB chips, which are almost useless.
Opinion: Stepping up from an old Canon PowerShot S100, the Fuji F20 is a delight! There is
much detail, and the low-light performance is wonderful. The without flash/with flash
shooting mode, which takes a photo without and with flash in succession, is most
useful for indoor shots. Although claimed to be a third less in capacity than the F30
battery, the F20 battery seems to last sufficiently long enough.
Problems: In 'Auto' mode, the camera seems to default to a higher ISO setting than desired,
resulting in 'watercolor' like images at times. Surely, more advanced users can get
around this limitation easily though. xD cards have lower capacity than most other
memory card formats and costs more. The width of the F20 was surprisingly wider
than my five year-old Canon S100. Not having seen a real F20 before purchasing it
online, I was expecting digital camera sizes to have decreased.
Opinion: What a goldmine for $249.99!! Truly a great camera for a starter, looking for a replacement, or even an DSLR sidekick.
The SuperCCD is flawless and takes out anything in its price range (W50, Stylus 710).
ISO2000 is also good
Problems: Macro mode not the best, and I suggest a second battery over bring the AC adapter with you.
However...if you can find a battery wall charger for the FX01, buy it, as they are the same battery.
Opinion: Bought the Fuji because I was tired of the noisy pictures and crummy battery life from my Panasonic digicam (FX7). So far I've been pretty happy with the Fuji. While the noise performance is quite good, you don't have control over the iso, and the camera seems to favor higher isos. Most of my indoor shots have been at iso 800.
The battery life seems quite good. I can take 200+ pictures before it dies which is adequate. The camera operation is very fast. It's quick to turn on and the menus are quick.
I rated the features for the camera as average. No Tv or Av mode though I don't think they'd be very useful on a camera like this. No image stablization which would be nice.
It's just a little bigger than the smallest canon and Panasonic but still very pocketable. I gave it a 5 for Value because at $200, this is a really nice little camera that would satisfy most casual photographers.
Problems: While the iso performance is really good, and the camera is fast with good battery life, it's pretty average when you get beyond that. Picture quality from the lens is pretty good but I got at lot of bleeding of bright whites in high contrast shots.
The menus while apparently improved over the previous version are not the easiest to use. I wanted to take an indoor picture without flash and needed to set the white balance. Had a very hard time finding it. I realize that the menu options have been simplified for casual users, but I should still be able to find important settings without refering to the manual.
One other thing is that the autofocus isn't as accurate or smart as what I'm used to compared to Panasonic. I get a lot more misses than I was expecting and have lost some potentially memorable shots because what I thought the camera was focusing on was out of focus.
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