Design
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The Fuji MX-2700 is a vertical
"standing" camera, that is the lens
is at the top and the camera is taller than it
is wide, it has an aluminium alloy finish which
does give it the feeling of being slightly better
built than its competitors (although I've not
had my hands on the new Olympus C-21 yet).
Overall it's a cleverly designed,
neat, camera with an interesting symetrical look
(the back of the camera has the round command
dial where the lens is on the front). The only
let-down from a quality point of view could be
the SmartMedia door which is a little flimsy and
seems like an after-thought compared to the rest
of the more "integrated" design.
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Hopefully these images will go
some of the way to demonstrating just how small the MX-2700
is, held normally the rubber grip holds well against the inside
of your palm with the wrist-strap safely wrapped over your
wrist. My only gripe for people with larger hands was that
you sometimes didn't know where to put your thumb and it can
be fairly easy to turn the command wheel accidently, also
easily done is accidently covering the flash with your middle
finger.
(Left to right: Nikon Coolpix 700, Canon A50/A5/A5Zoom
size, Fuji MX-2700)
Here's a comparison of the size of the MX-2700
against the Nikon Coolpix 700 and Canon A50 (same size as
A5 and A5 Zoom). Both the 700 and A50 are slightly deeper
and longer than the MX-2700 is tall.
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Noteworthy on the base is the metal
tripod screw-mount (although it doesn't run along
the axis of the lens) and also that the SmartMedia
cards can be removed without taking the camera
off a tripod (because the card door is on the
side of the camera).
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Mini-Rear LCD Display
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The mini display LCD on the back
of the camera (just above the main LCD display)
indicates the following settings (in record mode):
Compression mode, flash mode, macro
mode, battery status, remaining frames and resolution
(1800 / 1280 / 640).
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Main LCD Display
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The main LCD displays
a live preview of the framed subject along with
current frames remaining, camera mode and date
and time.
It's big, sharp, bright enough
to see in sunlight and has a fairly quick refresh
rate.
Interestingly, in manual record
you can't ever totally switch off the LCD, turning
off the live preview still leaves the current
camera settings displayed on the LCD with a black
backround.
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Optical Viewfinder
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A fairly standard viewfinder with
a hard plastic surround. The green indiciator
flashes on a lack of AF lock or low light (also
indicated by blinking "!AF" or a blinking
hand on the main LCD). The light is steady for
a good AF lock and good light.
I found the viewfinder small, very
small, I guess that comes with the design but
it's noticeably smaller to see through than (say)
the Nikon Coolpix 700.
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This image
represents the view through the viewfinder, the MX-2700
uses a circle to indicate the center of frame. |
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