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Summary: Everything I ever wanted in a digital camera
Review: I love this camera!!! It has everything I ever wanted in a camera: excellent resolution, LCD screen, USB connection. And it all fits in my shirt pocket! Of course this is a big step up from my other digital camera (a Kodak DC50). Right now I am keeping everything on automatic and even then it takes great photos. I need to learn play with the white balance some but it is nothing I cannot fix in a photo editor - I use VuePrint. It also takes good action photos. Something I never thought to do with my previous digial camera. And the movies it makes are great. The only thing I would recommend is go ahead and purchase a 64Mb card MINIMUM. I purchased the 128Mb card. My only wish list item for this camera is to have the battery charger built in the camera so I can plug the camera in overnight without taking out the batteries. But I would gladly keep this off to keep it from getting any bigger.
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Summary: Everything I ever wanted in a digital camera
Review: I love this camera!!! It has everything I ever wanted in a camera: excellent resolution, LCD screen, USB connection. And it all fits in my shirt pocket! Of course this is a big step up from my other digital camera (a Kodak DC50). Right now I am keeping everything on automatic and even then it takes great photos. I need to learn play with the white balance some but it is nothing I cannot fix in a photo editor - I use VuePrint. It also takes good action photos. Something I never thought to do with my previous digial camera. And the movies it makes are great. The only thing I would recommend is go ahead and purchase a 64Mb card MINIMUM. I purchased the 128Mb card. My only wish list item for this camera is to have the battery charger built in the camera so I can plug the camera in overnight without taking out the batteries. But I would gladly keep this off to keep it from getting any bigger.
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Summary: Best camera of my life! Size quality, ease of use...
Review: I love this more than my second child. The tiny size means I take it more places. The video only does a few minutes, but I end up using it only for a few "great momement" seconds shots and I can upload it to the net in no time fast. the only grip I have is the MP3 is almost impossible to use. They have copyright protection that makes uploading music into the camera a beast. I recommend a 32 meg card. This camera is awesome, but make sure NOT to let your friends hold it without putting the strap on. It is easy to drop with the size. Also get rechargeable Nickel Metal Hydride or else your everready will only last like 1 day.
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Summary: All in one with no comprimises!
Review: I was stunned when I first saw this Fujifilm camera. I was originally looking for the Cannon Ixus, but this was smaller, very light-weight, and had a 4.3 million pixel definition! The advantage of this is that you do not need to zoom with the camera. It will allow for a 2400x1800 resolution, so you can zoom in on a quarter of an A4 sized picture with the software whilst hardly losing picture quality. The Quicktime movie mode works well and is fun showing a webcam like video with sound. Finally, it is an MP3 player which is hardly bigger than the dedicated ones. Sound is good, the MP3 player alone is worth having, allowing you to do voice recording and pictures when necessary. Oh, it also looks very cool! Only drawbacks that I've seen so far are no onboard memory and the MP3 player doesn't take VBR encoded files. I say nevermind!
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Summary: Great camera but what about the "avi's"?
Review: I've had my 40i for just over 3 months and I'm very happy with it's performance. The major advantages for me have been it's size, picture quality and, of course, the very handy digital video recording functions. I would definately recommend it to friends because, in my opinion, it's the best all round performer. OK, with that out of the way, I have one major problem with the video function: Having used the camera on a regular basis, I've found myself recording more and more videos. I now have 2 64meg cards to support my habit. The videos are saved as .avi files which I thought would be ideal to send to friends to view the videos. Unfortunately, if the video is double clicked on a standard Windows PC it does not act as a standard .avi file and it cannot be viewed ie it can only be viewed either from within the Exif Viewer software (supplied with the camera) or by opening Quicktime then opening the file itelf. I'm happy to be proved wrong on this. I've tried renaming the file to .mov so that it can be recognised by Quicktime and I've also tried changing the file associations in Explorer so that the file is viewed by the standard .avi viewing software. When the file is double-clicked in Explorer a connection to the net is made to attempt to download the appropriate decompressor (which, of course, fails). My suggestion is simple - if the file generated is indeed given a .avi extension, can it be viewed as any other .avi please? I'm sure that there's a very good reason why this occurs but try explaining it to the average Joe who tries to view the video without Exif Viewer or Quicktime.
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Summary: Small on Size and Features
Review: It's the perfect size, but the lack of a zoom lense kills it. Also,the indoor photos have a redish tint and the quality of the photos fell far short of the Canon Elph 300. The only zoom on the camera is digital zoom -- just like cropping a photo on your computer. The MP3 player software forces you to convert via a special process, but if you can get the music on to the camera then it's a great plus.
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Summary: You'll regret the lack of zoom, believe me
Review: Nice pictures, nice camera. But clearly, this is an attempt at selling a cutesy camera that has a humongous, and that means incredibly large, flaw. Or should I say, lack of a feature. You may think "aw, how often would I use a zoom?" Trust me, it makes a huge difference. And a digital zoom does nothing - you can do that on your computer, blowing the picture up, but without any increase in resolution - in other words, grain city. You need at least a 3X *optical* zoom. For this price, it should be there. Get rid of the darn MP3 player and get a zoom. Since when is an MP3 player needed on a camera? You can get an MP3 player that is much smaller anyway. Nice to have movies with sound - smart. But wow, no zoom was the biggest mistake that Fuji, or I, could have made. I cannot believe that management of such a quality company could possibly think that absence of a zoom would not be a big deal. This item will have a very, very high return rate. I have one bit of advise: please...save your receipt, and wait for Fuji to wake up and smell the coffee. I am sure they will.
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Summary: You'll regret the lack of zoom, believe me
Review: Nice pictures, nice camera. But clearly, this is an attempt at selling a cutesy camera that has a humongous, and that means incredibly large, flaw. Or should I say, lack of a feature. You may think "aw, how often would I use a zoom?" Trust me, it makes a huge difference. And a digital zoom does nothing - you can do that on your computer, blowing the picture up, but without any increase in resolution - in other words, grain city. You need at least a 3X *optical* zoom. For this price, it should be there. Get rid of the darn MP3 player and get a zoom. Since when is an MP3 player needed on a camera? You can get an MP3 player that is much smaller anyway. Nice to have movies with sound - smart. But wow, no zoom was the biggest mistake that Fuji, or I, could have made. I cannot believe that management of such a quality company could possibly think that absence of a zoom would not be a big deal. This item will have a very, very high return rate. I have one bit of advise: please...save your receipt, and wait for Fuji to wake up and smell the coffee. I am sure they will.
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Summary: Finepix 40i. Brilliant.
Review: Ok, I have been dubious about digital cameras for a while now and have been very dubious over the 4.3mp claims of the fuji range, it is after all an interpolated octagonal 2.4 mg chip at the end of the day. Well all that doesn't matter. This baby rocks. First off I had no problems with mp3's, I got mine ... and stuck 'em in the 40i and off I went. NO PROBS!! This camera is tiny, it's light and it a joy to hold and use. The quality of the pictures are amazing, I took a shot of the sky just before sunset and the detail in the clouds is unreal. The 16MB supplied card is a bone of contention for me. Yes it will store 19 or so max resolution pics. But compact flash would have been the way to go Mr Fuji. The smartmedia is ok but it's wafer thin, looks like it could easily break with removing it all the time to go in a card reader and the industry seems to support the bigger CF cards. So why not Fuji? I reckon a 64meg card would give you almost 80 pics at the max setting. Maybe enough for a holiday/vacation hmmm maybe..... I did print out some pics first at max setting, then at norm setting and I couldn't tell the difference - even at 10 by 8 size so maybe a 64 meg card would do it. Anyway, this is the camera for me, I don't buy things unless I am totally happy with them and I am totally happy with this purchase.
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Summary: The coolest camera I've ever used.
Review: The 40i is a truly amazing little camera. Not only does it play MP3's and take great hi-res pictures, but it also takes digital video with sound, which you can review instantly on the LCD screen on the back of the camera. The 40i is easy to use, the smart card media cards hold tons of pictures and the whole thing easily fits in my pocket! (It's about the size of a wallet). I have used the 40i to send pictures and videos of my baby to my family in Texas and Atlanta and they are always amazed by the quality. If you are considering getting this or the Canon Elph, get the Fuji 40i. It's just as small (actually, it feels smaller), but it does a whole lot more.
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