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Summary: awesome camera!
Review: with the 128MB smartmedia card at 1280x960 resolution, you get an amazing 398 photos before having to clear off the card. at 640x480 rez, you get almost a thousand photos. the features on this camera are like having an slr without having to deal with film and developing. an awesome camera!
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Summary: Fuji 2800 is a fantastic buy!
Review: I've had this Fuji 2800 camera for about 1 month now and I simply LOVE it. I took it on my recent trip to Key West Florida where I got some FANTASTIC quality shots. Zoom works wonderfully, but be very careful on full zoom... even the slightest movement will result in blurry pictures. The 6X zoom is why I bought the camera, and I quickly learned the difference between the digital zoom and optical zoom. The optical zooms in physically (you feel the lens move) while the digital gets you closer like on the monitor of a computer. Every time I zoomed to the full max, I set the camera on a stable surface and got incredibly nice photos!My suggestion is to buy a 128MB card, or two, and take all your pictures at the highest quality. Your choices for quality are BEST / High, mid, low... or MEDIUM / high, mid... or LOW / regular. That's 6 choices. If you have the space available on your card, why not get the best shot? The camera comes with a 16MB, I bought a 64MB, and on my week in Fla., I ended up lowering the quality to accommodate more photos, and when I viewed my pics at home, I saw a difference that didn't please me. If I had taken them all at mid quality, I may not have noticed, but size does matter! Capture the biggest image! As far as the video clip capabilities, I was pleasantly surprised. Takes up tons of space though. And don't expect fine detail. Add the sound and you end up with a jumpy at best, rough video of your cherished moment. If it's video you're after, take along a video camera. I did run home and e-mail the .avi file to all my friends and they were surprised too, simply at the fact that a digital camera can record video with sound. I have used several other digi-cameras that were slim and credit card sized, and I didn't like them. I am a big guy with big fingers, and I like the bigger camera. I can carry it in my front pocket in relative comfort, but then again, I wear big shorts. The camera is 3" x 3.5" x 3.5". A cube. It has a nice grip to it, and it feels secure in my hand when I am on the boat. It comes with a lanyard for hanging on your neck but I never attached it. The lens cap is on a string, so be careful the string is out of the way when you snap the shot. My last digital camera had no lens cover, and the lens got scratched eventually. As far as not being able to see through the viewfinder at night or indoors, it is true, but you can almost always see something distinguishable, and in no time, one gets used to it. You see the captured image for a second after you snap it, so you can see if you cut someone's head off. The biggest problem is when you ask someone to take your picture for you, they get caught up on the fact that they can't see you clearly. Better off just using the self-timer, which is easy to use. I use it often. Pictures are easily and quickly erased if you want to erase them. So easy though, you can erase ones you didn't want to! There is no 'undo' button... once they're gone, they're gone. One more feature I fell in love with is the suppressed flash. It allows you to take pictures of cityscapes, sunsets, etc., where there is a subject in front. I took a picture of my wife in front of one of those fabulous Key West sunsets, and it turned out incredibly. I took another of her in front of downtown San Francisco at night, and it too came out awesome. I have read people suggesting the AC adapter, but I see no reason to buy one. A full 128MB card can be downloaded into your computer within 2 minutes, maybe less. The camera, when turned on, automatically opens the image software, but several times in that process, my system has malfunctioned (Win98). I remedied it by simply opening the FinePix viewer first, then turning on the camera. Pictures pop right up, then I select them all, and drag them to another folder. Since pictures on a Smartmedia card are numbered from 0001 to the last, the folder should be empty, otherwise the computer tries to replace like-named pictures. As soon as they're moved, turn the camera off! It's that simple. DO buy some rechargeable batteries. Digital cameras can eat up disposable ones fast. This Fuji 2800 camera is the best buy for your buck, hands down.
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Summary: Fine Pix sometimes
Review: I am still learning all the aspects of my Fugi...and in most ways I have been very pleased. Picture clarity and the zoom is very good. I have noticed some trouble with reds and oranges coming out too dark. I am very dissapointed that what you want to capture while zooming is rarely what comes out, due to the delay in pressing the button and it taking the picture. Maybe with practice that will improve, I hope so. Well, after spending more time with my camera, I am now able to give it higher ratings. If you follow their directions about taking zoom photos, you can capture what you are trying to without missing much in the process. Pictures are clear and sharp. I still think reds and oranges are a bit off, but overall the camera is excellent.
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Summary: Super Value and Great Pictures
Review: This camera is perfect for the amatuer photographer who would like to own a nice camera that takes beautiful photographs with stunning clarity!
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Summary: Flash Card by Simple Tech
Review: The camera works fine other than in low light conditions where the image isn't visible in either the viewfinder or the lcd display. Don't make the mistake I made and buy a FLASH CARD. I thought this would increase the memory and it did not fit this camera. If you want memory purchase a memory card. Since I opened the card package and returned it, I'm sure it will be a costly mistake. If I were to do it all over again I would buy the Fuji 4800 for a few bucks more.
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Summary: Great product .......but
Review: I have had the camera for 6 weeks and have taken several hundred photos, mainly of the America's Cup qualifying races in Auckland.
One reviewer complained that the power button and shutter are easy to confuse. I fully agree, and have lost a couple of action shots through the confusion. My biggest problem is with the physical strength of the camera. I was taking pictures from a boat, and the lens gently nudged a bulkhead. This was a gentle nudge, but enough to dislodge the lens, which fell off completely when I shut the power down. The Fuji distributor in Auckland was fantastic, and repaired the camera promptly, and without charge. It was not the first time they had seen the problem, so be warned! I have a 64meg card, and this is more than enough.
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Summary: Fuji Finepix 2800 - Incredible! I am impressed and sold!
Review: After having been used to manual professional cameras (35 mm and medium format) and being very picky about results, I was extremely reluctant towards digital photography. However, this little camera has not disappointed me. It does everything extremely well that it is said to do, and I was stunned by the beautiful results when viewing them on my computer.Now I wonder why I had not done this sooner. I can highly recommend this little powerhouse to anybody who is doubtful about switching to digital. I have, and there are NO REGRETS! Go for it!
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Summary: What an awsome Camera
Review: I was wowed by what this camera can do for the price. It is so easy to use. It is a bit finiky over procedure to download the pictures but that is all that I have found to be hard to deal with. It is so small and light wieght which is good. It takes some great 60sec movies, and the sound that it captures is great. I would recommend that you buy an extra memory card so that you can take lots of pictures. This camera is good for the beginer to the semi advanced. You can definetly grow with this camera. Mac users will love the ease of this camera. The best camera that I found for the price.
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Summary: Good until something went wrong
Review: I bought this camera before my trip to Australia because I really liked how it felt and the quality of the pictures it took. Everything was going pretty well with it until suddenly, it can't take a good picture when the flash is required. Something is wrong with the sensor. So now any evening or night time pictures are extremely fuzzy or blurry which really puts a damper on how I can document this trip.
I have a couple other problems with it:
*It is a little larger than most cameras, and even though it is pretty light and the zoom compacts down pretty far and it is comfortable to use, it is cumbersome in the fact that it doesn't fit easily into a small purse, and it is hard to find a small case for it.
*It isn't the easiest camera to use, so if you want people to take a picture of you, often times you will find yourself explaining the camera and how it works for a few minutes before you finally get around to taking the photo.
*If you are using the higher quality mode on the camera, it often takes awhile for the camera to save it, which is annoying because you have to wait before you can take another.
But a plus of this camera is how well it captures light and color. It can take pictures of sunsets that are absolutely amazing. The camera makes the sunset look ten times prettier than it actually was.
If there wasn't something wrong with the flash on this camera I would probably give it a four, maybe even five stars, but I am fored to wait until I return home from this country until i can get it fixed, which is really annoying.
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Summary: Great camera
Review: I just got it last week and have taken more than a hundred pictures. Beautiful color recovery and nice focus. Some problems at low light condition for view finder but fine for a digital camera since you can take as much as you want and delete them if you do not like them. Flash gives good compensation in dark, so the quality of picture is not affected. You need to press the shutter half way down to focus but it is a nice feature for me since if the lense is covered in the photography mode, the camera does not try to focus on nothing which bothers me a lot when I was using a olympus with aoto focus. One of my friend who just got a SONY S85 highly appraised it since the color and image are much better from fuji 2800 with ... less on the price tag. Highly recommend for people who want to get a nice point and shoot digital camera.
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