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Summary: Extremely easy even for a beginner
Review: After doing our research, we bought this camera for our 13 year old daughter. After only 1 week, we are fully versed in its many features, and are now sending high quality photos to friends and relatives all over. The USB connection is fast and easy, and all the features make this the best buy for the money! Everything about the camera is aimed at making even novices like us comfortable using it, and it is small enough to go anywhere, but large enough to feel comfortable in your hands when shooting. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Good all-round, but fragile...
Review: First digital camera I purchased, good all-round features and easy to use. Quality pictures, good autonomy on batteries, and ease of transfer of pictures to Mac or PC were strong points. Only gripes were slow start-up process, and a complex self-standby mode (after a few minutes without use) that makes it necessary to re-start completely (close hood, switch off, open hood, switch on). MAJOR problem: it is very fragile (don't know about competition on this, but obviously not perceived as an issue by reviewers or editors..?), and no protective case supplied. It got knocked in a padded bag, and this split open the front cover (holding on a few flimsy screws) and split a major internal circuit. $150 to replace the part, plus labor! Peeping inside, it is just a stack of printed circuits stretching to the very edge of the housing, any knock will probably disable the product. The weight of 4 AA cells in this light case probably does not help either. Pity, otherwise a good value product.
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Summary: It takes pictures, but you can't see them
Review: For this being my first digital camera, I am disappointed. The preview and downloading switch gets jamed. I am currently sending it in to the manufacturer for repair. I have only had it for 2 months.
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Summary: Some things the manual doesn't tell you
Review: I agree with the other reviews. This is a great camera. It comes with some great software that the manual does NOT tell you about. I only found out by browsing through the files on the CD. You get all this for free: Adobe PhotoDeluxe (much better than the software that the manual tells you to install!), Adobe ActiveShare (another great product that lets you do cool things like make slide shows, postcards etc.), and Adobe PDFWriter, which lets you create Adobe Acrobat documents. Look for setup.exe files on the CD and run them! Why Fuji don't tell people about these things is a mystery....
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Summary: Great camera!!
Review: I am very pleased with this camera. The picture quality is very good, software is easy to use and setup and camera settings are simple. I also purchased rechargeable batterys with a charger and a 64MB Smart media card. I highly recommend the combination. I have used a Sandisk card reader and while it is a nice toy it is not necessary for this camera.I have also used a Kodak DC265 and a Canon S100 camera. I feel that the Fujifilm is a much better value.
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Summary: Poor to non-existant repair service
Review: I bought this camera last September and fell in love with it immediately. Great quality pictures and easy to use. HOWEVER .. after 2 weeks of use I turned it on one day and it "froze up" -- nothing would move after that. Went through the ordeal of contacting customer service - which advised taking it to one of their local repair shops. The one they specified is one with a great reputaion in our area. After two weeks they told me that the parts were back ordered through Fuji and not available in the US. Weeks went by and no parts. The first of November I requested that the camera be replaced instead of repaired. As of the 9th of December still no word. I have owned this camera for three months and except for two weeks it hasn't been operational. It doesnt't matter how good a product is, things occasionally go wrong, and if there aren't repair parts avavilable or a company willing to stand behind their products - the quality doesn't mean squat. Not only do I not recommend this particular camera, but I will never buy a product from Fuji again.
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Summary: Fuji FinePix 2400 Zoom
Review: I found on receiving my camera that I could not download the software on my computer. The model was not one of the choices to choose from that I bought. Therefore, I did'nt use my camera for quit sometime. When the portable printers came out for digital I bought one and started to use my camera. Unfortunately, the color is not what I expected and it seems to have to much red in it. Sometimes I also get red eye even when the eye reduction is on. I haven't used it outdoors yet. Maybe I will get better picture quality then. I would like to try to reach a customer service department so that maybe I could find out what I'm doing wrong, but I haven't had any luck in doing that either. I suggest if you get a digital camera don't wait a long time to use it
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Summary: I will be trading mine in for another....
Review: I have had mine for about a year now and was originally impressed, but over time have become increasingly irritated. I agree with the other two posters about their complaints, which have become my biggest issues. The lens cover if moved ever so slightly will shut the camera down and by the time you move it back and take the shot, you've lost your picture. My second issue is also the time it takes between hitting the button and it actually snapping the shot. It seems forever and with toddlers they've done moved on and the picture is actually of them moving away. It seems that once you hit the button, it would snap that instance, but that is not the case. Also, by the time you turn the camera on, open the lens cover, wait for the lens to come out and snap, the subjects (in my case toddlers) are done. lol~ I have lost many, many good shots over the past year and the time issue is my biggest. I need more of a one shot camera that just snaps, no delays etc.
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Summary: I will be trading mine in for another....
Review: I have had mine for about a year now and was originally impressed, but over time have become increasingly irritated. I agree with the other two posters about their complaints, which have become my biggest issues. The lens cover if moved ever so slightly will shut the camera down and by the time you move it back and take the shot, you've lost your picture. My second issue is also the time it takes between hitting the button and it actually snapping the shot. It seems forever and with toddlers they've done moved on and the picture is actually of them moving away. It seems that once you hit the button, it would snap that instance, but that is not the case. Also, by the time you turn the camera on, open the lens cover, wait for the lens to come out and snap, the subjects (in my case toddlers) are done. lol~ I have lost many, many good shots over the past year and the time issue is my biggest. I need more of a one shot camera that just snaps, no delays etc.
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Summary: Very good camera for the money
Review: I have had the 2400 for about a month now, and I must say I am very happy with it. I am a hobby photographer with a fairly expensive and extensive 35mm SLR gear which I still use a lot, but for the family-type snaps and when I really want to travel light, the 2400 is all I take. It takes really good pictures in most situations, and it is dead easy to handle. It is also small enough that you really do take it with you most anywhere. The lens seem very sharp and the exposure is right on most of the time. It does eat batteries, but that is not a problem if you get rechargeable ones. It is completeley manual with very limited ways for you to affect it manually. Shutter lag and focus lag is a bit slow, but something you get with this kind of camera. There is no way that I know of to mount a filter in front of the lens, but that is something most people would not miss. In bright outdoors light and in dark situations it is hard to impossible to see what is on the LCD, but then you always have the viewfinder. The problem with the viewfinder is that it doesn't show everything that will be on the photo you take (only 80% or so?). Buy a bag to keep the 2400 in (I got a LowePro bag to hang on my belt). Get some rechargeable AA batteries (I have 12). Get some memory (buy 64mb or 128mb cards). And as with any camera, using a tripod will increase the likelihood of you getting a sharp picture. Get a small tabletop tripod that you carry with you - it will give you better pictures. I cannot really say anything about the quality of prints from the 2400 since I hardly ever print any of my snaps, but judging from the few prints I've made, I'd say you can print up to 8x10 from most frames (if you shoot at 1600x1200 with little compression) with good quality.
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