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Summary: 2650 Camera
Review: I agree with another review I read, "Don't think, just buy it." As an amateur photographer who owns Nikon, Petax's, etc., this has to be one of the best values ever. I use it personally at home and for work. It's small and takes good pictures. I will probably never use a snap shot film camera again. If you are looking for a good digital camera, at a decent price, consider this one.
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Summary: Great camera for the price - create sliceshows on VCD
Review: I just bought it from amazon.com at a price of [money] dollars, free S/H and a free 32M XD card.
There are some minor disadvantages: poor movies & LCD in low light condition, but it's not primarily for movies & he view finder can be used in the low light condition instead of the LCD.There are lots of advantages:
- great price for a camera w/ 2MP, 3x optical zoom
- xd card uses less batteries
- great, sharp pictures
- macro mode for close up pictures
- easy to use menu
- SOFTWARE (Imagemixer) TO CREATE SLICESHOW VCD DISK and you can play it on your DVD player. Similare software could cost you 25-40 dollars. You can put several sliceshows in one single CD, each sliceshow can contain thoundsands of pictures. I don't need a photo printer. Just keep the pictures on CDs, watch them on TV, and print some of them at COSTCO only when needed.
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Summary: Time To Dump The Advantix
Review: My husband and I have been very happy with our Canon ELPH Advantix film camera for the past 3 years, but we've wanted to make the switch to digital for some time because the cost of film, developing and photos on disc is getting out of hand. We've been waiting until prices came down enough that we could afford a digital camera that would have comparable print quality to a film camera. We got the Fuji FinePix 2650 here at Amazon.com with a bonus 32MB memory card and free shipping, and we're really impressed with it. The Fuji camera is just as small as the ELPH (though a bit thicker, probably due to the LCD screen). Installing the software and hardware drivers to our Windows XP machine couldn't have been any easier, and uploading the pictures is as simple as plugging one end of the USB cable into the camera and plugging the other end into the PC---turn on the camera and the software starts automatically, loading thumbnails of all your pictures. My husband was particularly interested in how well the camera would work in macro (ultra close-up) mode; you can't get any closer than about 4" from the subject, but if you need to zoom even bigger you can do that on the PC after uploading the picture. I had the camera set for highest resolution, optical zoom, macro mode, and I was able to zoom in to about 300% on the uploaded picture before I noticed any deterioration in the image. Because we were also concerned about getting picture quality that would be comparable to our ELPH, I did a test by taking a picture of our baby at a distance of about 2 feet, then I uploaded the picture to the PC and zoomed in on the baby's face to fill an entire 8 1/2 x 11" sheet; on our color inkjet, using normal paper, the picture quality was excellent. The picture came out clear and crisp, and our more typical 4x6 prints should be even better---I'll bet that if I print them on photo paper they'll be indistinguishable from regular photos. I tested the camera indoors in low light, indoors in medium light, and outdoors in sunlight, and the pictures came out great in all three settings. The LCD screen doesn't work in low light conditions, but there's a regular viewfinder too so I just used that and then looked at the picture after it was taken. I really like being able to immediately see whether or not the picture came out, and being able to immediately delete it if I'm not happy with it. You can even zoom in on the stored image in the LCD viewfinder of the camera to confirm that the picture is totally in focus before deciding to keep it or delete it. No more paying to develop bad pictures!! The 32MB card holds 50 pictures on the highest resolution setting, and the camera comes with a 16MB card that holds 25 pictures at the highest resolution setting. These cards are a little bigger than a penny and can be stored (with pictures on them) outside of the camera until you're ready to upload to the PC. So when one card gets full, we'll just pop in the other one. And of course, the cards can be erased and re-used over and over again, so I doubt we'll ever need to buy any more memory for this camera. Even on vacation, I doubt we took 75 photos that were 'keepers'. The camera also has a full-motion video feature, and it can be used as a webcam too. I doubt we'll use the full-motion video since we already have a digital videocam, but the webcam feature will be handy for those cyber-visits with distant relations. At a [low cost], this camera will pay for itself in film, developing and photo discs within about 6 months in our home (we have kids, so we take a lot of pictures). I recommend this camera very highly; if you've been waiting to make the switch, it's time!
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Summary: Great Camera, Great Price
Review: This is an excellent 2 megapixel digital camera. I have had it for a few days, and I am very impressed with it. The quality is excellent; I can print large pictures without having them pixelated. After the picture is taken, you can pan and zoom into different parts of the picture, directly from the camera. The included software makes saving and printing your pictures simpler than ever. It is very easy to adjust the flash settings in different lighting conditions; the camera can do this, but I like to adjust the settings to make the picture the way I like it. The camera uses XD memory, not to be confused with SD. XD memory is a fairly new technology and is not compatable with most printers that print directly from the card. However, unless you have a printer that prints directly from a memory card this is not a problem. Overall, this is a great camera that I thoroughly enjoy. This would make a perfect gift for the techno-geek or shutter-bug on your Christmas list.
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Summary: Great, Inexpensive Digital Camera
Review: I had been shopping for a digital camera for a long time. I came across the Fuji Finepix 2650 and saw how great a bargain it was. It has a 3x Optical Zoom, 2 Mega Pixals, and is light and compact. The pictures it takes are excellent quality. I can't tell the difference between those pictures and pictures taken by a regualr film camera. If you want to print pictures that are 11 x 14 or larger you might want to consider a 3 or 4 Mega Pixal camera, but for 8 x 10 and smaller this camera does just fine. If you are looking for a great buy on a great digital camera, this is it.
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Summary: Think carefully before buying this !
Review: Here's are the positives,
1. Its dirt cheap and beats all its competition in price.
2. Has 3X optical zoom.
3. Uses inexpensive & easy to find NiMH AA batteries.
4. Light weight.
5. Downloading pics on Win XP is very easy, you don't need to buy any AC adaptor or card reader. Included cable works great.
6. The manual is easy to read and understand.
7. The menus on the camera itself are very easy to use and navigate.
8. Nice, sharp & well focused daytime pics. Here are some negatives, 1. Too thick to put in any pocket, except maybe a big winter coat.
2. Uses a propreitary and expensive xD card. This adds to cost and makes tougher to recommend it.
3. Lens has very slow startup time and takes long to retract back. I feel its slower than even 2600.
4. Poor low light performance.
5. Mostly the white balance/ brightness is wrong, have to fiz each picture in Photoshop.
6. There's no TV output on this, what a shame !
7. The movies recorded don't have sound and are not so great
8. Cheap and low resolution LCD screen.
9. Fuji cut too many features compared to 2600 on this, smaller LCd size, no NiMH battery/charges included, slow startup times etc.
10. Poor build quality. Last yr's 2600 failed due to many things like stuck lens and battery leaked charge. 2650 seems likely to have same troubles. Wish Fuji had made this thinner by about 0.7", used a standard Compact Flash card instead of propreitary xD card, had a TV out, better white balance and quality control. My 2650 is going back to store. I had rather buy a Canon or Nikon. If you don't mind being stuck with a dead camera on a trip and don't mind above shortcomings its a good buy. Overall if you on a tight budget or a first time buyer you can go for this. Otherwise look for something worth your time and money.
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Summary: A great value in a 2MP camera
Review: I have recently purchased the Finepix 2650. I am very impressed with its image quality. A friend borrowed it and took some terrific pictures with it as well. With a 3X optical zoom and 2MP CCD this camera is a great bargain.
It does have some drawbacks. The LCD is hard to see in low light conditions. The plastic case feels cheap. The menus are initially tricky to learn, but once learned they do not seem too difficult. I recommend this camera for those looking for a good digital snapshot camera.
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Summary: Good value, poor in darkness
Review: Brief and to-the-point: - Great value (sub $200)for 2MP with 20sec movie, 3X zoom, and more memory than most. Features compare very favorable among other similar cameras. - Cannot see anything in a dark restaurant, club, etc.. Basically, I aim and click. If the pic doesn't come out right, I re-take it -- so far, not a huge deal. - A little bulky, so if you plan to carry it around alot, it won't fit in your pocket. All in all, a great cheap camera for taking fun pictures.
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Summary: First Digital camera
Review: After four weeks of looking at Digital Cameras, and geting as much information, I decided to buy a FujiFilm FinePix 2650 Digital Camera. I took it out of the box read the directions, Down loaded the software, and I was taking pictures. I down loaded the pictures,printed them out on photo paper, and they were perfect. What more could any one want from a camera at this price. If you are wondering what amount of pixels to get in a digital camera, the manager of one camera shop told me that for the normal person shooting home photographs and not blowing them up past 8X10 you need no more than the 2650. After using it and down loading pictures, sending them by mail and printing them and everything coming out perfect, there is no other camera needed. I have also wrote a review on Epions.com if you need more information on this camera, and it works perfect with XP.
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Summary: poor in low light poor software good lens cheap
Review: Good things about this camera:
1. CHEAP
2. very lightweight (though not particularly small)
3. Nice quality lens
Bad Things:
1. In even moderately low light (like a room with windows on a nice day) the camera still needs the flash. Without it, the pictures come off blury and off color (even with white balance adjusted). Expect to take ALL indoor pics with a flash -- ditto for outdoor at dusk.
2. Very little in the way of manual settings. If you switch to "manual" you can choose from some preset whitebal adjustments (e.g. incondescent, flourescent) and make some minor adjustments to whatever the camera judges is the best exposure. BUT none of these settings is available if you want to use the self timer.
3. MEMORY IS VERY EXPENSIVE. This camera uses Fuji (and Olympus) new "XD" memory. It's smaller and not particularly fast. It also costs three times what regular digital camera memory (FLASH) costs. So tack that [X] premium back on the price. I got an amazing price on the camera with coupons and such, but I'm still returning mine because sometimes I'd like to be able to take a good picture without that flash look. (You can manually disable the flash, but the pics just don't look good without it).
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