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Summary: It's a great camera...but only in theory
Review: I bought the Finepix 2800 this evening and I am returning it tomorrow morning. This camera seems great -- affordable, awesome optical zoom, and compact -- but there are more than a few problems with it.First of all, if you're in a room with soft lighting, the LCD is pitch black. I tried adjusting the LCD brightness, but it didn't help. You need to be in a VERY well-lit area to even be able to see what you're taking a picture of, otherwise (I kid you not) it's pitch black. You end up getting pieces of people's heads instead of a full scene shot. The software installation went just fine, except when I connected the camera to my Pentium 4 running Windows 2000Pro, my computer crashed. It didn't just crash, though -- it locked down so I couldn't end programs to properly shut down my computer. In case battery life is a concern, it's important to note that the FinePix 2800 runs on 4 AA batteries. Fuji sells rechargable mAh batteries, but they're VERY expensive ($60 for a 4-pack), and I don't even know how much the charger costs. I was also disappointed with the bundle that comes with the camera. You get a neck strap -- woo hoo! -- but no case. I had a lot of trouble finding a case that fit the camera, since the zoom lens bulges out. I frowned when I saw the camera only came with one-time-use AA batteries, and I frowned more when I saw there wasn't an automatic lens cap. Argh! This camera just didn't cut it for me.
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Summary: Fuji Finepix 2800
Review: What a beautiful little digital camera. Does everything I could wish for. The EVF is not as bad as some would have you think and I soon got used to it. I found it excellent in almost any conditions that one would be wanting a digital camera for. In any lower light photography, I would be more inclined to use a standard SLR on a tripod as a larger diaphram opening would be necessary. Digital cameras and Film cameras each have their place in photography and neither does exactly what the other is capable of, so don't expect your digital to do everything.
The 6 times zoom is the best I have seen and even the farthest away object in the photo is displayed in all it's detail.
The voice captioning is another neat feature that allows you save your images with their own talking display. Fantastic.
I have no complaints about this camera and can recommend it to anyone who is contemplating buying a digital camera. It is my second digital camera so I knew what I was looking for when I bought it.
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Summary: Excellent Camera.....Good For the mONEY!!!
Review: Hi, this camera is my second one. My first was Powershot A20. This camera takes good picture. The color is a bit better using this camera then the A20. This camera capture true brilliant color from an object. Overall performance is a good camera. The movie function is great too. The zoom is amazing. 6x optical and 2.5x digital. The design is very compact. Every eye stop and ask question about what kind of camera it is....cause it's so sexy. You can hold it real well. The lens cover is like a lens cover for camcorder, in seperate entity. It doesn't cover itself when you turn off the camera. You have to put it manually. It uses 4 AA batteries. You may want to have NiMH rechargeable sets for this camera. I have 4 sets my self. The 16MB SmartMedia comes from the kit seems to capture enough pictures in it's low resolution. Personally, I like using the lowest my self. I don't like to print them, that's my I bought this camera. Eventhough the camera has a normal quality for the VGA-mode (lowest resolution), it still delivers Excellent pictures. You don't have to go high in resolution if you don't have too. I do still have someting that I don't like about this camera: 1. The LCD is too dark. My A2 does a better job on this one. Eventhough only 1.5", A20 seems to g\have more pixels on the LCD part of the camera. 2. This camera is lack of manual settings. With Powershot A20, you can go using a few effects like black and white, and more white balance setting choices. Although this camera doesn't come with those features, it still comes with white balance functions. It's just limited. That's about it. 95% of the time, I love this camera because of it's results, sexy look, and small size. You gotta love this camera. It's nice, not that expensive, and it takes excellent pitures.
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Summary: Great Buy
Review: I've only had my camera a few days but am very pleased with what I got for the price. I was looking for decent picture quality and optical zoom. At 2.1 megapixels the picture quality has been great and the 6X optical zoom is the equivalent of a 38-228mm film camera zoom, more than flexible enough for most situations. The menus are simple and intuitive. Installation of the software went fine on my Windows XP machine at home, though the instructions are a bit fuzzy (probably a bad Japanese translation) However, when I tried to install it on my laptop at work, I finally found something that would crash Windows 2000 Professional when trying to plug the camera in in PC camera mode. Haven't got that one figured out yet. If I have one criticism, it is an echo of an earlier reviewer, the EVF and the LCD are more or less useless when shooting in low light conditions.
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Summary: "Best Bang for the Buck"
Review: This small clumsy looking camera is not what I just described.
Unless you have extremely large hands and fingers this is the DC for you. It not only comes with a 2.5X digital zoom, but a 6X optical zoom. The camera is very user friendly. The indoor digital photography is somewhat problematic. Images thru the viewfinder and LCD screen are dark unless in very well lit area. So you have to guess that your subjects are ready for their pic to be taken. Then again it's a digital camera, "if ya don't like the picture after reviewing it, just erase the frame/s and reshoot another shot.
I would recommend this camera to anyone in the DC market, that don't have 800 to 1000 dollars to spend on a higher mega pixel camera. This one fits my budget and needed camera features.
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Summary: Great Camera
Review: I love the camera, except for one thing, the LCD and the view finder screens does not light up very well (people show up as dark images, and I had the room light up with 7x100 Watt lights), when you take pictures indoors. Outdoors it works fine. It like shooting in the dark when you inside, the pictures on the hand turn out great....
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Summary: Fuji FinePix 2800 Digital Camera
Review: I must be the only reviewer who has actually bought one of these - let alone used one - because despite the claims of previous reviewers, the camera is not made out of metal, but silver painted plastic! Despite this fact, the camera is VERY nice to use: it is comfortable in the hand, and produces sharp pictures with a crisp, clean color balance.
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Summary: A 4.5+ Digital
Review: The Fuji 2800 is the smallest 2.1 meg. DC and has a 6X lens. The ergonomics are perfect provided you use your third finder to push the button for photos and not your index finger (which naturally falls over the On/Off button). My wife, the actual "giftee" is technically challenged. I needed a DC with simple to use "point and shoot" technology and this one delivers in SPADES! She is thrilled at the fact that it is NOT a rangefinder (she cuts off heads othewise) and that the screen is bright. Downloading is easy and Fuji appears quite committed in that they have a special user-only web site that is oriented to their customer needs. I am very pleased...
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Summary: Strong Competitor.
Review: This is my first Fuji experience and it comes in the fast growing, high quality, 'ultrazoom' category. For most users, these cameras will be perfect, as they offer excellent resolution (a measurement of digital photo density that determines how much the photo can be enlarged before it becomes too grainy), good optics (quality of the lenses) and very powerful zoom lenses that allow for, well,.....zooming. All of them need larger memory cards & separate card readers to allow for easy download of the pictures into the computer (easily purchased and reasonably priced), but strictly speaking, they are ready to go out of the box. This Fuji is especially attractive with its gleaming, sturdy all steel body. It has all glass optics and a wonderful 6x optical zoom. It is also smaller than you might suppose and feels balanced in the hand. Controls are excellent and allow for lots of user input, or none at all if you prefer to put it on 'autopilot'. The main competitors would be the Minolta Dimage 5 and the Olympus 700. Take your pick, as they are all awesome when compared with anything available even a year ago!!
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Summary: Fuji 2800Zoom - Pleased
Review: (...) I liked the fact that it looks like a camera and that it is quite small, compact and light weight. I did some research, but honestly not that much. I was interested in optical Zoom, and the 6x optical zoom is what made me buy the Fuji 2800Zoom. Most of the other digital cameras in my price range only had 3x Optical zoom. So far I've taken at least 50 pictures and I am very pleased. The software installed easily and worked the first time on both of my computers, Win98 and Win2000 Professional. The only problem I have is that the on/off button is right where the 'take a picture' button is on other cameras, which means that I have turned the camera off, instead of taking a picture on at least 4 or 5 times. I also like the fact that it has both a small eye viewfinder like a regular camera plus the eye viewfinder is also in color. Plus it has the LCD screen. The eye viewfinder is very useful in bright sunlight where you might not be able to see the LCD screen. You can change the LCD brightness also. Overall I am quite pleased with this camera. The Fuji 2800Zoom has 2 megapixels, which at first I thought might be a drawback since 5 megapixel cameras are now available, but now I see that the photos are very clear and sharp at the "1M Normal" setting, so that is not an issue. The camera allows you to change the settings for picture quality. There are 8 settings. Naturally the higher the setting the fewer pictures you can record on the card. The lesser the setting the more you can record. But at the Normal setting, on a 16Meg card you can still get about 50 pictures of very good quality. If you need more you can buy a higher meg card to store more photos. That's it, have fun.
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