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Summary: great little camera
Review: Bought this little camera for Christmas gift for girlfriend. Its perfect, we both love it. And take it everywhere. I also got a 128 Meg memory card. It will hold several hundred pictures at lower resolution or about 100 at high res. (we keep it at high resolution). Very happy with 8x10 prints. And all web or PC viewing of photos is very good. This is not a top end camera, but for point and shoot, great results! I highly recommend this camera. The software that comes with it is also quite good, I ran it under windows 98 and now windows XP, with no problems, and the batch save and batch resize options are great for bringing 2meg pix down to 50k jpeg's for uploading to the web server. Enjoy. - Bob
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Summary: Super for First Time User
Review: I delayed purchasing a digital camera for many months due to my fear of buying the wrong one. This one has been a true joy! The 16MB Smartmedia card and the battery charger are nice extras. The menu takes a little practice, but you get used to it. For an inexpensive point and shoot, it has many extra features.
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Summary: Great Camer
Review: This is my first digital camera and I am quite pleased with the results thus far. The camera is very easy to use and takes great pictures. The only complaint that I have about the camera is the lens cover. The cover needs to be fully "clicked" open in order to take a picture and it is very easily "unclicked". This requires you to slide the cover open again...a little annoying but tolerable.
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Summary: Pure and Simple
Review: This is an excellent digital camera. Simple to use. Exceptional picture quality.A few minor caveats: Two step on/off is a pain. Battery compartment wants to open during certain functions. Bottom line: Light, easy, great results!
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Summary: Great 2.0MP Camera
Review: This is my first digital camera. I have a Canon EOS 35mm for traditional photography. I wanted a 2MP digital with a decent optical zoom, mostly for point and shoot situations. This is a great camera for the {money] that I paid. You can get a 2MP for less if you opt for digital zoom vs. optical. One point to make is that your image quality is based on the optics. Digital zoom can not match optical zoom without sacrificing image quality. That is the main reason that I bought this camera. It has a 3x optical zoom and also is a nice small package. After having it for only 4 days, so far, I would highly recommend this camera. With 2MP you can even print out some pretty decent pics. I have found it very easy to use. The USB file transfer is very speedy. I used an Olympus Camedia 2MP for work with the serial cable attachment and it was s l o w (we got a Zio card reader). Fuji includes for free the USB cable (w/ driver software), a 16MB smartmedia card, and 1700maH NiMH rechargeable batteries with a charger. Fantastic! Of course, there is also a viewer program included, but I prefer to use Photoshop. In the short time I've had it, power consumption seems nice and low on the two batteries. Again, much better than the Olympus Camedia that uses 4 AAs. The movie mode is cool-- No sound, but I'll use a video cam for video. I think this camera has got to be the best in its class.
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Summary: Great camera!
Review: I'm a novice with digital cameras, but found this one very easy to use. I didn't even have to read the manual to find out how to set everything, just played around a little and found everything. It is very easy to download the photos to your computer and they download very fast. Just plug it in and there they are. The free software isn't that good, I'd recommend buying different software for playing with the pictures. The batteries died pretty quickly the first time I used them, but after their second charge, they seem to be lasting a long time and I always have the display on. My only complaint about the camera is how bright the flast makes things. The images have a whiteness about them when taken with the flash. It isn't unbearable, just minor, but it still could be better. Overall though this camera is easy to use, works fast and takes very nice pictures.
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: Wow! This camera is awesome. I just got it yesterday. I love it. Great picture quality, great zoom, great camera. There is a little bit of a delay between the time you press the shutter and when it actually takes the picture, but it's not bad. The movie mode is pretty cool. It might cost more than the beginner wants to pay, but it's worth it.. If you're a beginner, go get this camera. I didn't even read the manual, and within minutes I was taking pictures. Oh, by the way, you might want to get another set of NiMH batteries and a charger, because you sure don't want to use alkaline, eats them like they're nothing.
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Summary: One overlooked feature
Review: In all of the reviews of this digital camera, no one has mentioned the fact that this camera will double as a webcam. Being on a ship, I have emailed some video clips with the movie mode to my wife and she thought they were good quality as well. I bought this camera in a shady electronics store in Singapore and although got ripped off on the price, here on Amazon you are getting a deal. I recommend purchasing a larger smartmedia card, but all the reviews of good battery life and excellent photos are true. I would also like to say that my camera seems to be durable, I have had it training in the field and it still works well... This is truly a great point and shoot camera.
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Summary: a good balance
Review: This camera seems to be a good balance of features, size, & most importantly money spent. It gets the job done! It comes with rechargeable batties & a charger. The didgital zoom is useless for me but I like the optical zoom at 3x. I could have spent more money but why? This thing is just perfect for me.... But right now I'm happy. I use the macro mode a lot for tanking pictures of my aquarium. I love NOT having to go to get my photos developed (does anybody really print photos anymore?). With 35mm film it always seemed that half the pictures I got develpoed either came out bad or there was something else wrong with them. Now if I take a bad photo you know right away (from the display screen) - You just erase & take it again.
Just remember you can always print the good ones.
...
Steve
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Summary: So easy a monkey could do it.
Review: My wife and I read lots of reviews and talked with several people before buying our camera. We discovered that the biggest problem with digital cameras besides the fact that they all eat alkaline batteries is educating yourself before you buy so you don't get one that you'll regret later. If you are like my wife and I you don't want to do a lot of thinking or reading to get going with taking pictures once you buy. This camera took all of a minute to master the functions and we did that in the store before buying it. It is as simple as pointing and clicking. I am amazed at how good the pictures come out everytime. The 16 mb smart media card that comes with it has proven to be plenty of storage space for us. I upload to the computer every 20 shots and thats a lot of pictures for us. ( We've never been big picture takers til now) For the money this is a best buy. You'll need to call Fuji for the AC adapter because we found out that its hard to find. Like us, you'll notice you put nose prints on the display screen but all that we looked at had this same problem. My HP 1115 photosmart printer and this 2600Zoom Finepix get along great and the quality of the prints are excellent. I haven't had any problmes with the camera matching up to windows 98se on my computer. The camera has a quality feel to it and its small enough that it fits in my wifes purse easily. You won't regret this camera if you purchase it. Its great. The first charge got us over 275 Pictures before needing recharged. You'll want to get an extra set of batteries so you won't have to wait the five hours or so to recharge and you'll have to buy a case, but other than these things and the A/C adapter the camera is pretty much complete with all you'll need. Storing pictures to a floppy is a breeze and to a CD is slightly harder but it can also be done easily. The resolution of the 20 second video mode is a bit disappointing but I found this to be true with all of the digital cameras. I'd truthfully give this Fuji 2600Zoom Finepix camera a 6 star rating if I could, and 10 stars for ease of use. Its awesome through and through. Fuji has a real winner here.
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